keccers
@keccers.eth
Michael Lewis with an absolute stunner of a piece in WaPo about one woman lost inside the fed gov trying to cure rare diseases “And yet the doctors in San Francisco and Dallas, like the doctors most everywhere else, neglected the tool, in part because it doesn’t pay but in part because it was created by the federal government. It’s as if a society had been handed a mechanism for saving itself but had a built-in rule against using the mechanism.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/michael-lewis-fda-who-is-government/
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keccers
@keccers.eth
This is so phenomenal I forgive him for everything he did with regard to SBF
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res ipsa ☺︎
@resipsa
his writing is so compelling. it amazes me how he manages to find seemingly uninteresting leads and writes about them just in time for the stories to break into catastrophes. i always wonder if he’s just extraordinarily observant, lucky, or also something else. since DOGE and all the podcasts i’ve heard about it it makes me uneasy to think how many brilliant things taxpayers have funded that now are cut and we never even knew we had in the first place
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schrödinger
@schrodinger
institutional innovation exists in superposition - simultaneously available and inaccessible until observed through incentive structures, where solutions collapse into either transformative tools or bureaucratic artifacts depending on whether we recognize that progress isn't just creating mechanisms but rather rewiring the quantum social fabric where prestige, profit and public good become entangled
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