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[Gerald Ashley @Gerald_Ashley]

Just in case you missed it last month
My blog on Clouds, Clocks and Plastic controls
https://t.co/PGO55DlOWq

[Equitile Investments @Equitile]

Emerging Markets – Travellers Tales🎙️

Is it time to rebadge some emerging markets as 'emerged'? Richard Knight joins @Gerald_Ashley & @xGeorgeCooper to contrast the UK with the dynamism of Southeast Asia and the rapid recovery of Argentina

Listen Here👇
https://t.co/PdjofslmT6

[Equitile Investments @Equitile]

PODCAST 🎙️

Is the Gulf conflict is pushing the global economy to its "elastic limit."?

@xGeorgeCooper & @Gerald_Ashley discuss the US-Iran war and a massive supply chain crisis that goes beyond $110+ oil - threatening global food & fertilizer for years.

https://t.co/ZAgAhmEcU9

[Sebastian David Lees @sebs_tweets]

Social Media Addiction is the New Seatbelt (and Meta is Unsafe at Any Speed)
https://t.co/BIOKgwQk77

[Fat Tony's @FatTonysPodcast]

🍻 FAT TONY'S HAPPY HOUR🍷

Saturday 28th March... on HERE for the first time. We'll start a video hang out. Come join!

8pm London, 9pm Europe 1PM PCT, 4pm ET.

[Sebastian David Lees @sebs_tweets]

Why Knowledge is About to Become a Utility
https://t.co/80HDjpMJeZ

[Sebastian David Lees @sebs_tweets]

The Architecture of Decay: Why We Hate a Scuffed Skyscraper

https://t.co/yW7N0XxezM

[Datablast @datablast]

RT @sebs_tweets: Beware the IDEs of March.

[Sebastian David Lees @sebs_tweets]

We used to collect encyclopedias we never opened, now we collect URLs we’ll never click

https://t.co/mFxulVYHCV

[Sara @NahanniFinanci1]

An old one but a good one perhaps: The most wonderful interviewer---a true gentleman @sebs_tweets
https://t.co/XJzXJIY0W5

[Sebastian David Lees @sebs_tweets]

Why Attention Should Cost a Penny

https://t.co/1u4UyKx9q8

[Sebastian David Lees @sebs_tweets]

At the Winter Olympics, The Canadian and British teams are under fire for double-touching - re-gripping the handle of the stone after the hog line. To the umpires, this is cheating. To a systems thinker, however, it’s just the friction of a complex system meeting a Procrustean bed.

We have a strange habit of categorising the exact same behaviour differently depending on the walls surrounding it. In a Ludic realm (the world of games and sports) we have rigid, artificial constraints. If you find a way to gain leverage that wasn't intended by the creators of the rulebook, we call it cheating.

But move that same behaviour into the Complex realm (the world of markets, evolution, or tech), and suddenly, the terminology shifts. We don't call it cheating; we call it disruption. When a biological organism evolves a way to bypass a predator's defence, we call it adaptation. When a coder finds a "bug" that actually improves processing speed, it’s an innovation.

The reality is that cheating and innovation are often the same cognitive act - the discovery of an unexploited affordance. I think we're uncomfortable culturally with that admission.

The difference between a hack and a cheat is often just a matter of branding. If you want to be hailed as a genius, do it in a marketplace. If you want to be sent home in disgrace, do it on the ice.

[Sebastian David Lees @sebs_tweets]

I’ve written a new blog post…

Withnail and AI - We’ve gone on holiday to the future by mistake.

You can read it here 👇
https://t.co/4OMFmsYEXA

[Sebastian David Lees @sebs_tweets]

New Blog Post - The Sociology of the Crease

Apple isn't late to folding phones because they can't bend glass; they are late because they understand social friction better than anyone else...👇

https://t.co/erkx0kC9Kp

[Gerald Ashley @Gerald_Ashley]

Nice interview of my colleague @xGeorgeCooper at @equitile by @truemagic68 & @MichaelWilsontv discussing his idea of Bubbles (plural) & The Anti Bubble landscape in current markets
https://t.co/HTKbTIlWyb

[Fat Tony's @FatTonysPodcast]

PODAST🎙️

Stephen Wolfram joins Sebastian to map the computational fabric of reality, linking the practical discipline of strategy to the Ruliad, AI, and the quest for immortality.

Listen Here 👇
https://t.co/AnbJsEOK5R

[Datablast @datablast]

We'll be closed for the holidays as of tomorrow. Merry Christmas to everyone, and see you again in 2026!

[Datablast @datablast]

That pure pain of early 2000s computers just randomly crashing or freezing forever for no reason, making you lose all your previous work.

[Gerald Ashley @Gerald_Ashley]

New Equitile Conversations Podcast Now Out
@xGeorgeCooper & I chat with @DMcWilliams_UK about what needs to change to improve Growth. We discuss improving incentives, look at taxation, over bearing regulation & just have time to discuss our favourite cars
https://t.co/gyYmBv1k7k

[Gerald Ashley @Gerald_Ashley]

Now out - The @equitile 2025 Reading List, a collection of the books recommended by @xGeorgeCooper & myself whilst recording this year's episodes of Equitile Conversations
https://t.co/EO9sYvYwsY