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What went wrong with America’s $44 million vaccine data system? She was on the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention’s brand-new, $44 million website called VAMS—the Vaccine Administration Management System, built by the consulting firm Deloitte. (more)

Yascha Mounk: Why I'm Losing Trust in the Institutions. Who should be first in line to get the vaccine against Covid-19? (more)

Paul Krugman: Stagflation revisited. Nakamura, together with Jon Steinsson, has been at the cutting edge of empirical macroeconomics. For example, N/S made a big impact during the stimulus/austerity wars with a paper using the differential impact of military spending across states to estimate multipliers. The new paper uses a similar approach to estimate how much impact unemployment has on the inflation rate. (more)

Herman Martinus: My product is my garden. I’ve been part of the internet startup scene for a while. There are so many different camps: the bootstrappers, the VC-backed tech-bros, the crypto “investors”, the people marketing their courses on marketing courses, the newsletter gurus, the micro-saas homeboys. (more)

The Mutualist Economy: A New Deal for Ownership - Ideas - Berggruen Institute. Tracing how federal government policies have worked to support personal and public wealth building across three periods: the First Industrial Revolution of the mid-19th century, the Second Industrial Revolution of the early 20th century, and the Information and Communication Technology revolution of the late-20th century. (more)

The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election. There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Donald Trump’s assault on democracy. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 2/4: Safe and Effective Vaccines Aplenty. The vaccine data is in. It’s pretty great. We now have six known safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines. The problem is that due to our unwillingness to properly fund the process of scaling up, we are stalling out at about 1.3 million doses per day for a population of 330+ million people each of whom needs two doses. (more)

The United States Chamber of Commerce (USCC) is a business-oriented American lobbying group. Politically, the Chamber usually supports Republican political candidates, though it has occasionally supported conservative Democrats.[2][3] The Chamber is the largest lobbying group in the U.S., spending more money than any other lobbying organization on a yearly basis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Chamber_of_Commerce (more)

Urban Design Framing: hoping to combine the best aspects of city and village (more)

The rise of the ambient video game (more)

(from 2003) Given that there are a limited number of musical tones, it seems to me there's a limited number of songs that could be written. Could you auto-generate songs and then demand licenses for every new ditty that came out? How about if you simpify the idea to reduce the number of combinations? Just go for a accomplishing a "similar sounding hook", which might be enough to cause trouble. (more)

Family Farm operator - beyond Grass-Fed (more)

Venkatesh Rao: Weirding Diary: 11. We’re barely seven weeks into 2020, and it’s already the weirdest year in my living memory. (more)

there are [n] kinds of people... (more)

Diagram of a customer persona's trip through a product/services experience lifecycle

pseudo-PublicSpace of the Suburb (more)

belief in the existence of One True God (more)

Julian Shapiro: What you should be working on. I spent an hour listing out everything I cared about — from human connection, to self-education, to wealth. In the process, I surprised myself: There is a better way to achieve these goals than pursuing a startup. (more)

Marc Andreessen's "Top 10 sci-fi novelists of the '00s -- so far": Charlie Stross, Richard Morgan, Alastair Reynolds, Ken MacLeod, Peter Hamilton, John Scalzi, Neal Asher, Chris Moriarty, Peter Watts, David Marusek, with bonus Vernor Vinge.