Newsletter and more

I write a free newsletter , a critique of elite journalism with a wonkish perspective from the Global South. Here's a mixed-bag of that and older pieces.

The pull of Liberalism

Amid chatter of deglobalization and allied blocs, a more honest ‘accounting’ of the interests of nations might give us a more stable world.

The Wages of North-Atlantic Bias

A community of talented and connected people intend to do good better. What might they learn if they lived where they want to have an impact?

Revaluing journalism

How news media will take back control and shape the internet.

What TV writers say to the Thucydides’ trap

A TV show proposes a diplomatic device to prevent the imminent USA versus China showdown of the century.

Could GPT actually help blue-collar fortunes?

Global labor markets will be just as directly affected by what GPT-4 and other LLMs cannot do.

Games in Policy

Obama's Executive Order strategy looks much like Public Procumrent in Europe, with a twist.

Courses

Distinctive expertise in designing and delivering courses at the intersection of economics, policy and business, with a dash of science. Below is a selection of slides from some of them. [Click a title to see the corresponding slide below.]

Software

Ongoing leisure pursuits to be something more than an amateur web developer. Below are examples of some edutainment game apps. Neither this website nor the games below use any frameworks, libraries or plugins. All code is home-baked, while attempting to be screen-responsive to the last detail, and aiming for a perfect 100 Lighthouse score. The games are even written 'declaratively' in the markup, with Pod JS, a single thrifty Class. All source code at Github.

Hanzi game | 汉字游戏

Pelmanist memory game. Memorise Mandarin characters or whatever else you might use flash cards for!

Verba

A word-linking game with 2 vocabulary levels. No JS framework! All own code.

wiki🌍hop

In how many links can you jump from one Wikipedia article to another?