Apr 10
11 min
Nailing a couple of theses on MMT's door. MMT suffers from bad messaging.
Edited 160d ago
economics
People seriously getting upset because I used AI to edit an article about how to protect people from getting replaced by AI. Smdh.
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What I’ve been reading (and watching) week ending 26 July 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-week-ending-26-july-2026-9c11a433eabc #politics #AI #SystemsThinking #economics #Lean #SoftwareEngineering
What I’ve been reading (watching, and listening to) this week ending 25 January 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-watching-and-listening-to-this-week-ending-25-january-2026-9c368055fb96
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What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 8 February 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-8-february-2026-9f887c2b6715 #geopolitics #strategy #engineering #economics #mvp #physics
What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 22 February 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-22-february-2026-b7d5e04e95c9 #housing #science #economics #product #ai #politics #lean #management #tech
According to research by Ben Johnson in Inequality By Design, the level of inequality in the US today matches that of France in the run up to the French Revolution. If you think things are bad for the vast majority of people, it's because they are.
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What I’ve been reading (and watching) week ending 7 June 2026 https://medium.com/p/8b213b1e83fa #algorithms #crime #economics #ai #learning #management
What I’ve been reading (and watching) week ending 2 August https://medium.com/@jchyip/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-week-ending-2-august-3a0ef3159f0b #AI #science #engineering #government #economics
YOU’RE LOOKING
AT THE WRONG PARTS 💎
I sometimes wonder what people imagine is going on inside the life of someone with a visible disability.
I walk very strangely. My left arm doesn’t work at all. My hand is contracted into a claw. I do everything one-handed, and that clearly wasn’t covered in this model’s original operating instructions.
From the outside, I suspect it can look like a life dominated by disability.
“Poor bugger.” “What a tragedy.” “Everything must be so difficult?”
Meanwhile, inside my actual life, I’m usually wondering whether the coffee is ready, what ridiculous thing I can write on Mastodon, whether the dogs have been fed, or why everyone on the internet has suddenly gone mad again.
The disability is there, obviously. I cannot drive, and there are many things I cannot do unaided. Other things just take longer, because much of the world appears to have been designed by someone who assumed every human comes with two fully operational hands.
And most people are remarkably unhelpful.
That sounds like a complaint, but it has an unexpected benefit. If you’re disabled, you become bloody good at finding another way. You have to.
Eventually, you stop wondering how something is supposed to be done and work out how you can do it.
That doesn’t make accessibility unnecessary. Quite the opposite. But disabled people often become extremely skilled at adapting because the world gives us plenty of practice.
Disability is not the central event of my consciousness.
I don’t wake up thinking, “Good morning. I am disabled.”
I wake up thinking, “Coffee.”
Most of the time, I’m not experiencing myself as a tragic medical story. I’m just living.
I’ve had decades to become extremely competent at being this particular slightly damaged model of human being. Sometimes other people seem considerably more concerned about my disability than I am.
It’s sweet.
But unnecessary.
The odd thing about a visible disability is that people often see what doesn’t work before they notice the enormous amount that does.
And from inside here?
It’s mostly just Friday.
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DEATH, GOD, &
A VERY SMALL SPIDER 💎
I am increasingly aware that I will leave this world. I don’t know when. I don’t know how. Perhaps within the next decade. Perhaps sooner. Who knows.
And strangely, there is less fear in that now. Most of the fear seems to belong to what I imagine is unknown.
If death is simply the end of Robin and the end of this consciousness, then there will be nobody there to be bothered by it. It will simply be over. And if there is something beyond this life, another realm, another dimension, another form of consciousness, then I suppose I will recognise it when I get there.
I don’t know. And I am quite happy not knowing.
Human beings have created manifold books, religions and pictures of God, spirit, heaven, continuation and eternity. Perhaps some of them point towards something true. Perhaps some are simply beautiful ways of comforting ourselves in the face of death.
But every picture I can make of what comes next is still a picture being made here.
I don’t want to manufacture comfort. I want clarity. I want to meet whatever happens without having already decided what it is supposed to look like.
Maybe there is something. Maybe there is nothing. Either way, reality does not require my opinion.
And while I am sitting here contemplating this enormous mystery, a tiny spider appears beside me. He is absurdly small. I stop, look at him, laugh, and decide he can stay.
And suddenly, there it all is. Death. Consciousness. God. Eternity. And a tiny spider wandering across my morning.
The fire is on. The coffee is good. People are interacting with things I have written. The spider is minding his own business.
Life has not stopped being ordinary just because I know it ends. I rather like that.
None of it means anything until I give it meaning. And this morning, the meaning I choose is very simple.
Gratitude.
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Edited 33d ago
Warren Buffett has said he is waiting for a larger move to the downside
What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 5 April 2026 https://medium.com/@jchyip/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-5-april-2026-9a357e08e786 #ai #management #pluralism #economics #agile #ev
Jun 19
10 min
A signed deal is more "whatever". The war has scarred oil production and deeply altered the calculus of energy/oil supplies.
Mainstream framing over US reserve's monetary policy is *especially* inappropriate under contemporary conditions
I don't understand why the concept of economic violence isn't more mainstream. Few people seem to use it, even in academic and activist circles.
We have enough resources to give everyone a decent life. Not taking those resources to share them with everyone is a conscious choice by the state and other actors of power.
When we do austerity politics, it is a form of economic violence: common folk are asked to suffer in ways that can be extreme (and lethal) so that the rich don't have to share.
Words hold power, and labeling things correctly helps give them more meaning. Austerity is an euphemism. Economic violence is more descriptive.
The decades-old petrodollar cycle, where Gulf states priced oil in dollars and reinvested revenues into US Treasuries in exchange for American security, is now broken. Oil-importing nations are selling Treasuries to defend their currencies, while Gulf exporters, facing lower revenues are reassessing US investments. This accelerates a structural shift away from dollar assets, challenging the Treasury's status as an unquestioned safe haven.
What I’ve been reading (and watching) week ending 16 August https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-week-ending-16-august-722524ba1f76 #philosophy #culture #management #lean #AI #SoftwareEngineering #economics #science
July 1
21 min
He's on a spiral. I wish it was different. As one of the leading names in heterodox economics, he has some responsibility for its reputation.
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What I’ve been reading (and watching) week ending 28 June 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-week-ending-28-june-2026-eaacd2eeac3a #housing #lean #economics #yagni #forensics #AI
Apr 19
11 min
fixing "taxpayer dollar" false premise.
What I’ve been reading this week ending 19 April 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-this-week-ending-19-april-2026-dee3a9d414b0 #economics #ai #PsychologicalSafety #cybersecurity #SafetyCulture