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Dear Class of 2018: Congratulations! To prepare you for the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead, I have a gift for you (and yes, it’s a book): b-gat.es/2kOx2nC
I hope you enjoy “Factfulness” as much as I did. And I hope you take Hans’s advice to heart.
“When we have a fact-based worldview,” he writes, “we can see that the world is not as bad as it seems—and we can see what we have to do to keep making it better.”
My wish for you at this special time is to learn to think, and act, factfully. Congratulations, and good luck!
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1/ What a year. If you’re anything like me, you’re taking stock of your work and your life, and wondering where all the time went. Here are a few of my thoughts as 2018 wraps up. b-gat.es/2BSfgYC
Just over a year ago, I made my first investment in Alzheimer’s research. I’m hopeful that we can make a lot of progress in the coming years.
Almost a decade ago, I predicted that the world would soon be polio free. But we had more polio cases in 2018 than in 2017. Even so, I remain optimistic that we could eradicate polio soon.
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At the time I was in college, this was basically how the global economy worked...
This chart assumes that the total cost of production increases as supply increases. When a car company makes a new vehicle, the 10th car costs the same to manufacture as the 1000th.
But software doesn’t work like this. Microsoft might spend a lot of money to develop the first unit of a new program, but every unit after that is virtually free to produce.
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.@MaxCRoser is one of my favorite data nerds —and his website Our World in Data is a gold mine for impatient optimists like me. b-gat.es/2KcxhYQ
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As the holiday season approaches and 2018 ends, I take this opportunity to thank you for the support and on-going partnerships with the Uganda Communications Commission @UCC_Official towards the institutional goals and objectives.
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#TuesdayThoughts: I wasn't able to be as productive as I wanted to be this year given an (often-ass-kicking) autoimmune disorder, but here's a thread of a few highlights.

As always, I remain so grateful to you all for your continued support.❤️
First, I am very proud of co-editing, with @m_hild, Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power. We had perceptive, brilliant scholars contributing essays on a wide variety of topics. Look for the paperback release in 2019!

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Space Force!

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greatest military in the history of the world: Thank you for all you do every day for the American people. (Applause.)
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Now you invite the #GovernmentOfPutin (@GOP) into your midst.

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Do not further that which divides us!

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💪A thread on amazing Twitter threads 😍👇
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