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Midweek greetings to all, as we unveil the 257th chapter of Weekly Olio—a delightful concoction of laughter, insight, and a sprinkle of mystery. Within these pages, you'll discover a handpicked selection of fascinating finds from the vast realms of the internet.
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Subtext by Zerodha interviews Kyle Chan on China's manufacturing dominance, driven by unique industrial policy, entrepreneurial culture, and state dynamics rather than perfect central plans. It explores excess capacity, price wars, clean energy gains from crises, and lessons for India's potential industrial rise.
The Infographic 💹
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The Short Read 📝
Sir David Attenborough - 100 not out - Play to Potential
Written to mark Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday on 8 May 2026, this article by DJ (of the Play to Potential newsletter) identifies three qualities that make Attenborough an inspiring model for a well-lived century.
First, his enduring sense of awe — he approaches the natural world with genuine wonder and crafts his films so audiences feel it too. Second, his commitment to a core purpose — his childhood fascination with nature never waned, and in later life deepened into a moral obligation to sound the alarm on environmental decline for future generations. Third, his ability to stay relevant — he evolved from a presenter who inspired through beauty alone into a fierce climate advocate, and is reportedly the only person to have won BAFTAs across black-and-white, colour, HD, 3D, and 4K eras. The author holds him up as proof of what sustained purpose can achieve over a lifetime. Read more…
The Long Read 📜
Embrace the Edge - by Charles Foster
In "Embrace the Edge!", Charles Foster argues that creativity, innovation, and moral greatness arise not from comfortable centres but from margins and boundaries. He draws on evolutionary biology — noting how islands and genetic fringes produce new species — and on theology, suggesting that the Judaeo-Christian creation story is fundamentally about the making of edges. Foster contrasts edge-dwelling with the centralising impulse of cities, from ancient Mesopotamia to modern metropolises, which homogenise and suppress novelty.
He illustrates his thesis across domains: religious founders (Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad) operated from the periphery; great art emerges from altered states of consciousness at the border of ordinary awareness; ethical heroism flourishes among those with nothing. Even physiologically, organisms thrive through hormesis — being stressed at the edge of their tolerances. Foster concludes that edges are the generative fabric of the cosmos, and that embracing them is essential to human flourishing. Read more…
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