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People in tech need to become radically more skilled at interfacing with government. To the extent that we have some manifest competency issues in government right now, we can't simply sit out here and gripe about this on podcasts, etc. We've got to go out and do something about it.
I think it's been reported that there was a meeting among tech leaders early in the vaccination effort where a bunch of people got in a room and were like, "this is going terribly. I hope someone fixes it." "I hope someone fixes it" is no longer a realistic alternative. We have to be part of the solution.
Patrick McKenzie - How a Discord Server Saved Thousands of Lives
Dwarkesh Patel
As is so often SOP with the truth, there’s a cruel paradox involved. It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able truly to see, articulate, and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it—and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence.
String Theory
David Foster Wallace
A three second warning can’t compete against 45 minutes of seeing charismatic and funny guys do reckless things.
Be Wary of Imitating High-Status People Who Can Afford to Countersignal
Rob Henderson
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