19 OCT
Onlyness – gathering and incorporating ideas / information
Blueprint – Unity of effort [Team of Teams]
31 AUG
As FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver wrote, “There is a lot of ‘the pendulum is swinging away from Biden’ speculation based on rather little actual evidence.”
The pioneering psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman came up with an idea decades ago that explains the rush to declare a Trump surge: availability.
The idea of availability is that people assess the likelihood of an event occurring based on how easy it is to imagine. And that often leads to errors.
Since Trump won a comeback victory in the most recent presidential election, it’s very easy to imagine him doing so again. The possibility is highly availableto our brains.
- Large-scale protests against President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus, the country’s longtime authoritarian leader, entered their fourth week. “People have gotten tired of everything and stopped being afraid,” one demonstrator said.
- The U.S. has passed six million confirmed coronavirus cases. (Here’s a map with the latest figures nationwide.)
- In New York, the absence of widely available rapid virus tests has led affluent New Yorkers to turn to services that can yield results in as little as 24 hours. Free standard tests can take days to return results.
- The Times’s Rukmini Callimachi has reported the largely untold story of what happened the night police killed Breonna Taylor in a botched drug raid.
- In his latest media column, The Times’s Ben Smith examines the long shadow of a 1996 magazine story on race by the prominent journalist Andrew Sullivan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/30/its-time-challenge-cockeyed-reaction-violence/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-coronavirus-scott-atlas-herd-immunity/2020/08/30/925e68fe-e93b-11ea-970a-64c73a1c2392_story.html
Atlas, who does not have a background in infectious diseases or epidemiology, has expanded his influence inside the White House by advocating policies that appeal to Trump’s desire to move past the pandemic and get the economy going, distressing health officials on the White House coronavirus task force and throughout the administration who worry that their advice is being followed less and less.
Atlas has fashioned himself as the “anti-Dr. Fauci,” one senior administration official said
Medium – Google’s Genius $49/mo Course Is About to Replace College Degrees “In our own hiring, we will now treat these new career certificates as the equivalent of a four-year degree for related roles.”
https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/googles-genius-49-mo-course-is-about-to-replace-college-degrees-340f459aaa9b
WSJ – 31 AUG – Silicon Valley start-up. Amazon for farmers. Taking on big agriculture.
WSJ – 28 AUG – IRS – Payroll tax deferment guidance to employers. [what happens to the social security trust?]
WSJ – 28 AUG – Pentagon is pulling out 1/3 of remaining troops in Iraq. Leaving 3,500.
WSJ – 28 AUG – Chinese drug maker in talks with countries for emergency vaccine approval before completion of clinical trials.
WSJ – 28 AUG – RNC Convention wrap-up
NYT – 28 Aug ? – Two P.R. Experts at the FDA have been removed after the fiasco over convalescent plasma.
WSJ – 27 AUG – NBA – playoffs – voting centers
WSJ – 27 AUG – WH – $750B deal with Abbott on testing [impact to the testing ecosystem + limited ability of others to get non-WH directed supplies – central control of resources w/o coordinated plan.
Kenosha WI
