Oh okay here’s Tim Wilson saying it. Weird for me to be agreeing with him, but here we are.

That was stark

It’s pretty full on. Can’t believe I lived like this for so long in the Middle East. It’s so draining.

The moral of the story is: dear banks, how cool is human contact for solving problems and making people feel good about banking with you.

And without even blinking he said, Come into my office, we’ll sort it out. And we did.

About a year ago, he also helped me when I was at the absolute end of my tether with a kafkaesque situation. I was in the long queue and he was going down the line just checking everyone was in the right place. When he got to me I said, If I look grumpy it’s because I am.

But adding that the ones I do pay for, I'm very happy to be paying for. I probably don't have the budget to pay for me. Maybe there's some kind of aggregated model ahead?

And I do get that it's a bit of income for writers and some have used it to establish magazine-style publications. But the long term vision for this model is still kind of puzzling to me.

I actually (and actively and often grumpily) unsubscribe to the ones where I'm happily reading away then get hit with a 'this is for paid subscribers.' It's too frustrating to invest myself in what I'm reading then find out I can't read the rest of it.

They’re just astonishing, aren’t they?