Rory Sutherland

Vice Chairman, Ogilvy Group
The Spectator's Wiki Man.

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

@mariusschober @stannostudio Destroys serendipity too

[Ben Judah @b_judah]

Great news.

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

@stalmico Ausekla iela 7, Riga LV-1010 Latvia

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

Atonishingly good meal here. One of the best ever.

https://t.co/iJY2tqQ34a

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

@DuncanStott The whole place is a culinary delight.

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

@DougGarnett @FinanceDirCFO This is my view as well. You do need a camera for augmented reality, to provide context, but the need to actually film people is questionable. All the more so for Meta, since their excellent Portal products largely failed over consumer privacy concerns.

[Andrew Denny @albiondumsday]

@rorysutherland Now *here's* an idea https://t.co/8zSwspdsQK

[Praveen Vaidyanathan @v_praveen]

The pursuit of status subsidises access for everyone else

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[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

@tom__ballard The latter. But the former would help!

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

Please God! Trillions are being spent on data centres and AI chips, but the investment in design and UX seems to be zero.

Soon, someone will come along with a B-plus model and an A-plus interface and VHS the whole thing.

The Blackberry was objectively much better than the first Iphone.

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

@Wozzo22 It would have cost peanuts on the 70s.

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Charles Hawtrey's old house is for sale.

https://t.co/jyjyLY2Cxh

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

@RainbowOfLove24 The Deal Conservation Area Stasi are at another level.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

This map shows annual truck traffic on European main roads, colored by route distance. The map gives a sense of on which corridors the long distance traffic travels and how far the infrastructure interdependencies within the network road reach. Very helpful information when planning charging infrastructure. Source: https://t.co/UxbVIPHAeq HT Jakob Rogstadius

[Sebastian David Lees @sebs_tweets]

The first bank with the guts to launch a card like this would get thousands of sign-ups overnight. Our heritage belongs on our currency. Shame on the Bank of England.

[Ben Zaranko @BenZaranko]

You’ve probably heard of Henry – the High Earner, Not Rich Yet. But what about his nemesis, Richard – who Retired In a Comfortable House And Refuses to Downsize?

There are quite a lot of Richards out there. They’re the subject of my column for today’s Observer (link below).

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

I live on one of the green bits. I also grew up in the Wye Valley, so have a high bar. The greenbelt runs the whole gamut from exquisite parkland to utterly worthless dross.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

The UK has what has to be the world's most obviously fixable housing crisis.

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

All-purpose trigger-warning: "views expressed by real people in the past may be disturbing to imaginary people in the future".

[John_Hawkins @JohnHawkin71262]

@ClarkeMicah @Lord_Steerforth Do the people who added this note not realise that the views they espouse will be outdated and wrong in the future? History doesn't stop.

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

@GarryLavin @ClarkeMicah @DiscJim I would argue that someone driving from their home to a railway station to take a train into London is likely making a worthy journey. What you may need to do is increase the availability (and reduce the price) of station parking, not slow down cars or speed up trains.

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This book is superb.

[Jake @JakeAlex92]

@rorysutherland The house plays a central role in the final third of All the Devils Are Here by David Seabrook, a tremendously sinister exploration of the Kent coast

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

@anicoll5 I think he was banned eventually.

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

@Milnerpa For me, certainly.