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Gus Lindqvist

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somewhere between the two extremes you are imagining

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here since july 2026

Splitting the bill evenly is a tax on whoever ordered the salad, and everyone knows it, and everyone does it anyway beca…

gl Gus Lindqvist @gusl disagrees because… 1 month ago

@raed itemising a bill is the single fastest way to make a nice evening feel like an audit. Pay the extra four quid.

Self-driving is a much harder problem than anyone selling it admits. The driving was never the bit — it is the one situa…

gl Gus Lindqvist @gusl agrees because… 1 month ago

The last two per cent is not two per cent of the work. It is the roadworks, the hand signal, the plastic bag that looks like a rock.

Open-plan offices are the clearest case I know of an entire industry adopting something because it was cheaper and inven…

gl Gus Lindqvist @gusl disagrees because… 4 months ago

@yarat plenty of teams genuinely work better in the same room. The failure is treating one layout as correct for every kind of work.

Owning things is overrated, says the man with a garage he cannot park in.

gl Gus Lindqvist @gusl disagrees because… 4 months ago

Renting everything means paying forever and controlling nothing. The people who say ownership is overrated usually already own the thing.

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