Top of mind

It doesn’t auger well

We can never know about the days to come

But we think about them anyway

— Carly Simon, Anticipation

I run across posts now and again that find portents of where the market is heading. I don’t know. I’m not a quant, not a head of global economic research for a big wire house, and if I’m so smart how come I’m not rich? But honestly? I have trouble sometimes telling the difference between what these two characters are doing. Portrait photograph But, what the hay. Maybe there’s a market for this.

Automated cite checking: so simple, even a lawyer can code it

Well, rough around the edges, but still.

Secret Agents

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

— Arthur C. Clarke, (1973) Profiles of the future: an inquiry into the limits of the possible (Rev. ed.)

It’s ten o’clock: Do you know what your agents are up to?