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How heavy? and other matters
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How heavy? and other matters

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Morning All,

A slightly admin-y email today.

First up: How Heavy? - the surprisingly popular "lecture with funny bits" I did at the Edinburgh Fringe this year- is coming to London’s West End for a short run later this month at the Museum of Comedy on September 28th and 29th.

It's a show about the history of weights and measures, and is, I promise you, a VERY interesting subject. Weights and measures effectively determine how you perceive the world. It's a nice, early 7pm start. You'll be done by 8pm - free to go and have dinner or whatever you fancy - and will give your evening a strong intellectual foundation.

Please come along. You can get tickets here.

Second up: there have been some significant announcements by two of the companies in my portfolio - major holdings - in the last 24 hours. I will be updating paid subscribers on these asap, hopefully later today.

Third up: this article was supposed to all subscribers last week, but due to a cock-up at HQ it only went out to paid subscribers. The YouTube version has been very popular - it’s obviously caught a nerve - so in case you want to read it, here is a link:

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Listen now (8 min) | My apologies if you have received this twice. Cock up at HQ. Over a Zoom call earlier in the week, I heard some people discussing the “Russian Davos” which they had attended back in June. I didn't even know such a thing existed, such is my Western, Ptolemaic view of the world. (Ptolemaic, by the way, to save you having to look it up, means you think you…
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Until next time.

Dominic

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