“That’s not what we do here. But we are doctors Lieutenant. We won’t turn you away.” That’s what the British research physician told me when I wandered into her malaria clinic in East Africa […]
Cruel Summer
Unmasked
Last week a friend told me he had to leave his men’s Bible study group. He could stomach it when they were a “just the flu” crowd. But now they’ve graduated into […]
New Expertise Required
Rob Wiblin’s 80,000 Hours team has a goal of identifying the skill bottlenecks keeping us from solving the world’s most pressing problems. Yesterday he sent out an important question to the universe via Twitter. […]
COVID-19 and The Case for State Capacity
As the emails go out from the school district where I live that schools are closing, I can’t help but wonder if there is, or ever will be, a stronger case for […]
Thoughts on COVID-19
I’ve been a part of enough things in my life that eventually became news stories to see a pattern. Whatever is reported is either an exaggeration, a partial truth or an outright […]