For the past month, chaos and confusion have gripped Washington and the federal government. Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, have served as an iron fist of the Trump administration—ransacking government agencies, lighting fires in various departments, and generally firing as many people as they can get away with. Much of this w ... Show More
Feb 27
How Metrics Make Us Miserable
The modern world swims in numbers: work metrics, fitness metrics, health metrics, social media metrics. Sometimes the quantification of life can make things better. But very often, I think they force us to play the games we can measure rather than the games we value. The quantifi ... Show More
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Mar 2025
S2 Ep1005: Michael Lewis: Government Workers Aren't the Corrupt Ones
<div>Trump loves to complain about the deep state while Elon claims he's rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse with all his mass firings. But DOGE should be looking higher up the food chain to target the graft: for example, the South African immigrant whose car company would not ha ... Show More
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Aug 2022
CDC, IRS, FBI, Pentagon all destroying evidence. Why does the government believe it has to hide everything it does from us? Episode 271 - H
THE THESIS: The Party bosses are panicked. Everywhere we look, The Party is destroying evidence. The CDC is erasing the lies it told about the inections. The IRS deleted its recruiting ad for people who will shoot to kill. The FBI has used agents under criminal investigation by ... Show More
1h 2m