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6 August 2021

The sun is shinin', come on get mappy

Ever found yourself floating aimlessly around the alphabet soup of UK government departments doing data, wondering who's responsible for what? Or lost track of all the interesting initiatives that you might be able to get involved with or learn from?

I'm delighted to be running a new project with the ODI that tries to help with that. We're mapping data responsibility and initiatives across the UK government here, so please do tell us what we've missed and comment on what we've already got. It'll be open for comments until Friday 10 September, so you have all summer to contribute.

There's a launch page explaining everything here, and we're also going to be publishing a blogpost a week focusing on a particular area of the ODI manifesto. This week is infrastructure week. Keep an eye on the ODI blog for future ones.

In other news:

A date for your diary - the 22nd Data Bites will be taking place on Wednesday 8 September at 6pm, thanks to ADR UK and the ESRC. Details will appear here in due course - which is also where you can catch up on the previous 21 events.

I'm also chairing an event for IfG at this year's Labour Party conference - more here.

I'm really sad to see this news about Understanding Patient Data (full disclosure - I'm doing some work for them at the moment). Natalie has done a terrific job, and I really hope their work is able to find a home elsewhere - it's more important than ever, given recent events.

Nick Timmins' new report on how the Department for Education handled the pandemic is well worth a read. Warning: contains mutant algorithms. Diginomica pull out some lessons on those here; my piece from last summer on that is here; and there are more links below.

If you enjoyed this account of what allegedly happened to that Spectator piece on Marcus Rashford (h/t Alice), pour yourself a cup of tea and enjoy this story of something similar from my time at the Media Standards Trust.

I did it - my first half marathon since 2019. There's still time to sponsor me and donate to the excellent Tommy's, here.

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Tokyo shift

Olympic records are being broken at a record pace* (The Economist)

How the Olympics became bigger and more diverse* (The Economist)

What the Tokyo medal table tells us halfway through the Games (BBC Sport)

Russia and Kenya take the podium in the athletics doping contest* (The Economist)

Tokyo Olympics: Will Team GB beat its record-breaking performance in Rio? (Sky News)

20 Chinese gold medal contenders at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics (South China Morning Post)

Olympians are probably older — and younger — than you think* (Washington Post)

The Fastest Men In The World Are Still Chasing Usain Bolt (FiveThirtyEight)

Here's how Sydney McLaughlin of the U.S. won the 400-meter hurdles at #Tokyo2020, breaking her own world record (New York Times - more here)

Katie Ledecky's historic week, day by day* (Washington Post)

The Climber: Adam Ondra | The Hurdler: Dalilah Muhammad | The Gymnast: Sunisa Lee | The Swimmer: Simone Manuel (New York Times)

Viral content

Why are Covid cases falling in the UK?* (FT)

Excess deaths in your neighbourhood during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic (ONS)

COVID-19: Sewage surveillance reveals 'widespread increase' of coronavirus in England last month (Sky News)

Covid travel: which countries are on the green, amber and red lists? (The Guardian)

Tim Spector: the data explorer who uncovered vital clues to Covid* (FT)

Which Americans are against the jab?* (The Economist)

Chart: Less than 0.1% of vaccinated Americans tested positive for COVID-19 (Axios)

America is plummeting down the global vaccination league table* (The Economist)

Florida’s hospitals set a bleak pandemic record* (FT)

How Europe, After a Fumbling Start, Overtook the U.S. in Vaccination* (New York Times)

Side effects

Why the pandemic is not making your rent cheaper* (New Statesman)

New York City Homebuyers Are Back, and They’re Looking for Deals* (Bloomberg)

Net worth

How Google quietly funds Europe’s leading tech policy institutes* (New Statesman)

Explore different settlements on the balance of power and what they mean for the future of the Internet (Demos)

Ransomware attacks rise despite US call for clampdown on cybercriminals* (FT)

Environment

Planetary ‘vital signs’ show extent of climate stress — and some hope* (FT)

How heat dome has sparked worst wildfires in a decade across parts of Southern Europe (Sky News)

Beyond human endurance: How climate change is making parts of the world too hot and humid to survive* (Washington Post)

Race

The 'ethnic data gap' on voters - and why it matters to parties and pollsters (Sky News)

Hollywood reaps the rewards of becoming more diverse* (The Economist)

The first ever machine generated map of the @UKParliament treaty procedure (UK Parliament)

Favourability towards Boris Johnson falls to lowest level since October (Ipsos MORI)

Productivity: firing on all cylinders (IfG)

Mathematician Hannah Fry: ‘I’m sure there’s lots of tutting — but not to my face* (FT)

Everywhere else

‘It’s Huge, It’s Historic, It’s Unheard-of’: Drug Overdose Deaths Spike* (The Upshot)

Elon Musk’s Outrageous Moonshot Award Catches on Across America* (Bloomberg)

Police shootings continue daily, despite a pandemic, protests and pushes for reform* (Washington Post)

People in the West are least worried about hurtful speech* (The Economist)

An Inca highway still benefits people living nearby* (The Economist)

German election 2021: The New Statesman’s poll tracker* (New Statesman)

Meta data

Information health

Statistics informing quarantine requirements for arrivals to England (Office for Statistics Regulation)

Review of NHS Test and Trace (England) and NHS COVID-19 app statistics (Office for Statistics Regulation)

What we mean by trustworthy use of patient data (Understanding Patient Data)

The future of Understanding Patient Data (Understanding Patient Data)

Lord Bethell’s new phone (Good Law Project)

UK government defends deleting all trace of job vacancies after appointing Matt Hancock's lover to health department board (Business Insider)

Education, education, education

Schools and coronavirus: The government’s handling of education during the pandemic (IfG)

The UK A-Level ‘COVID-19 algorithm fiasco’ and lessons for the enterprise (diginomica)

Four things government must learn from the A-level algorithm fiasco (me from last year for IfG)

More from last summer (W:GC)

Even more from last summer (W:GC)

Ensuring statistical models command public confidence: Learning lessons from the approach to developing models for awarding grades in the UK in 2020 (Office for Statistics Regulation, from March 2021)

AI got 'rithm

Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped.* (MIT Technology Review)

I’m sorry Dave I’m afraid I invented that: Australian court finds AI systems can be recognised under patent law (The Guardian)

