The Best Words I Found Last Week
optimized for "novel and interesting"
Ratings reminder (points for novel and interesting):
1-3: filtered out, bottom 90%. 4 and above was worth saving
4: read if intriguing, but you’re not missing too much
5: skippable if busy, but missing out if this is your thing
6: uncommon quality, worth a read if at all interested
7: pretty much everyone should read this
Disclaimers reminder:
summaries are haphazard and ratings are intentionally subjective
not necessarily an endorsement, just made me think
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4/7 - China’s Libertarian Medical City — city where you can do medical treatments approved by any peer country, also speeds up approval times
5/7 - Recoding America — waterfall development, risk aversion, unnecessary policy complexity, and no product managers are the reason government services suck and are so expensive
5/7 - Civilizational Differences — very interesting comparisons and theories of civilizational cycles
Bonus throwbacks:
6/7 - Bad Definitions Of "Democracy" And "Accountability" Shade Into Totalitarianism — it’s really easy for something that sounds innocuous like “accountability”, to go too far
6/7 - A Golden Age of Building? Excerpts and lessons from Empire State, Pentagon, Skunk Works and SpaceX — inspiring, incredible how fast things can be when they go right
Ideas worth spreading?
(this post will be deleted next week — the full archive has all this and more)