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Covid Proved the C.D.C. Is Broken. Can It Be Fixed?

Default Headline Can the C.D.C. Be Fixed? Covid-19 has shown the glaring weaknesses of the world’s premier public health agency — and just how much work it…

Why American Women Everywhere Are Delaying Motherhood

How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?—Stephen Wolfram Writings

Stephen Wolfram considers if numbers are actually required, the use of symbolics and the potential for the growing role of computational irreducibility.

Jeff Bezos Will Fly Aboard Blue Origin’s First Human Trip to Space - The New York Times

Mr. Bezos and his brother, Mark, will be on board when his rocket company launches its first human spaceflight next month, shortly after he steps down as chief executive of Amazon.

Review: Malcolm Gladwell’s New Book Is a Fantasy of War From the Air | The New Republic

“The Bomber Mafia” enthuses about precision tactics said to spare civilian lives. Except they didn’t.

Testing Effectively With Legacy Code

A few thoughts on depression

A repost from the archives of my old blog

An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding

For varying levels of seniority, from senior, to staff, and beyond.

How an American Family Raised on GE Wages Copes With Income Inequality

‘Why would I put my kids in a place where there is no future?’

Javascript and the next decade of data programming

I’ve recently been getting pretty far into the weeds about what the future of data programming is going to look like. I use pandas and dplyr in python and R respectively. But I’m starting to see the shape of something that’s interesting coming down the pike. I’ve been working on a project that involves scatterplot visualizations at a massive scale–up to 1 billion points sent to the browser. In doing this, two things have become clear:

The Rise of Remote Work May Reshape College Towns. Here’s How These Campuses Are Wooing Transplants.

Some universities are making a play for other companies’ employees, hoping to lure them to move to college towns and work remotely.

The Endless Work of Trying to Win Yourself a New Life

Inside the world of sweepers—committed competitors trying to game the system or maybe just win a lifetime supply of Gatorade.

Benevolence

Also, bookplates!

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Medicine must address vaccine holdouts among us. Here's how.

[Letter from Los Angeles] The Anxiety of Influencers, By Barrett Swanson | Harper's Magazine

Educating the TikTok generation

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(The author is taking their monthly break! The Wandering Inn will be back on the 29th! The 1st of June for Public readers!)   Ever since Erin had died, every day was like the last. Not the ‘la…

Mocking is a Code Smell

Note: This is part of the “Composing Software” series (now a book!) on learning functional programming and compositional software…

'FIND THIS FUCK:' Inside Citizen’s Dangerous Effort to Cash In On Vigilantism

Internal documents, messages, and roadmaps show how crime app Citizen is pushing the boundary of what a private, app-enabled vigilante force may be capable of.

Second-guessing the modern web

What if everyone's wrong?

Worker Threads

Worker threads

This Was Steve Jobs' Most Important Observation When He Returned to Apple. It Changed Everything

It had nothing to do with the products.