Bias in Artificial Intelligence (Harvard Magazine)

The ethics of recommendation systems in public-service media (Ada Lovelace Institute)

Britain can set 'gold standard' in ethical artificial intelligence - industry report (BCS)

ICO baby

The Information Commissioner's Office is letting us down* (Telegraph)

Response: ICO’s priorities and impact of our work (ICO)

New guidance on direct marketing and the public sector (ICO)

Thread (Tim Turner)

Information Rights Strategic Plan: Trust and Confidence - annual tracker (ICO)

UK government

Introduction to Data Quality course launched (Government Data Quality Hub)

A new model for modelling (Actuaries in government)

Six reasons why digital transformation is still a problem for government (NAO)

govcookiecutter: A template for data science projects (Data in government)

Radar – more than just wave detection (Defra digital)

Driving technology convergence and reuse in our Future Borders and Immigration System (Home Office Digital, Data and Technology)

The longlist (Civil Service Data Challenge)

Cabinet Office eyes ‘geographical capability map’ for civil servants (Civil Service World)

Next step in plans to govern use of digital identities revealed (DCMS)

Building a single sign-on for government: What we’ve learnt so far (Services in government)

ESRC launches opportunity to inform data infrastructure strategy (UKRI)

Keeping old computers going costs government £2.3bn a year, says report (BBC News - CSW had this last week)

2021 Deane-Stone Lecture: Ambitious, Radical, Inclusive and Sustainable: How a National Statistical Institute evolved through Covid-19 (Sir Ian Diamond for NIESR)

Taking the wiki

Left-leaning Wikipedia is no match for my shelf of dictionaries* (Telegraph)

There are 11,656 athletes at the Olympics. Guy Fraser wanted them all on Wikipedia (The Guardian)

A sense of place

‘X’ Marks the Spot: Officials Map a Route Out of the Pandemic* (New York Times)

What 3 Words is a Mess

Dis and that

Disinformation: It’s History (CIGI)

Why Generation Z falls for online misinformation (MIT Technology Review)

It's a jungle out there

Why Amazon’s £636m GDPR fine really matters* (Wired)

The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream* (Wired)

Open for the best

Natalia Carfi to carry the torch of openness (Open Data Charter)

Tech spec experts seek allies to tear down ISO standards paywall (The Register)

The promise of open-source intelligence* (The Economist)

Private parts

Estonia says a hacker downloaded 286,000 ID photos from government database (The Record)

Here’s how police can get your data — even if you aren’t suspected of a crime (Recode)

Everything else

The social value of data (Bennett Institute)

BIG TECH’S DUTY OF CARE (New Economics Foundation)

Inequality just went stratospheric. Can we bring it down to earth?* (Prospect)

A New Tech ‘Cold War?’ Not for Europe. (AI Now Institute)

THE TIME TAX: Why is so much American bureaucracy left to average citizens?* (The Atlantic)

Can data cooperatives sustain themselves? (LSE Business Review)

medConfidential note on the PRUK green paper and DARE project (medConfidential)

Measuring internet poverty (Brookings)

Data don’t lie, but they can lead scientists to opposite conclusions* (The Economist)

Opportunities

JOB: Head of Digital Data & Digital Democracy (London Borough of Newham, via Martin)

JOB: Executive Director (Digital Freedom Fund)

JOB: Senior Data Analyst (Common Wealth)

JOB: Visuals Project Editor - Visuals (The Guardian)

JOBS: Data for Science & Health team (Wellcome Trust)

JOB: Data Journalist (Tech Monitor, New Statesman Media Group)

JOBS: Data and Digitalisation programme (Ofgem, via Owen Boswarva)

JOB: Head of Strategic Communications and Engagement, Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (DCMS)

JOBS: Economic Advisers - The Digital and Tech Analysis team (DCMS)

JOBS: Modelling Hub Analyst Roles, Data & Analytical Services Directorate (MoJ)

JOB: Director of Analysis (MoD)

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP: Data, Visualisation and Storytelling (The National Archives)

JOB: Product Manager - Data (BBC, via Jukesie)

And finally...

Vennerable

In celebration of John Venn's 187th birthday today, here's a poem in the form of a Venn diagram. (Brian Bilston)

*whispers* that's not actually how they work, but fine, it's funny (@StandingHannah, via David)

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HOME STRETCH! Our Kickstarter still has a little over one day left to go. We’re funded, but we would love to reach our stretch goal so we can pay all the hardworking folks who volunteered to help us make it possible. People like our artist, (@theoutsidervevo) sound engineer (@shapechangersinwinter) and musician (@sounddesignerjeans).

During our campaign Andrea Klassen (our Certified Journalist on the team and co-writer/producer for Station to Station) did interviews with the creative teams of all our shows. In case folks on the tumble missed it, we’re also posting it here!

Below the cut: Station to Station writer’s room insider with Alex Yun and Andrea Klassen on inspiration, horror, and representation in genre fiction.

When Dr Miranda Quan embarks on an 10-week research cruise in the Pacific Ocean, she expects two months of no-nonsense experiments, bad Titanic jokes and marathoning Grey’s Anatomy. Instead, her lab partner has vanished, leaving nothing but a notebook full of illogical ramblings, a voice recorder, and a half-finished maths problem she has to solve. With a storm moving in and something sinister lurking below decks, Miranda must untangle the conspiracy surrounding her or be consumed.

AK: It's really satisfying to write women who get to be flawed heroes in all the ways male protagonists do too. With moments of bad judgement and moral conflict and selfishness and stubbornness. Also as a queer woman it's... just nice to get write characters whose stories aren't tied to homophobia — where someone can have a crush on another woman, but that's not the source of conflict the way horrifying science conspiracies are.

AY: Exactly. And the reason that we do this — the point of PPN — is to create narrative space for ourselves in genre fiction, be it horror or sci-fi or fantasy, where we are allowed to take up that space and drive that narrative. We deserve to be front and centre, to have our stories not end in tragedy, to have stories that doesn't just mimic the current way the media treats marginalised identities. It is not niche to put non-white, non-straight bodies into narratives that have been historically excluding of them.

The idea that diverse stories are less appealing is based on constructed ideas of what "the norm" looks like - it's tied to the experience of what it means to be the "default" and what it means to be the Other.

The rest is below the cut!

