An article in the Irish Times about Ireland’s apparently poor standards of education contains a fascinating insight into the ways in which the Irish business elite set the political agenda. According to the article, Google Ireland’s vice president convened a meeting with Education Minister Batt O’Keefe and several other tech executives where they basically scolded […]
Fringe Thoughts
“A journal … also encourages you to capture “fringe thoughts”: various ideas which may be by-products of everyday life, snatches of conversation overheard on the street, or, for that matter, dreams. Once noted, these may lead to more systematic thinking, as well as lend intellectual relevance to more directed experience.” C.Wright Mills. 1952
