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Patrick Atwater

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“The feral middle children of history” 😂😂😂😂 👌
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""" “Every step of the way, to everyone around us, we should be asking the question, what are you building?” He writes. “What are you building directly, or helping other people to build, or teaching other people to build, or taking care of people who are building? If the work you’re doing isn’t either leading to something being built or taking care of people directly, we’ve failed you.” I don’t think that’ll be enough. So let me end with my answer to Andreessen’s question: What should we build? We should build institutions biased toward action and ambition, rather than inaction and incrementalism. """ https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21228469/marc-andreessen-build-government-coronavirus
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What are good tips for picking up gigs on Farcaster Asking for a fren
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Some aspire to wordl guess efficiency I aim for sui generis
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“Figure of the day: 90%, the proportion of American voters who live in counties where Donald Trump’s vote share in 2024 increased from 2020.” Whoa!
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"Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself." - G.K. Chesterton
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Any sublime users? What's the purpose of something like that rather than notion or something basic? https://sublime.app/
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What would be your IKEA protocol ized company name? Mine would be PALC
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The Colorado river aqueduct was a bet of approximately 20% the entire property value of the southern California region Talk about bold!
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"initially, the young Johnson was assigned to work in the tooling department. There, he received a kind of hands-on education that he felt most airplane designers couldn’t find anywhere in the post-war years. He took quite well to the hands-on nature of the work. He had, after all, spent much of his youth working in construction. In the tooling department, he worked with an old hand named Bill Mylan and learned the airplane production business from the workman’s end of things. While in the tooling department, Kelly learned to actually build planes, designed a furnace to heat-treat a metal that was new to Lockheed’s production, and made beginner’s mistakes passing design instructions to workmen. In no small part, Kelly credited these early experiences with helping him understand how to design airplanes that were buildable." https://www.freaktakes.com/p/managing-lockheeds-skunk-works
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“In fact, climate change is neither the end of the world nor an expensive hoax. It is a real and difficult problem, but one that can be curbed affordably. “ In fact = modal expectation within well modeled scenarios with fat statistical tails The energy transition will be much cheaper than you think https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2024/11/14/the-energy-transition-will-be-much-cheaper-than-you-think The Economist
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Embracing goblin mode as I navigate chaos with a new job starting daycare with a toddler and moving for a remodel Also got Wordle in three today
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I feel like there's a deep story here... wonder if there's a good Dictator's handbook style analysis of this coup. So many of the "little" forgotten eddies of a world war get forgotten due to statistical rounding error but are often quite eventful in and of themselves https://x.com/RealTimeWWII/status/1856648276361281824
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Is there a gov tech / urban tech / DOGE not the coin focused channel on the casterverse
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When does optimizing for safety lead to brittleness and fragility? When does prioritizing agility lead to chaos? 🧐
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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/from-elon-musk-to-tulsi-gabbard-one-fun-fact-about-each-member-of-team-trump-2024/articleshow/115307377.cms this really tickles me… nails the wwf dynamic
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I started a new role leading the innovation program at (by many metrics) the worlds largest water utility. Andor feels like a good lorecraft as any to lean into for this latest adventure into the vast frontier of more adaptive, digitally native government operations
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Muahahahahaha
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