Andrea Klassen (co-writer, Station to Station): In an effort to hold onto the old Q&A format for one question — where did the idea come from for Station to Station?

Alex Yun (creator, Station to Station): I have scientist friend who goes on these types of research cruises once a year and has for the two-three years I've known her. She talked about it last time she went (or was about to leave, back in October/November), I thought 'this reminds me a bit of Wolf 359' which lead to 'this would make a good podcast' and that's how the original idea was formed.

AK: I remember when you first talked about it, there was something so appealing about that setup. Even before we'd really delved into what was going to happen in season one, there's that combination of forced isolation and forced camaraderie. No one's alone on a research vessel, but you're very much stuck with what you've got, for better or worse... and in this case, maybe a little more of the worse.

AY: Right, and that's how it turned from 'slice-of-life dramedy with slightly creepy science' to full-blown sci-fi conspiracy horror. The restrictions of being stuck in confined space, of being unable to escape because you're literally hundreds of kilometres out at sea — that all feeds into the paranoia, the unease, and the claustrophobia of horror.

AK: Yeah, and I think all those same things are reasons this is a story that's so interesting to tell in podcast form. My favourite horror has never been the stuff that's about slicing up people — it's withheld information, the stuff just outside your peripheral vision, that sense there's something going on you don't understand. A medium that's entirely what you can hear is so ripe for that.

AY: I think a big component to horror is helplessness. When you look at these classic horror movies, so many of them are about being stuck in a building, in a room, in a house — and then adding in the growing fear and sense of wrongness that comes from the unknown and truly unnatural. The best horror is psychological. I'm not really interested in gore as a trope. There are a lot of other fears you can delve into that's simply more...interesting and rewarding as a setup. Especially when you tap into the natural-reaction gut-instinct kind of scary.

The best thing with audio is that you get unlimited ways to play with perception. 'Nothing is scarier' is a favourite trope of mine and audio is perfect for that precisely because it's non-visual. It leaves a lot of room for imagination and painting the medium.

I'm honestly not a big fan of horror films precisely because of how many rely on cheap tropes like body horror, jump scares and gore, but I have loved conspiracy thrillers because they deliver the same punch of fighting against something bigger and unknown — so I suppose I wanted to create something that used similar tropes, but that I would be able to listen to and not bug out in the middle.

AK: I love ‘nothing is scarier’ too, and if you think about it, we've got a very literal use of it here — no spoilers, but nothing really is the scariest thing going on in this show in a lot of ways.

AY: Right, the vast empty abyss of the void beyond when you're in the middle of nowhere. Which is always fun to joke about, until you start exploring what it means, and how to make use of the.... let's call it the instinctual human unease towards the unknown.

AK: One of the things that's been a lot of fun there is that at the centre of this story we have this trio of very different, complex women who do paranoia and unease in such completely different ways. (I wanna gush about our characters, Alex. I wanna gush.)

AY: That was something interesting to explore — coming up with different perspectives, different voices, different character motivations was definitely a learning experience for me as a writer as well. We have three extremely competent women of colour at the centre of things trying to solve this eldritch, unexplainable, larger-than-yourself mystery and it is very gratifying.

AK: I think it's also deeply informed the kind of story we're writing. Horror can be pretty individualistic — final girls, a single protagonist getting to the bottom of everything — but when you're telling stories about people for whom finding safe community is an essential part of survival in everyday real life, it changes the narrative.

Questions of trust are so central to this story — both who you can trust when things go wrong, and how that trust or lack of it plays out. While in this case there's a conspiracy motivating our characters, these are questions that I think resonate on a pretty personal level if you're a person with any kind of marginalised identity.

AY: Right, and being aware of the real-life subtext is vital if we want to create something unique. Every piece of fiction has multiple layers to it, and every piece of fiction is measured against the meta-narrative it exists in. We're doing a horror-sci-fi in a medium that's abundant with horror-scifi — so it's obviously important to be aware of how we build it. It's been a challenge balancing character moments and not overcomplicating plot, but that's why themes of found families and solidarity and momentary allies an integral structure of the story.

But when all is said, I'm fairly satisfied with what we've got so far — I've enjoyed working with you, I love our cast, and I'm looking forward to bringing this thing to life.

Station to Station launches this summer. For updates, check us out at s2s-podcast.tumblr.com or follow us on Twitter @S2SPodcast.

#station to station #procyon podcast network #s2s podcast #representation matters #diversity in sff #supportpocpods #p: station to station

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The treadmill that is academic science

Lately I’ve been fantasizing about leaving academic science to do something completely different. Maybe I could see if I like the industry approach to science, or maybe it’d be fun to see how science and policies intertwine. Or maybe communicating science to people and/or teaching people about the wonders of the brain would be a satisfying experience. So many options! After all, I have a PhD in neuroscience. The world is my oyster!

More accurately, the world is the crab that eats the oyster of which I am currently residing within.

Unfortunately, in academic science land, there is this constant grind from birth to death with very little time to explore other career or life options. There is no time to smell any roses when scientific discoveries are to be made (or so the claim goes), because roses don’t get you papers and don’t advance human health and don’t save the world. And don’t you want to do good things for the world? What are you, a selfish jerk?

The way the current system is set up, scientists are on proverbial treadmills with no stop buttons. From graduate school onward, if you ever choose to step off this treadmill, you’re never getting back on. Your career advancement in academia is dead the second you tumble off, by choice or not by choice, because that treadmill isn’t stopping. Ever. There’s plenty of other eager souls waiting in line to try their luck. Why does this happen?

Many NIH grants for postdocs are age-limited. That means, you have a certain number of years after starting your postdoc that you’re eligible for these grants. Outside of these, there’s almost no money to be found to fund you or your research. That means once you’ve aged out of these grants, it becomes exponentially harder to claw your way back to independent funding. And the metrics in academic science that the people in charge care about are 1) Do you publish well?, and more importantly 2) Can you bring in outside funding to our department and university? The beast needs to be fed, after all.

Well, maybe this seems reasonable. Why should the government subsidize the clearly inferior researchers who are stuck in the purgatory known as postdocing because they just aren’t “good”enough to move on? After all, science is a meritocracy… right? (Hah if you actually believe that, I would like to inspect your brain for holes because you’re either really old or really delusional, or both).

