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The BLS recently reported that at its peak, only 7% of Americans were working from home, so this demographic is probably too small to have much large scale impact on the productivity numbers. If there is stagnation in the productivity numbe
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I've read that doctors now spend as much as 50% of their time documenting their work. Companies such as Epic, which provide the software that hospitals use to build databases of patient data, have been big winners in the new world of h
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Jack Welch was one of many voices in the 1980s and 1990s that oversaw the deindustrialization of the USA. The USA lost almost 2 million manufacturing jobs in the 1980s. We shouldn't blame Jack Welch for much of that deindustrialization
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You should post this comment on the article itself, on Substack.
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Either you're simply trolling to get attention or you are advocating to take away other people's basic human rights, and either way, your behavior is immoral and therefore deserves to be downvoted.
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If an Election Matters Too Much, Then the Constitutional Order Has Failed(demodexio.substack.com)
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How in the world is this possible: "In a testament to just how incredibly tough these aircraft really are, the damaged F-15 was transported to a maintenance facility in Tel Nof, where it was given a new wing and returned to service.&qu
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Imagine a country that has no international trade of any kind. If this country has inflation, the inflation has to be because of an excess of dollars over what can, in the short term, be supplied. (Over the long-term the stimulus of spendin
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This article is missing a lot. For instance, it misses the international element completely. It does not mention one of the most important monetary facts of the 20th Century: that the USA dollar was allowed to float 1971. This was the end o
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The big inflation spikes are always extremely multi-variate and difficult to turn into simple stories. Whereas ordinary inflation tends to be a somewhat simple story of demand running excess of supply, both of the big inflation spikes had l
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Oxygen is much thinner at 33,000 feet. You can still breath at 15,000 feet, most of us have hiked up a mountain almost that tall. In the USA, if you live out West and do a lot of hiking, you've probably gone up at least 12,000 and mayb
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This doesn't seem like a big deal, since it is only 15,000 feet and he had the help of an unopened parachute, which certainly slowed his descent, even though it didn't slow his descent enough. By contrast, Vesna Vulovic fell 33,00
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"Streamlining the actual process of the legislature so that more can get done" "For the important stuff, insist on two votes, but for everything else, make it easy to get stuff done fast" https://demodexio.sub
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In the other comment seneca points out that you're ignoring history with your comment. You might want to consider a system that goes in the other direction, and adds more layers of representation: https://demodexio.substack.
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The emphasis on parties might be the most accurate part. This is a possible reason for the so-called "Panama Exception" -- a nation the should be a dictatorship and yet has been a thriving democracy: https://demodexio.s
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Assuming we need some kind of government, then does "against all" actually offer an improvement over the current system? The economist Kenneth Arrow suggested something in the opposite direction, approval voting, where the voters
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Christopher H. Achen & Larry M. Bartels wrote a whole book showing that voters do not keep track of what elected officials do, and so politicians are not punished for bad behavior, see excerpt here: https://demodexio.substack
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For anyone interested, I did write a small book on the theme of personal connections and face-to-face communication, being more important than processes or tools: https://www.amazon.com/meetings-underrated-Group-waste-time-.
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Yes, to be sure, I need to be more careful how I phrase this. I recently consulted with a VP of engineering who liked to bring 9 engineers together to review a database schema. I suggested more one-on-one meetings. He said, "Yes, I kno
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I strongly agree: "The mantra of sharing your work and involving everyone in decisions naturally leads to inviting and copying people into things that add no value to them, or you." Fred Brooks, in his book The Design Of Design, i
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I think most people assume Putin blew up the pipeline to limit the possibility of his would-be successors being able to sell gas/oil to the West. And Putin has probably rigged the other pipelines with explosives. Otherwise the incentiv
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This is another example of "Navernoye, seno vkusno pakhlo" -- a flippant remark about danger, the final sentence of the autobiography/memoir that Putin published in 2000, to introduce himself to Russia, and the world. He was
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Yes, that's what I meant. The committees would have oversight of the permanent civil service, and could, in a sense, be considered part of that service.
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It might be possible to engineer a type of democracy that solves this problem, partly by combining two seemingly opposite ideas. For instance, imagine a society that has frequent elections, but for long terms. An example would be a society
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Except by 2000 there were hundreds of Web companies that had become real companies. It was obvious that Google, eBay, Yahoo and Amazon would survive the downturn of 2000-2001. While there were many bad ideas, there were obviously many good
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Several trillion dollars were handed by the Trump administration, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The uptick in spending is hardly unique to the Biden administration.
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There is a power in honest story telling, which is missed in academic work, or work that is purely theoretical. One of my goals is to tell true short stories about life at startups, to teach lessons about management or leadership. While the
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"Russo argues that scientific progress largely came to an end by 150 BCE, and the Roman period saw an actual decline in scientific understanding." Off topic, but apparently something similar happened in China, at roughly the same
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Your dates are off by 100 million years. You're confusing the late Paleozoic for the late Mesozoic. Trees came first, the explosion of land-based bio-diversity happened more than 100 million years later.
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Just to be clear, we need to measure inflation, and therefore, by accident, we end up measuring productivity. Here is a simplified example: The nominal money GDP increases by 6% Population increases by 1.5% That leaves 4.5% that is either i

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