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Patrick McKenzie

A month ago, the pseudonymous Working Group did an independent research project on the coronavirus outbreak in Japan. Our result was novel and concerning. We quietly circulated it to accelerate

If you have heard the words "75 years" and "Post Office" recently you may enjoy a brief digression about how to account for pension liabilities: Defined benefits pensions are an

Interesting author centric view of publishing value chain and economics, and a fun example of how software-adjacent companies are helping authors capture more of the margin for controlling distribution (in

Businesses renegotiate contracts all the time, for many reasons, and the attempt to renegotiate a contract is both a) not a refusal to honor the original contract and b) not

I saw a freelancer post that a client sent them a "We're not paying invoices due to [the economic environment]" notice. I won't link to it due to my no

Among the best best engineering documents I’ve read, written in a tone of gibbering madness, was a Google one about how Calendar handled time zones.It has since been taken down

Coronavirus increasingly appears likely to be the worst natural disaster in decades.I don't think it is yet appreciated how much it directly and indirectly attacks infrastructure, distinct from most disasters.

This is true of the iPhone and a number of other technical artifacts, and it is underremarked upon.https://twitter.com/johnloeber/status/1197359578716884992 On the consumer Internet side of things: everyone uses the same Google,

Some people really benefit from hearing advice that everyone knows, for the same reason we keep schools open despite every subject in them having been taught before.In that spirit, here's

In addition to assisting remote workers, a commitment to a written culture helps quickly moving organizations by making sure that people execute on decisions made even if they were not