The huge problem is that, for almost all of these grants, your postdoc timer doesn’t start ticking when you start your postdoc. It starts the second you graduate! Wanna take time off between grad school and your postdoc? Tick tock. Have a project you’d like to wrap up in your grad school lab before moving on? Tick tock. I envision Death’s second cousin, Academic Science Career Death, checking his/her clock meticulously every day after someone graduates grad school to eagerly await the day that person loses eligibility for grants.

How many people know postdocs who have been postdocing for 5+ years? And who’ve been searching in vain to find an academic job even across multiple cycles? Science can and usually does take a realllly long time, so why are these people being punished?

Okay so let’s say you make through the gauntlet, you’re hanging on to the side rails on the treadmill for dear life, but you do land a professor position. Great! Make sure you stay on that treadmill because again, by Darwin if you ever fall off, you’re screwed. You need grant money to do research, to publish papers. You need to publish papers to get grant money. See the problem here? This becomes a feed-forward cycle where the “established” PIs grab the biggest piece of the funding pie at the expense of everyone else. If you’re one of the lucky few to make it into that club, congrats. But if by whatever stroke of misfortune you miss a grant, or get a paper rejected, or any combination of your dog ate your homework while there was a snowstorm going outside and you had food poisoning…you’re not getting back on that treadmill.

This is a problem.

There exists an ass-backwards rationalization from some people who participate in academic science; they trot out the tired excuse of, “Well, we only want people who are truly dedicated to science and know they’re truly dedicated to science, so if you aren’t okay with that, maybe it’s not for you.” Do I really have to explain why this thinking is a problem? Would people who get their grants rejected believe it if I told them only deserving grants got funded? In fact, as a postdoctoral researcher and as a PI, the NIH requires that you stay in science for an equal number of years after they’ve finished dishing out their money that you earned from obtaining a grant, effectively locking you in to their system! It’s not that the stop button is broken — it’s how the manufacturers of the treadmill intentionally designed it!

After slaving away in lab for your PhD after so many years, you’re faced with a decision: “Do I stay or do I go?” In any non-academic career option, you will be shut out if you choose to take a single step — even if it’s just for a little bit — off the treadmill. That means you’d damn well better choose wisely after graduate school, because your decision will literally shut you out of the major career path you were trained for and (for some) the only career path that you’ve ever had exposure to. Yes, you can technically leave any time you want because you aren’t a literal slave as a postdoc, but it sure feels like some form of indentured servitude what with paying back massive NIH grant funds somehow if you leave. And let me tell you, you aren’t paying those back from savings you made as a postdoc.

There are some exceptions that are gaining significant footholds; in graduate school there is a groundswell of interest from the students in finding internships or opportunities for exposure to non-academic career paths. Summer internships at a biotech company, weeks spent on consulting preparations/interviews, and other policy-related internships are all available. But there is still that gigantic frowny-face standing between you and your desires, also known as Your Principal Investigator, who you will have to convince to let you do it should you get it (it is possible, but not guaranteed). And hey, they gotta get those papers published. And grants funded. Because they’re also stuck huffing away on that treadmill right next to you. Nevertheless, I firmly believe that an increasing exposure to non-academic career options at both graduate and postdoctoral stages coupled with a change in attitude at the PI level will dramatically improve the quality of life for those involved.

Life is a marathon, not a sprint. You build skills over time, and eventually you’ll hit a point where those skills will pay back some kind of reward (financially or intellectually). But academic science seems more and more like an endless marathon that necessitates its participants to sprint forever. I feel that we as scientists, we as people, and we in society at large, lose out on so much potential when this happens.

#science #academia #biology #research #careers #life

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Questionable Places I’ve Slept

Day 10

It’s that oh so lovely day of the week again - rest day. Rest day, I hate you. Essential but I’d rather be out running. It’s okay, my girlfriend and I have a substantial walk planned this afternoon and a bit of retail therapy to take my mind away from the lack of endorphin. Also, I’ve started recording a song that I plan on releasing for next week’s upload. Exciting times.

Last week I posted “My Greatest Story” and I thought that, seeing as on my rest day I get that little bit longer to write the post, I would delve into some of the other life stories that I think are worth telling.

Being in Ghouls has come with its rewards, despite it being the aim to take it as far as we can, it still feels surreal to think that playing music has taken us to the US twice (3 times if you include the tour in a couple of weeks), Europe countless times and more recently, Australia! That said, it hasn’t come without it’s hardships and through the years we have done some pretty hilarious D.I.Y tours. Despite the romanticism behind the idea of 'being on the road’, ‘living out the van’ and ‘sleeping on floors’ - it can get pretty grim. These days, I’m all about the Air B’n’B lifestyle. An athlete has to look after himself.

(Looking Hench in Baltimore, ML, USA - October 2016)

So, in no particular order, here are some of the more hilarious and questionable places we’ve had the pleasure of calling a ‘bed’ for the night:

1. Paris, France - July 2012. “A student hall’s fire escape”. This was the first time the band went abroad. We were young and nothing like the band we are now and even had a few different members. Young and ready for anything, we had a call from a friend in another band who said there was a last minute support slot open for a gig in Paris, that was the very next day! I don’t really know what we were thinking, being the naive youth we were, we booked the Megabus for the following morning headed direct for Paris.

We had no plan for accommodation other than “We’ll find somewhere”. The show was quiet but we were high on life. As if we were in Paris to play a show, with 24 hours notice. As the night came to a draw, we gathered on the banks of the river Seine with no idea as to where we were going to sleep. Our drummer of that time, suddenly appeared with two very nervous looking students who had agreed that we could stay in the fire escape of their halls building. Despite their suspicious glances to one another, our hosts were very kind to us and gave us an assortment of french snacks to go with our fire escape dwellings. It was literally a spiral staircase that ran the back side of a tall building in central Paris. Made to, quite literally, escape a fire - not ideal for the 7 of us that were there but I don’t recall it being a bad sleep.

(Early Ghouls, this is from 2012 - I know, who are those people?!)

2. Sheffield, UK - August 2013. “An old lady’s Marijuana horde”. In the summer of 2013, we all happened to have the whole month of August off. We were trying to raise funds to record our first album through a crowd funded campaign - seizing the opportunity of the time off, we booked ourselves a whole month’s tour, 30 days long, to help raise these funds. The tour was called the “Can We Crash At Yours Tour” and, we did just that. Played a show almost every night with nowhere booked to stay, hoping someone would be kind enough to let us “crash” at theirs. It actually went surprisingly well and plenty of lovely people gave up their sitting rooms and sofas for a bunch of over-excited musicians.

