Finished reading: The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison continues the great Cemeteries of Amalo series. I’m impressed with how casually and simply such a rich and complex world is created in this series 📚

New notebook day!

George is recovering well from recent, minor surgery by sleeping at my feet

🔗 Matt Gurney: How Hollywood screwed with our civic expectations

Why do we assume the same government that is, for instance, struggling to fill potholes in my city, or hire enough nurses in my province, or fix a federal payroll system, is going to be more competent when presented with something totally out of the blue? This flies in the face of all of our lived experiences with government. It’s a generous assumption of state capacity that is, to put it charitably, unearned.

Finished reading: Blindsight by Peter Watts is an interesting mix of sci-fi, horror, and philosophy. I enjoyed it. Vampires in space!📚

🎧 I enjoyed Season 7 of Strong Songs and am happy to be a Patreon supporter

Glad it’s Friday

🎶 Some good, new albums that fit well together:

🇨🇦 Gloves Off is a thought provoking series (so far) on how Canada could respond to recent geopolitical developments

I was pleased by Glenn Jenkins' invitation to return to his Program on Investment Appraisal and Risk Analysis at Queen’s University and describe an approach to project appraisal and economic assessment. This is my third year participating and I’m consistently impressed by the quality of questions and level of engagement from the participants.

Download: transport-economics-and-appraisal.pdf