‘If we walk far enough,’ says Dorothy, ‘we shall sometime come to some place.’
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Amit Panhale retweeted
"Whoever is in your life,
those who harm you,
those who help you;
those whom you know
and those whom you do not know —
let them off the hook,
help them off the hook."
Leonard Cohen on anger and the meaning of resistance themarginalian.org/2024/07/1…
I came across this wonderful resource on India's economy in numbers, put together using official data measure.thisindianlife.today…
This the current universe of Podcasts I listen to. Everything is Everything is no longer doing new episodes. The Marked Corner is my own podcast that has one episode. The shows I almost never miss a new episode of are Watching the Wheels, Empire, Acquired and The Seen and The Unseen. For the others, I may miss episodes if the guest or the subject are not of my interest or I am not curious about.
After listening to a thought provoking Watching the Wheels episode on what our approach to protecting environment should be without pulling back on development and growth, I have ordered these two books. Looking forward to reading them. Also, link to the episode youtu.be/froFGPKI8vg?si=2iG1…
The real narrative of this Liv - City game is that City has again needed an unfair advantage to win it. That’s that.
Amit Panhale retweeted
Anytime I am asked for someone’s private information, I politely say, ‘their story to tell, not mine’ and leave it at that.
I feel that most people who trade information on other people’s lives do not know more ways of forming connection with someone. So they go for the lowest hanging fruit.
If you have more to offer, and ability to listen, you can connect with others on deeper things.
Recently I completed listening to this fascinating story on Joseph Stalin on @EmpirePodUK. The more I read / listen / watch stories of autocrats, I see so many similarities in how they rose through the ranks, gathered power and stayed or expanded their power. And none of it is happy reading. It’s horrible what power can do to men. youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
What a drama queen.
🔴⚪️ Mikel Arteta: “On my first day as new Arsenal manager, I had demolished the office”.
“I just destroyed the office and put everything on the floor — the computers, the laptops, the cables. Then I brought everybody in”, told @TheAthleticFC.
“I said: ‘If you want me to help you enjoy your profession and your life and the passion that we all share, you have two minutes to put this in order and be ready to work together.’”
“That could have been my managerial career because if that would have stayed the same way, I had no job anymore!”.
You said it.
One guy bows out carried on the shoulders of his nation, not forgetting to thank his teammates generously for the triumphs. Another bows out while giving himself another fellatio, probably his fourth of the evening, demanding his country and team thank him for his existence, demanding his coach apologise for making him.. <checks notes> warm up.
Messi vs Ronaldo has not been a debate on the pitch for a decade now; off the pitch, there's only one of them you'd pass on as a hero to your children.
Amit Panhale retweeted
One guy bows out carried on the shoulders of his nation, not forgetting to thank his teammates generously for the triumphs. Another bows out while giving himself another fellatio, probably his fourth of the evening, demanding his country and team thank him for his existence, demanding his coach apologise for making him.. <checks notes> warm up.
Messi vs Ronaldo has not been a debate on the pitch for a decade now; off the pitch, there's only one of them you'd pass on as a hero to your children.
Amit Panhale retweeted
One of the longest lasting legacies of colonialism is the brown elite’s deep desire to be treated differently from the other “browns who are poor and not educated and elite like me”.
That somehow the racists operate with some system of meritocracy.
No. You will not be treated differently you fools.
Walt Whitman famously wrote in Song of Myself:
“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
Like all of us, Gandhi too contained multitudes. There are things about him we can admire, things that reveal contradictions, views and positions that evolved or changed over time, and places where he was simply wrong.
This episode of Watching the Wheels, The Multitudes of Mahatma Gandhi, does a really interesting job of looking at Gandhi in all that complexity, rather than reducing him to either a hero or a villain.
open.spotify.com/episode/6hA…
Really enjoyed this episode. The bit about how each employee has a stake in the company doing well in the long run, is a rare thing I guess for a company from before 2000.
I am a simple man. When @AcquiredFM publishes a podcast on a retailer, I read the transcript.
I enjoyed their new episode on The Home Depot. Worth a deep dive if you like to nerd out on retail. (TIL that they tried to woo Jamie Dimon (yes!) to be the CEO once.
One (of many) which stood out from the episode; this one on how they dont call it HQ but Store Support Center is cool.
Always wonderful work from Melissa. Makes you think how sport is not just sport at the highest level. It involves conglomerates, nation states, oligarchs, societies, lots of money, a few rich people and lots of poor and middle income people.
Poor - and biased - response from Andy Burnham on Manchester City being found guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules by an Independent Commission.
He says “I can’t intervene *more* in the process,” which requires an explanation in itself.
Then offers commentary on previous proceedings he felt was unfair, AND states he wouldn’t want to lose the club’s owners who have “been such a huge partner in the building of modern Manchester. Obviously, the building of Manchester City into the global force that it is.”
How was that force built?
And on the investment into the city itself, per a 2022 Guardian report: “Nine sites were sold to Sheikh Mansour at a fraction of their value, and well below what other plots nearby fetched. They were on leases lasting 999 years, well beyond the norm. And the fund shifted what had been public assets to companies registered in Jersey.
“That walk along the water from New Islington into Ancoats now passes blocks of privatised land owned in an offshore tax haven, which yields millions upon millions for a key member of the wealthy elite running a surveillance state halfway across the globe. One of the greatest cities in the world has sold itself to a senior figure in a brutal autocracy – and not even for a good price.”