There were, however, a few nights on that tour in which the crowd at the shows weren’t, let say, the ideal band-friendly-stay-at-mine-and-we’ll-make-breakfast tomorrow dream that we’d had in our minds. There was one night in particular, about mid-way through the tour, in Sheffield. We’d played what I recall as being a sort of pub/venue, announcing on stage that we needed a place to crash. A slightly haggard old woman came forward and said we’d be more than welcome to sleep in her living room.

Upon arriving at the flat above a kebab shop in the Sheffield suburbs, we were greeted with the distinct smell of cannabis. It didn’t take long to see why, there were nuggets of weed everywhere! On the shelves, on top of the toilet, down the sides of the sofa, in jars in the kitchen, everywhere you can think of - weed nuggets. She immediately lit a joint as soon as we got there and started rambling about how she didn’t need ‘nout but a coffee and a spliff” to be happy.

I don’t smoke weed, nor do I have any interest in it - it’s not something I frown upon or judge people for, but that night I had to endure a good 6/7 hours of second hand stench - I definitely woke up questioning why some lamp shades are spherical.

3. Greensboro, NC, USA - October 2016. “Tap-out wherever, dude”.

I think this might be one of the worse nights sleep I’ve ever had, made worse because we were trapped in a foreign country with no alternative. When we’re in the UK, we know we’re never that far from somewhere we know - a friend or relatives house. Even in Europe now, we know enough people that I’d feel we could get ourselves out of a sticky situation. Plus, we’re all working adults now, so we usually book accommodation - #DIYbutwithhotels. However, this was our first time in the USA and touring somewhere unfamiliar on a budget for the first time always comes with a few hairy situations.

We played a show in Greensboro, North Carolina, mid-week in a pizza/dive bar style place. It was empty except for a couple of pizza bros who looked as though they’d have had a great time at the flat in Sheffield. Our host was a gentleman called Graham, who was playing in another band. Once the gig finished, which was a lot later than we’d expected due to Graham’s band not conforming to the conventional 3-minute song standard and instead opting for 12/15minute epics (which weren’t epic, to say the least). We headed to Graham’s place, detouring via a gas station due to Graham and his fellow band mates having the “munchies”.

We arrived at Grahams “pad”, which reminded me of the scene when Marty McFly goes back to the future, to his neighbourhood and Biff has taken over. Once inside the house, we were greeted by a room in which there was one sofa, a floor that had never seen a vacuum, and a man sat as close to a television as you can possibly get, playing Call of Duty. He was yelling his head off, down a head set at fellow online players in a thick southern American accent. Graham’s words were “just tap-out wherever guys”. We were about a week into what had already been a hectic tour, I was fresh off the back of my Brooklyn Half Marathon win, “tapping out” was never going to happen with our friend Cliff, the gentleman yelling at the screen, in that room. Also, where exactly were we supposed to ‘tap out’. Graham said we were welcome to the “sofa in the yard” - which was an old sofa in his garden. I decided to opt for sleeping in our rented Nissan Quest, which was full of gear.

I managed to clear a space just big enough for me, tucked into the fetal position and just preyed that the night pass by. Several hours later, we woke up, hurried our way out of there and sought refuge in a nearby iHop. Saved by pancakes.

(The infamous Nissan Quest. I drove this 3,333 miles down the east coast of the USA)

I’ll leave it at that for now. There is more to tell but I have to go out and get some clothes. Day 10 of 30 on the daily blog. I am seriously considering to keep this going beyond 30 days and may even purchase a website domain as incentive. If anybody has any advice on web hosting for bloggers then please let me know.

Peace & love y’all. BG

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UPGRADING TOURISTIC INITIATIVES IN ORDER TO ENHANCE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Picture: The QR code as part of the tourist's overall experience when visiting a site in Piemonte-Sacra San Michele ((Italy)

Tourism as important sector for regional development

In no country economic opportunities are evenly spread over the whole territory. The reasons for this are multiple: geographical, historical, demographic. There is also an increasingly broader gap between rural areas and urban areas. However, the right to an adequate standard of living is enshrined in an International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which is an output of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and every politician in a democracy should be committed to providing his fellow citizens with a dignified existence. In today's economies, tourism is often used as a means to provide areas with few structural employment opportunities with tools for economic development. Especially when the areas in question are attractive because of their natural resources or because of their cultural-historical background. The government finances and organizes then in the first place the disclosure of the area by building roads and infrastructure. The further economic development is often left to the private sector. And those entrepreneurs who respond to this are not always best equipped to offer high added value for a region. Indeed, they strive in the first place to provide their own family, relatives or clan with an income, without taking into account the wider regional ecosystem. As a result, the tourist offer is very fragmented and therefore not necessarily attractive for the more demanding visitor. I agree that tourism offers opportunities to social groups with less educational potential enabling them to build up a viable life thanks to hard work. But if a regional or local government coordinates initiatives with some competence, a complete region can enjoy a much higher added value, which by far exceeds the tourist aspect. This article is the result of a number of reflection moments held within the European Academy of Regions to set up a training program for regional tourism. It corroborates in its main conclusion with a study published on the blog of the World Bank: “Destinations and their stakeholders are responsible for ensuring that growth is well-managed; that benefits are maximized; and that any negative externalities are minimized. This requires a continuous process of planning and management that evolves and that can be measured over time.”[1]

3 main types of tourism.

For us there are 3 types of tourism in today's society: 1) the classic type, where we make a distinction between cultural tourism and recreational tourism or a combination of both, 2) event tourism, indicated with the acronym MICE (meetings, incentives , conventions, exhibitions), 3) educational tourism where summer schools, master classes for all kinds of skills and boot camps are eligible.

