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AI, with its perceived threat to automate a vast array of jobs, seems like the apotheosis of post-scarcity existence, but in reality it just highlights how the dumb human component of so much work is that work’s essential and enduring quality. For years, it has seemed obvious to me that corporate PowerPoint decks should be the first thing we automate, but there’s one major obstacle: The purpose of a PowerPoint deck is to prove that a human knew enough about a topic to make the deck.

#200: All Tomorrow's Parties

Kneeling Bus

Executives are rarely held accountable unless they expose themselves to accountability, and this is a valuable opportunity to hold yourself accountable to your team. As you hold yourself accountable, it’ll become increasingly easy to hold your team accountable as well.

Using Cultural Survey Data.

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Officials estimate between 5,000-10,000 people are dying per *day* . (At the U.S. peak, we lost [3,800](https://substack.com/redirect/f3575fc7-c7a1-478c-a2e7-fb9d6335ea0a?j=eyJ1IjoiMXlmdTFqIn0.qYv5NVQwodvs9yAW1b9IqXxz-UTiPAUp4JXaRMXUArU) people per day). Epidemiologists expect death toll to rise in China in the coming months leading to 0.5-1 million cumulative deaths. A humanitarian disaster.

COVID in China, the U.S., and Everything in-Between

Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist

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