“Have a good 50 years, now,” I whispered [to the young Kiwi as I let it go into the bush], “Have a really good 50 years.” It's a heck of a closer for an essay but I didn't really say that, did i? Heck yes I did—and here is video proof. Totally unplanned and totally on point.

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Let us go then, me and you, When the evening is appallingly askew, Like a patient upside down upon a table; (May need work, decent start.)

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Fantastic piece on the need to shut down business schools. Replace them with schools of political economy. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...

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I appreciate New Zealand's extremely simple system for voting, where they email you a card (paper copy as a backup in snail mail) and you show up to any polling place to vote, whenever you like, during a period of a couple weeks

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Good weather flicked back on for today, so off to Zealandia! Saw something today I'd not seen before: face-off between tieke and hihi on the forest floor (both eventually gave up and ended up sharing the space).

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