Alex Garland
alexdgarland.bsky.social
Alex Garland
@alexdgarland.bsky.social
Software engineer by day, aspiring polymath (jack-of-all-trades?) more generally - currently most interested in markets, politics, psychology/ social dynamics and how they all interact
Fantastic story/ set of visualisations (screenshots don’t do justice to the full interactive versions) from @financialtimes.com showing the utter grandiose folly of Neom / The Line... ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
November 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Flicking through Nick Hornby's 31 Songs - generally kinda sloppy, specifically he **really* doesn't get hip-hop - his example of "this song adds nothing to the sample" is Rakim's "I Know You Got Soul", which yes has a debt to Byrd but also has flows on it that basically reinvented the genre 🤦‍♂️🎤
October 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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America: No Kings

Britain: No Dukes of York
October 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Showing up to a meeting to sagely say "code quality should be higher" and then immediately leaving
September 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Enjoyed latest Odd Lots with @tracyalloway.bsky.social @weisenthal.bsky.social talking to Raphael Bostic from Atlanta Fed bloom.bg/3GYMcE2.

Discussion of how current reality plus pandemic overhang make hiring predictions tricky was especially fascinating; tried to diagram to help my understanding.
May 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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April 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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If you’re coming to Bluesky from TikTok, the best advice I can give you is that every post is always 100% serious and should be responded to with a severe earnestness no matter what
January 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM