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Fueling up is much more important than last-minute cramming—and at a higher level, the ability to recover will be pivotal. In long chess tournaments that may last for over two weeks, one of the most decisive factors is a competitor’s ability to sleep at night. Even the strongest Grandmasters need their energy to come through in the homestretch.
The Art of Learning
Josh Waitzkin
An investor tells me that with each investment, Peter Thiel likes to ask: What do I know about this company that other investors don’t know? In other words: Do we have an edge? It’s only with some sort of informational asymmetry, goes the thinking, that one can not only beat the market but dominate it, and get the kind of return that takes a $500,000 check and turns it into a billion.
The inability to field a reliable diagnostic, to deploy it in scale, and the overreliance on syndromic surveillance that was inherently flawed, were historic failures that left us badly at risk. If, as a later analysis has suggested, the first case in Seattle (the one diagnosed on January 20) never started a chain of transmission, and the subsequent outbreak was the result of a second case that had arrived in the city much later, then the virus hadn’t yet gained a foothold in the community until February.36 The window to act on the initial cases that we knew about in Seattle, and the ones we didn’t know about in New York, San Francisco, and other cities, may have been open longer than we thought—if only we had had a way to test for the virus and isolate it. It wasn’t even a hard test to design and manufacture. And still, we badly bungled its rollout.
Uncontrolled Spread
Scott Gottlieb
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