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Some things I learned at Progress con: It can often seem like there is no progress in education at all - for hundreds of years, the expert has stood at the front of the room and the students sat at desks listening. But M…
Saloni Dattani: Last week I thought, “I’d love to read more about Australia’s clinical trial system and how it compares with the United States!”, since Australia is known for having a much faster process for starting ear…
I enjoyed reading Oliver Kim’s article on the two lives of Robert McNamara: one as US secretary of defense and chief escalator of the Vietnam War, the other as World Bank president and crusader against global poverty. He…
I just finished reading Charles Mann’s The Wizard and the Prophet , which has to be a top-ten abundance and growth book for its description of the Green Revolution’s effect on crop yields and recounting of the failed apo…
“You will be hard-pressed to find a true admirer of Excel,” writes David Oks (who I first noticed as one of the Gravel Teens and is now at a16z , truly an ideological evolution for our time). But Oks is, if not an admire…