{"id":14877,"date":"2019-10-22T20:52:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T20:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=14877"},"modified":"2019-10-22T23:24:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T23:24:17","slug":"what-im-up-to-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2019\/10\/22\/what-im-up-to-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"What I’m up to this week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve taken a week off work specifically to write stuff \u2014 sit down, open laptop, don’t play Angry Birds. (Well, less<\/em> Angry Birds.) So far it’s been going well.<\/p>\n

(It’s half-term too, so I’ll also be spending quality time with the offspring. Today we went out and bought the kid a book,<\/a> and the loved one got a Tab A 2019,<\/a> which is actually noticeably lighter and\u00a0much<\/em> thinner than our current Tab A 2016’s. A 5GB\/month data SIM on Vodafone would have been \u00a315 a month, and the tablet upgrade was \u00a317 a month \u2014 I figure \u00a348 over two years for a \u00a3200 tablet is a pretty good deal. Never do your upgrades online, always go into the shop if you can.)<\/p>\n

I don’t promise a lot of blog posts this week \u2014 because I’m writing something comprehensive on the short and disastrous history of Libra, such as it is.<\/p>\n

I may end up with a short book, I may end up with a series of posts. ($5-and-up patrons<\/a> will get the lot, of course!) If it’s a book, it won’t be a hilarious saga of dumb criminals like Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain<\/em><\/a> \u2014 just a slab of finance journalism, which I’ll then have the task of keeping interesting.<\/p>\n

I spent Sunday until today reading literally every article in the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal on Libra \u2014 the iterative process of reading a few thousand words and getting maybe a sentence out of it. Total output so far: about 4,000 words of first draft book-quality fragments.<\/p>\n

Next up: literally every article on Libra in Bloomberg, Reuters, the New York Times and the BBC. Then contacting Facebook to see if I can get them to talk to me …<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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