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Prepping some notes for a talk/interview tomorrow on the origin and current state of “progress studies”. I wanted to touch on some of its precursors—the intellectual threads that intersected to

“Any other system would fix these problems.… But here we are, stuck with a system that somehow manages to fail everybody for different reasons.”Employer Provided Health Insurance Delenda Est, by

Every startup founder has the experience of their investors, advisers and friends periodically sending them links to competitors. “Check this out FYI”When I was running @fieldbookapp I would both love

Most people see @BillGates's life in two parts: Act 1: make money, Act 2: give it away. The first seen as greed/ambition, the second as generosity.I think this is a

Myth: polio was already declining before the introduction of the polio vaccine in 1955Fact: the epidemics were actually getting worsehttps://ourworldindata.org/grapher/reported-paralytic-polio-cases-and-deaths-in-the-united-states-since-1910 1952: pe

Amazing how many people think you can just make arbitrary interventions in the economy, like “cancel rent!” or “keep paying workers while businesses are shut down!”, as if those actions

This basically happened to me.It started in 8th-grade algebra and ended with me “dropping out” of high school.https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1199621578280988673 In 8th grade my algebra class was extremely slow and started off

Smallpox was one of the worst diseases humanity has ever faced—and also the only human disease we have ever eradicated. It was also the first disease with a vaccine.You may

I have a different take.Chance, unforeseen events happen all the time. Good and bad, big and small.“Luck” is the perspective that focuses on the chance, unforeseen nature of these events.