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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong — especially if one is promptly found out.

John Maynard Keynes

This is A Week to Critique – a repository for ideas which are good, bad and/or unwittingly plagiarised.


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In their Binary Towers

Howard Reed | Software engineering is the new theology The contest for the most arcane discipline is not likely to be resolved anytime soon but the one that is merely avoiding the title by sheer number of adherents – software engineering1 – is indirectly pursuing a more consequential contest. This here is to argue that…

Pyramid Scheme

Howard Reed | How to elect a President It has been near to twenty-four years since the closest Presidential election in American history – one eventually decided by someone called Chad from memory – and in the meantime no particular tending to the clunking machine of American democracy has been attempted. At least however their…

Escape Room

Howard Reed | There was no ‘escape from history’ for Australia’s first inhabitants and that is why the Voice is necessary The Referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice is a question I’ve been grappling with less and less reference to the wider debate. I sense that both sides have cogent points to…