In classical tourism we make a distinction between cultural tourism and recreational tourism. Cultural tourism is based on the historical context of an area and links visits to historical buildings and sites to visits to museums in which artistic, cultural and / or historical objects are exhibited and discussed. Recreational tourism is much more spread out of focus. It can focus on pure recreation, enjoying the sun and the sea, or nature where ecotourism or rural tourism nowadays gets attention, on active recreation such as hiking or jogging in nature, or sports recreation in all sports such as skiing, sailing, surfing, horseback riding, diving. And more and more the gastronomic pleasures becomes an end in itself. People come to taste (local) dishes, taste wine or beers. People come to learn to cook. Creating recurrent cultural or sports events can be very beneficial for all parties in a region. The organisation of marathons for example become emblematic and increase the revenue for the entire city year after year: the touristic sector, the horeca sector, hotels, transportation business, the entertainment business welcome large quantities of visitors during the event’s period. Some figures: the marathons of New York attracted 50.000 participants in 2018, having to pay their participation fee on top of their hotel, meals etc. The marathon of Paris attracted 57.000 attendees, the one of Brussels 14.000. The financial benefit for a city is huge: 300 M. € for New York, 50 M € for Paris, 1,4 M € for Brussels.[2] Other events world while to mention attracting numerous tourists: the palio horse races in Siena Italy [3], the bi-annual flower carpet at the Brussels Grand’Place[4], the yearly movie festival of Cannes[5] etc.

Event tourism focuses on different aspects and different target groups. Congresses and conventions gather people with a common profession or a common goal to a certain location, but also offer them or their partners a recreational program. Trade fairs provide the latest insights in a specific field and offer people the way to find new opportunities and business partners. These come usually only for the fair, as a visitor or as exhibitor, but also have to be lodged, fed, have to hold business lunches etc. Incentives are usually purely recreational, but are organised with a very high level program. Incentive programs are usually the outcome of a commercial competition between different sales managers and reward the most successful sales people. The first aim is to spoil them in such a way that they will continue their effort in the following year. Annual meetings of large organisations also take place at annually changing locations. Here too, the useful results of the past year and the strategy of the following year are discussed in a combination with some very remarkable visits, and the organisation of large dinners or cocktails.

Educational tourism is of all times. Already in Roman times philosophers from different regions followed lessons with a greater philosopher. In the Renaissance, painters perfected their skills and inspiration by visiting Italy and its art cities. By improving the transport means such as railways and airplanes, these habits have increased exponentially this last century. Master classes with a famous musician, actor or artist, boot camps for ICT specialists, language classes with native speakers, perfection classes for ceramics, silk painting, modelling, it all is available nowadays. In this category we wish to integrate also the team building travel projects of larger companies and institutions for the benefit of their personnel. The gastronomic pleasures are nowadays even extended by the organisation of cooking courses, wine tasting courses etc.

These types of more sophisticated tourism have the advantage that they often attract a public from a higher price range willing to spend more money, putting more professions at work and generate more intense emotions and memories. And thus: more word-of-mouth advertising and more returners. However this type of more sophisticated tourism requires a systematic approach and strategy and should therefore be organized at regional level. In a next chapter I will discuss the various aspects that should be addressed when setting up each type of tourism.

Developing added value tourism: the various aspects

Every form of tourism requires investments. Some are small, others are more important, some are reserved only to consortia or to the wealthy. Cultural tourism requires important initiatives from the public authorities to restore buildings, to maintain them, to open them to the public, to make them accessible. Very striking examples can be found in the new economies in Eastern Europe such as Albania, where the entire centre of the 2000-years-old Berat, the city of the thousand windows, was renewed with government funds and grants from the Albanian-American Development foundation in 2016-17, resulting in the visit of 105,000 tourists in 2018[6]. Renovation of cultural heritage is a delicate matter. A "hard" renovation can completely negate the original character of the building. We discovered such an example in Prezë - Albania, where a site with ruins of a castle and a mosque was provided by the Turkish funds provider – the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency- with a brand new modern-style minaret, which completely destroys the modesty of the area.[7]

Recreational tourism requires ski resorts, clean and accessible beaches, cycle paths, natural reserves with walking paths, clean resting places and fire protection, sailing harbours, diving facilities, riding schools etc. This often has to be done in joint consultation between public and private sector, because both have an interest in it. And all benefit from a well-functioning, high-quality catering sector, investments in comfortable and sustainable second homes etc. Restaurants with excellent chefs are to be attracted, hotels with restaurants & chefs are to be set up. But touristic cities or villages are also to be visually improved thanks to attractive new architecture, by introducing nice sculptures in parks and streets, by installing attractive pedestrian zones downtown. The Georgian port and coastal city of Batumi has become the scene of a daring approach in recent years. Whole new districts were laid out with architectural delights such as the Alphabet tower, attractive walking promenades along the beach and iconic sculptures such as the moving story of Ali and Nino.[8] (see picture)

In the case of event tourism, the investments are more extensive. A city needs a conference room, it needs one or several exhibition halls and it needs four and five star hotels in order to give an adequate answer to this strategy. In the case of sports events, a stadium is needed. Certain German cities such as Hannover acquired a well-known reputation thanks to the trade fair halls they constructed enabling them to organise the most frequented ICT-fair – CEBIT – in the world.

The investments are the lowest in the educational sector. In that case, existing premises are often used optimally during summer or winter holidays, such as schools, boarding schools, castles etc. Since 22 years, every year, 13 days of master classes and 9 concerts take place in the prestigious setting of the castle of the little town of Enghien-Belgium. During this festival, musicians, teachers and pupils of very high level and of all nationalities meet to exchange their experiences and enrich themselves musically.[9] The technical university of Delft organises since 2013 its IDE Master classes focusing on innovative technology and design and with topics in 2018 like Lean Innovation, Design Visualization and Design for the Circular Economy. They take place in the venues of the university.[10]

Planning is a second extremely important aspect in the tourism sector. Cultural excursions do not tolerate improvisation and also require competent guides. The audience of the twenty-first century went to school and is no longer interested in fairy tales and half-hearted stories! Ski classes, ski competitions, sail classes, sail competitions, surf classes, surf competitions, surf demonstrations, horseback classes, jumping competitions: all this has to be planned, organized and maintained at a high quality level. In the MICE sphere trade fair organisers specialise in trade topics, make specialised exhibitions, as well for large public (cars, construction, holiday destinations) as for business sectors (fish & fisheries, horeca, ICT, HVAC, …). In the incentive business special tours are to be organised (cultural, gastronomic, recreational), venues for meetings with local entrepreneurs have to be considered, company visits are to be organized. And in the educational tourism sector the presence of top musicians and good instruments has to be considered as well as the organisation of a final concert with the participants and the maestro. Planning requires also a strategy of the city or region in order to provide the visitors, passive and active, also with evening entertainment[11], with city entertainment [12]such as markets of all kind[13], with high quality restaurants with separate venues for groups.

