Week 279: Economists Agree

A week of divesting from US tech, racing horses, big migrations, bad markets, union rep training, my mental wellbeing, tomatoes, and the latest Bridgerton.

Posted on by Rowan Manning.
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  • I’ve been trying to divest as much as possible from US-owned tech lately so I started trying to migrate Yeehaw from Render to my little EU-owned VPS. Because I’m me, I ended up starting to rebuild the whole thing with some newer Slack features and it’s been fun.

  • I ate several tomatoes and didn’t suffer from terrible shits 🎉 they weren’t high high risk. I’ve missed tomatoes and now I have all the ingredients I need for a pizza. The reintroductions will continue, next up is either soy or some kind of bean so I can nudge myself back towards a more vegetarian diet.

  • Work is an equal blend of very fun (big migration, getting to learn a lot) and intensely infuriating (top-down decision-making, AI). I wish the market was better and contained more jobs where I could work 9–5 and take 50 days of holiday.

  • On Friday I attended a couple of hours of union rep training and it was super interesting. It left me feeling energised and more knowledgeable about employment law. It’ll do for now until I can do the proper two day training and I feel more able to advise our growing membership 👍 (it doubled in the last year).

  • For my mental wellbeing I have to believe the AI bubble will burst relatively soon. Luckily for me, many economists agree. Not sure what’ll shake out of it, probably something vaguely useful but orders of magnitude more expensive.

  • Watched the latest Bridgerton, isn’t it silly but lovely?