Dominic Cummings

practice thinking like superforecaster @MWStory instead of our idiocracy: read this *& take it seriously*, an explanation of Putin from an intelligent russian nationalist, esp WMD reference

great paul graham essay on cities

highly recommend, if only sw1 wd pay 1% as much attention to productivity/VC/science research/security/universities/incentives across all this as they do to dodgy polls - we'd be so much richer & safer - i can *~never* persuade MPs to think about this

Very highly recommend essay by @VitalikButerin 'The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy', highly relevant to what comes after the rotten political parties too https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/03/23/legitimacy.html

Good interview with @pmarca. In science/tech people do startups to escape the horror of awful institutions... Politics much harder... https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/flying-x-wings-into-the-death-star https://t.co/E0obRFmuPX