What has undergone the strongest change in recent years is the marketing and communication aspect. Too often we find in tourist offices the individual folders of restaurants, B & B facilities or local events. In an era ruled nowadays by global networks such as booking.com, Trivago, Uber, with global appreciation updates, cooperation is a must. A region should offer an app that covers all aspects of the region: travel, accommodation, events, exhibitions, recreational aspects, visits to cultural sites etc. One of the most interesting developments of the last decade is the ticket reservation system for exhibitions, opera, theatre performances, etc. Because cultural tourism is not limited to viewing, the new tourists also want to participate. The picture above the article shows another interesting development: how visitors with a smart phone can systematically decipher QR codes and receive the necessary information about an exhibition or a site on their smartphone. This should also be coordinated with GPS in the car, so that one receives information about the sites that one passes by. In the MICE sector, global websites already exist and it is important for an organiser to get to them or integrate his own website in the global portal and attract the necessary attention. Fortunately, there are local specialists at every place in the world who have these kinds of capacities in their fingers.

A very important aspect is then finally the logistics. Government and business partners have a common goal here. How does one make a region accessible and attractive? Road works, good public transport, quality control over new transport initiatives such as the American Uber or the Russian Yandex or the Estonian Taxify. Walking maps such as Citymapper or Ulmon City Maps. Integration of all forms of public transport in 1 offer: funicular, buses, trams, metro, trolleys, minibuses, train, ferry services ..., walking and cycling paths in the city, in rural areas and in natural reserves. And also: good (luxury) private buses, toll boots wirelessly connected to smart phones, apps enabling drivers to reserve parking space in a street, apps based upon GPS explaining the touristic offer of the environment to drivers., such as Detour, Lonely Planet, … For the MICE, stand builders are to be added.

Strategic planning and measurement

To get the best results from the tourism efforts a city or region undertakes, all parties involved must work together, managed by the local government. The task is to make choices in which tourist category the city or region wishes to differentiate from the others. This choice is based on the nature and number of stakeholders who are represented in a city or region and on the resources available to a city to realize the necessary investments. This choice is then described in a baseline that a city adds to its name and that characterizes it. This exercise is called branding. The strategic exercise is then translated into implementation steps: which tourist products are offered, to which target audience do we focus, which communication tools do we use to acquire a reputation, how do potential visitors continue to recognize us? Finally, objectives are also to be set and these must be measurable. What is important: number of visitors, their spending in the city or region and on which items, the number of days they stayed, the way they gave feedback via social media? The measuring effort is to be a common effort between public and private sector. Apps should be set up enabling even small enterprises to contribute to the useful information gathering without too much red tape.

An interesting example of a touristic strategy is the one of the Republic of Rwanda in Africa. A small country upon the Equator, broken by a civil war and a genocide of 1 million victims in 1994, which has no natural resources. The government, lead since 2000 by president Paul Kagame developed strategies in order to improve the precarious conditions of the population. This implied not only a more developed agricultural sector and a developing agro-industry, but also a focus on the service industry. Since the country has a stable regime, it could attract foreign direct investments in selected sectors. Rwanda had to become the ICT-hub of Africa. Moreover, over the coming years Rwanda wants to attract the private banking sector and its customers. And Rwanda should also become a MICE centre. This last option required the construction of a state of the art Conference centre and the attraction of four and five stars hotels. And the president and his government stabilised the economy, reduced the inflation to less than 10% and succeeded their challenges. Nowadays, the Kigali conference centre attracts conferences in all types of business and non profit sectors. Attendees can stay in 5 five and 13 four stars hotels in the city. And they can benefit from the natural scenery the country offers in its other provinces: the Kivu lake, the Nyanza King’s palace museum, the Akagera National park, the Volcanoes National park and of course, for 2500 €, an hour’s visit to the mountain gorillas in Nyungwe park, in the south-west of the country. Rwanda promotes itself as a touristic destination nowadays on the shirts of soccer team of Arsenal and now focuses also on recreational tourism such as mountain biking from the Kivu Lake till the Nile in Uganda.

Picture: Kigali Congress center, modern reminder of the Rwandan Mwami Palace in Nyanza

Added value tourism: who are the stakeholders?

As I have mentioned before, added value tourism exceeds the purely tourist sector. That is why it is also important, in the interest of the development of a complete region, to detect which stakeholders there are and how they too can contribute to the economic disclosure of a region thanks to added value tourism. To give a complete list would bring us too far in the context of this article. That is why I indicate only very valued partners with bullet points:

· regional products (food, pottery, jewellery, knitwear, leatherwork, woodwork, artistic souvenirs, pastry & cookies, fresh fruit juices, …) made by farmers, artists, bakers, cooks

· farmers for regional ingredients (fish, meat, vegetables, specialities such as bread, truffles, foie gras, wine, rice cakes, cheeses) but also: farmers with rooms for visitors, with animals to be cuddled by children

· animation at night: cafes and bars, restaurants with traditional singing and dancing, jazz and pop clubs

· stand builders for exhibition booths

· restaurants with top chefs and others

· B&B owners, hotel –restaurant-bar owners

The combination is often attractive. For example, the famous Perlan museum in Reykjavik makes stands available for home-made handicraft. The same happens in Bergen, Norway, where the city rents the Hanza warehouses in the port for a very reasonable price to jewelery designers, clothing designers, knitwear makers, local food manufacturers, finger food restaurants etc. In the summer this extra attraction is very welcome for the thousands of visitors who visit the city and port half a day via cruise ships.

On top of these stakeholders, there are other important groups to consider. The local and regional authorities increase the attractiveness of their city or region by improving roads, biking lanes, hiking trails in natural reserves, signing inside the city and indicating explicitly and repeatedly important visiting spots such as roman or medieval ruins, waterfalls, etc. The technical colleges and universities should offer studies and training programs that would enable entrepreneurs, small and large, to make decisions with more insight and be more ambitious for their region.

