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John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

Futarchy’s fundamental flaw — the market — the blog post

Early takes from Upfront: - Mass extinction of emerging managers is coming (LPs underwriting survivability) - Many perceived to be great firms are not so quietly being recognized as on the decline - Folks are tired of being “soft” and want to focus on performance>politeness

Rick Zullo x.com

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taylorpearson.me • The Illegible Margin: Profiting From the Gap Between the Map and the Territory

I think the next element of it was this faith in Yale and Harvard — right? The best institutions, “the smartest people in the room.” This is what they're doing — right? “Let’s copy this. Copy the experts.” The sort of Obama-era faith in technocracy. These forces all picked up and, I think, gave rise to this private asset bubble.

Carson J Becker • Interview: Dan Rasmussen

A: Let’s talk about delay, then. How do you think we can delay scientists from discovering these pandemic-capable agents? K: There are two ways that are the most promising. Number one: we can find a way to make people liable for causing catastrophe. We can set the bar very high, say, something like 10 million deaths worldwide — direct or indirect —... See more

Asterisk Magazine Issue 01 Inaugural Issue

In this book, I’ll discuss the danger of “unknown unknowns”—the risks that we are not even aware of. Perhaps the only greater threat is the risks we think we have a handle on, but don’t.* In these cases we not only fool ourselves, but our false confidence may be contagious.

Nate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

Thoughts from a private citizen on the Madison Academy Community Center proposal

Preston Byrne prestonbyrne.com

Liberals suffer incurably from naïveté, the stupidity of the good heart.