Interesting Things on the Internet: December 29th 2025 Edition

• Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? I read this with (somewhat smug, because I wasn’t just holidaying there, but I was also part of the problem) memories of life in Torino mixed with a view of the Beatles-football-stag-and-hen-dos commodification of Liverpool. It would be nice if someone other than the property developers got to shape the city.
• The world is something that we make ” I’m just saying that the business guys who got richer than your mind can ever imagine by controlling access to almost all of today’s music now pay a lot of science guys to make robot weapons.” The world is messy and a mess and we can’t solve the problems individually. But we’re not. We’ll keep sharing stories about how and what we’re trying.
• How to save bureaucracy from itself I’d love to find better ways to discover the folk locally who are working to reform the broken systems. And reading this I’m also reminded that one of, I think, the key lessons I thankfully learnt fairly early in my management career: project planning tools are ways to get a view of what’s going on, so you can spot problems earlier and re-jig or try to solve them; not a prescriptive laying out of the future.