Link. Oversimplified for the sake of emotional impact, but gets the big picture right.
Daily Archives: January 1, 2022
Aerial Tram car rescue.
Link. High risk rescue. Kudos for success
“The central government has delineated around a hundred million people to each of these megaregions and charged them to drive future growth.”
Link. Must read. “it has been a tragedy for the US that so many physics PhDs have gone to work in hedge funds and Silicon Valley”
“Oslo, a city of 480,000, maintains nearly 2,600 kilometers of groomed cross-country ski trails, all ten minutes by tram from the center of town.”
Link. On my list.
Japan struggles to raise lower income wages.
Link. Both highly automated and very inefficient.
Misogyny in South Korea: “More women attend college than men”
Link. Heritage of *intense* patriarchy meets “winner takes all” meets failed males meets social media meets reality that women are better at modern work.
The Emergent story: why US government emergency vaccine strategy failed.
Link. Huge NYT effort but narrative conventions limit impact. Failed for same reason government IT projects fail. Law and regulations guarantee failure.
Antarctic COVID – a containment failure.
Link. Would love more detail. False negative PCR with Omicron? Surface contamination? Hope they publish.