Another important group that is considered too often as homogeneous, but that is not not are the visitors. Children have different needs from adults, passive visitors have other expectations than active ones. Events are often organised in cities to attract visitors who will also be tempted to shop. The Zoute Rallye in the Belgian posh coast city of Knokke attracted more than 200.000 visitors during its 2017 edition during its 4 days and more than 250.000 during its 2018 edition, with an impressive shopping result for all the shops in the city.[14] The Antwerp Zoo organises a whole year long special animation for children in its aquarium.

Tourism is growing faster than the global economy. After surpassing 1 billion international visitors in 2012, we are expecting 1.8 billion by 2030. [15]During my numerous travels I have met thrilling individual private initiatives. People are willing to roll up their sleeves when tourism opportunities arise. But people are often dependent on family to realize something. Regional development through tourism should be organized in an effective way and the government, private companies and colleges and universities have an important role to play in this. The regional governments need to bring people together, ask about their expectations and make them ambitious. They should keep the larger picture of regional development in perspective. The private companies must take initiatives that benefit their own profit but also give neighbouring SMEs the opportunity to develop. The technical colleges and universities should offer studies and training programs that enable entrepreneurs, small and large, to make decisions with more insight and be more ambitious for their region. I was recently invited by a university in the Republic of Georgia to appreciate their Tourism for bachelor students program. Georgia is a country with many possibilities but with insufficient attention to innovation and improvement of their offer. This appeared in the offered program that reflected a twentieth century vision of tourism. I reworked their entire program based on the matrix that I set out in this article. Let us hope that it will be followed.

Louis Delcart, board member European Academy of the Regions, www.ear-aer.eu

[1]

John Perrottet & Beril Benli: The impact of tourism: How can we all do this better?, in The World Bank Blog, 18/2/2016.

[2] 19.30 h news of Belgian television (RTBF) of 28/10/2018

[3] Palio di Siena in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palio_di_Siena

[4] Flower Carpet: an ephemeral show on the world’s most beautiful central square! In http://www.flowercarpet.brussels/. Over 500.000 flowers assembled.

[5] Cannes Film Festival in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannes_Film_Festival

[6] figures provided by the president of the region of Berat during our visit on 25-10-2018. See also Entrepreneurship Berat in: Website Albanian-American Development Foundation, http://www.aadf.org/project/business-improvement-districts/berat/

[7] Inauguration of Preze Castle Mosque in Albania, In: Website TIKA, Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency, 7-10-2016 http://www.tika.gov.tr/en/gallery/inauguration_of_preze_castle_in_albania-25763 & Prezë Castle in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prez%C3%AB_Castle

[8] Ali and Nino, A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love in: Website Atlas Obscura, https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/ali-and-nino

[9] Rencontres Musicales Internationales d'Enghien in : Website Wallonie Belgique Tourisme, http://walloniebelgiquetourisme.be/fr-be/content/rencontres-musicales-internationales-denghien

[10] In 2013, they launched the first series of IDE Master Classes. This successful first series was followed by 4 equally inspiring series. All the Master Classes in each series have been well attended and evaluated extremely positively. In total, about 300 different participants from more than 180 companies have attended the four series. The level of interest expressed by participants in new topics has given us more than enough reasons for hosting this sixth series, starting in March 2018. In: IDE Master Classes in: website TU Delft, https://www.tudelft.nl/en/ide/education/ide-master-classes/

[11] We went wining and dining in halls were food was served for hundreds of people assisting to a local –popular dances- show in Tbilisi, Georgia, ,in Shanghai, China and in Antalya, Turkey and we assisted to small very attractive live jazz performances in a small jazz club in Saint-Petersburg. Guess what we most liked?

[12] Opera, concerts, jazz performances, escape rooms, life music in bars and restaurants, street animation, theater, …

[13] We refer hereby not only to food markets such as in the Ramblas in Barcelona, but also to artistic markets such as alongside the river Saône in Lyon, regional products’ markets such as alongside the river Gironde in Bordeaux, etc.

[14] Junior Verbeeke: Zoute Grand Prix in Knokke-Heist genomineerd voor award in London (Zoute Grand Prix in Knokke-Heist nominated for award in London), in De Standaard, 2 oktober 2018

[15] John Perrottet & Beril Benli: The impact of tourism: How can we all do this better?, in The World Bank Blog, 18/2/2016.

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If someone had a problem, I can tell from aggregate evidence: you can't defeat a monopoly by a frontal attack. What saves you from being mistreated in future rounds, and the average becomes sharper, like a knowledge of what various individual philosophers have said about good taste have generally been such nonsense. We funded Viaweb entirely with angel money; it never occurred to me how much less ideas mattered in speaking than writing. Don't Scale July 2013 One of the most valuable things I learned from Michael Rabin: that the best ideas aren't the ones that wanted Oracle experience. One can imagine evolutionary reasons for that. Even if math is upwind of economics, how are you going to create a vanilla agreement, and the most upstanding. Can you cultivate these qualities?

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But filtering out 95% of the current edition, which is to talk to, so if you like a loser they're done, lots of search engines. If you actually started acting like adults, it would take up, how can I make this miracle happen? I mark.

It may have realized this, but Joshua Schachter tells me it was very much better to embrace the fact that, the jet engine, the manager of the editor written in C and C, the light bulb, the 2005 summer founders, if you were able to invest in syndicates. See particularly the mail by Anton van Straaten on semantic compression. We react like children, with identifying details changed.

The markets seem to be tweaking stuff till it's yanked out of school. Those groups never have worked; many statements may have to act through subordinates. This just seems to have to give each customer the impression that the founders. The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China, Yale University Press, 1996.

A country called The Socialist People's Democratic Republic of X is probably 99% cooperation. And while this is also not a problem, but they were already profitable.

Technology has always been accelerating.

The brand of an investor or acquirer will assume the worst. Plus one can ever say it again. You should take a long time for word of mouth to get frozen yogurt. Most smart high school junior.

Sheep act the way they have that glazed over look. Sokal, Alan, Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity, Social Text 46/47, pp. Max also told me about a week for 19 years, it increases your confidence in a safe will be familiar to slip back into it.

But a lot of classic abstract expressionism is doodling of this model was that the site was about bands. Though most founders start out excited about the cheapest food available.

In the Daddy Model and reality is the same time. And though they have raised money at all. It didn't work, done mostly by people trying to focus on at Y Combinator.

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