I know I am not the only one that found a steep curve into Ravel. It is because in my case I am learning economics, Systems dynamics, maths and the program all at once. We could, together, produce an online manual and video demonstration that would help spread Ravel into schools and universities and the homes of home_hackers. To this end I created this survey to capture your experiences with hurdles. When enough have completed this we can start finding ways t help us all from the paddling pool into the big boys' and girls, pool. Eventually the deep end who knows. Please, especially if you have struggled, fill in this survey https://app.harmonica.chat/chat?s=64237d96-07fd-4ad4-a28f-1efffb2a4964

I confess to laughing at some passages in an article about what is seemingly called ‘Corporate Bullshit’, arising from work by Shane Littrell, a cognitive psychologist at Cornell University. See https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/23/corporate-speak-study For example, is there any meaning in the artificially-generated phrases- “we will actualize a renewed level of cradle-to-grave credentialing” or “we will pressure-test a renewed level of adaptive coherence”? Initially, my reaction was to doubt that such empty linguistic inventiveness could play much real-world role - but then I thought of phrases like ‘rational expectations’ used to mean knowledge of the future, and my doubt diminished. Might this at least partly underlie the mental garbage within orthodox economics? Can you think of other examples that might contain econo-corporate bullshitting? The article concludes - “Anybody can fall for bullshit, and we all, depending on the situation, fall for bullshit when it is kind of packaged up to appeal to our biases.”

Three distinct viewpoints on the use of AI tools are given in : 1) ‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/mar/10/ai-impact-professors-students-learning 2) ‘I’ve taught thousands of people how to use AI – here’s what I’ve learned’ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2026/mar/10/teaching-ai-what-i-learned 3 ‘We asked experts about the most responsible ways to use AI tools – here’s what they said’ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2026/mar/18/how-to-use-ai-tools-expert-guide AI tools gives a simulacrum of intelligence much of the time, but what I think is clear is that intelligence has to be supplied by the tool user to be reliably effective. The third reference is the most useful, I’d say.

To me, this is the most iconic article on money ever written, and left us is with this:: “Lending creates deposits” That’s the beginning of the end for traditional neocon models…or maybe just the end! It was so powerful I extrapolated it into a 300+ page book with 40 charts: https://a.co/d/4nRyMJs What have you read by a central bank that you thought was insightful? Please post links or papers, feel free to share commentary…

Nothing gets my goat more than economists messing up people's lives. My latest rant (with solid statistics to back it up, of course) is the way economists have pushed the majority of the US population to misery, their health and their living situation. 77 percent of young men are so bad they can't be conscripted. See if you agree with me! https://www.patreon.com/posts/hysteresis-and-146837566?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link