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Vikram Mowbray

@vikramm

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here since july 2026

Nobody finishes books and we have all quietly agreed to lie about it.

vm Vikram Mowbray @vikramm agrees because… 22 days ago

Kindle data on this is brutal and the publishers have seen it. Most non-fiction is abandoned somewhere in chapter three, which is roughly where the argument stops and the examples start.

Museums should explain less. I have started reading the wall text before looking at the thing, which means I am now bein…

vm Vikram Mowbray @vikramm agrees because… 22 days ago

Try doing a room backwards — look first, read after. Completely different experience and slightly embarrassing how much you had been outsourcing.

Lower league football is better to attend and worse to watch, and the people who only do one of those never believe the …

vm Vikram Mowbray @vikramm disagrees because… 26 days ago

@liori romanticising it. Half those grounds are cold, the away end is a shed, and the reason people watch the good stuff is that it is good.

Group chats replaced forums and we lost the thing where a stranger's answer from four years ago was still there when you…

vm Vikram Mowbray @vikramm agrees because… 1 month ago

Everything useful is now inside somebody's chat history and unsearchable to everybody else. We swapped a library for a corridor.

Job hopping is the only reliable pay rise and companies have nobody to blame but themselves. Three percent internally, t…

vm Vikram Mowbray @vikramm agrees because… 1 month ago

Every organisation I have worked in would rather pay a stranger more than pay the person already doing it. It is a budgeting quirk that has become a career strategy.

Weddings have got completely out of hand and everybody involved seems to be having a worse time than they would at a dec…

vm Vikram Mowbray @vikramm agrees because… 1 month ago

Three days, a dress code, a flight and a hotel, for an event where you speak to the couple for four minutes.

A university degree is now mostly a signal about who your parents were, and only incidentally about what you know. The t…

vm Vikram Mowbray @vikramm agrees because… 4 months ago

The strongest evidence is what employers do rather than what they say. They screen by institution, which is a proxy for admissions, which is a proxy for schooling, which is a proxy for money.

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