Links from Last Week

Best things I read ranked

1. Fun little post on the world of competitive speed running in video games. Definitely a documentary waiting to happen.

2. Beautiful personal essay on upward mobility.

3. FDA continued blundering.

4. Unintended Consequences 101 (policy outcomes don’t care about your intentions).

5. Good podcast on everything ailing the media.

6. Why are the government responses to COVID so different? aka why does my triple vaxxed masked neighbor cross the street to avoid my triple vaxxed self?

7. Noah Smith thinks we’re normalizing. However, one side’s political party remains in a cult like enthrall, while the other side’s media is either completely mis-focused, or engaged in massive mis-information. That being said everyday life remains very normal and wholly pleasant (famous last words, I hope not).