Doctors and the #WHO don't understand multiplication. They understand medicine (& addition), not multiplication. When we posted this on Jan 26, there were ~1,000 casualties. Today ~79,000. Unless we overreact, at that rate, in 1 month , can reach yuuuge numbers Yaneer Bar-Yam

People think of government as an abstract theological entity, not as a collection of individuals without skin in the game Nassim Nicholas Taleb at #RWRI

Are there more silent #COVIDー19 spreaders than we thought? Iceland, which is able to test its entire population, found half of those who tested positive had no #coronavirus symptoms. More Bloomberg: trib.al/U5KMqpk

Most insightful thing I wasn't self-aware of:

Michael Put another way, socialism for the rich.

Poor countries have common sense, and the East Asians have effective government, but the West is stuck with incompetent bureaucrats who can neither lead nor get out of the way.

You can rescue a business and its employees without rescuing the gamblers who own it.

COVID19 is not the flu. reddit.com/r/dataisbeauti…

I’m moving $1B of my Square equity (~28% of my wealth) to #startsmall LLC to fund global COVID-19 relief. After we disarm this pandemic, the focus will shift to girl’s health and education, and UBI. It will operate transparently, all flows tracked here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

News is the most socially acceptable entertainment industry.

Sweden has long had a can and bottle deposit system that gives people money back when they recycle – since1984 for aluminium cans, and since 1994 for plastic bottles. Each year Swedes recycle 1.8 billion bottles using the so-called pant system buff.ly/31oDdp6.

I don't care much for golf, but this was a great write up. Money Ball comes to mind.

Peak centralization.

Q: People are very interested how you work. It's monday morning, you wakeup. What ais a typical work day. Elon Musk I wakeup and see if there's any emergencies. Often there are. A ton of what I deal with is not fun or interesting. It's chores.

Once you discover how incompetently and misleadingly the media writes about a topic you are familiar with, you cannot help suspecting they write about all topics in this way.

Have we talked about the advantages of extremism lately? What did I miss?

The Art of the Deal.

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