Life on Graeme's

Twitter the productivity killer

Fri, 11 May 2012 09:49:41 +0000

Nothing can destroy my productivity the way Twitter can. There are a lot of potential distractions, especially the multitude available over the internet, but Twitter’s nature makes it far more distracting than web browsing, email or even other social networks.

Risk and rationality, investment and life

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:09:33 +0000

Its fairly obvious that people are not, except for a few analytical souls, rational about risk: they worry obsessively about small risks and ignore ones that matter, and they are often no more rational about investing.

Against women

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:46:38 +0000

Stumbling and Mumbling lists seven things that are wrong with women. While some will no doubt be offended, can someone explain how it is any worse than the common suggestions that men are worse at communicating, multi-tasking etc., as Flip Chart Fairy Tales points out. In addition, there is the logical link between what women are supposed to be better than men at, and what women are supposed to be worse than men at.

Moving to Galle

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:51:08 +0000

After over five years of living in Colombo (the capital of Sri Lanka) we have had enough and are moving to Galle. Colombo has become less and less pleasant to live in, we are not quite ready to go back to Britain, and we really like Galle.

School is hell

Sat, 17 May 2008 12:47:59 +0000

I never enjoyed school, but I enjoy, and have always enjoyed, learning. I would undoubtedly have done better if I had been simply taught to read and given a large pile of books, rather than being sent to school — even the extremely good school I went to.

I have a No TV too

Sat, 10 May 2008 10:16:04 +0000

Like Oliver Steele and his family, we have a No TV. I have had one so long that I find it hard to imagine life without it, so I find it harder to assess the benefits than he does.

Spreading greed

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:26:54 +0000

According to economist Robert H Frank, economics students become more selfish as a result of spending years immersed in the study of economic theory that is based on the idea that people act selfishly (or “rationally”, as economists describe it.

What effect does living in a neo-liberal capitalist society that is based on exactly the same assumptions have on people?