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Patrick McKenzie @patio11
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It's a tiny little thing but I love it:

There are some sales reps who, when you say "I am too busy to even think about this right now; can you ping me in 3 months" will actually write you in three months. Every time it happens I want to give them a call on general principles.
"But why wouldn't you just tell them 'No.'"

Because I didn't want to say "No" I wanted to say "This seems in the zone where it's not clearly yes, not clearly no, and not so clearly worth exploring that I'm tying a string around my finger to remember it, but if you want to, sure"
Best variant ever.

"Got it; #{Date.today + 3.months}. What should I get ready for the call?" and by God Internets he had it ready.
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I’m often surprised when reading about startups that critics move to envisioning a world where the startup has won so totally that there is no alternative to their model, which is not what the victory case looks like.
Thought prompted by (paraphrase) “Who will cross-subsidize the education of non-renumerative-occupation-of-interest after Lambda School is educating every professional in capitalism?”
And as much as I share enthusiasm for living in that hypothetical universe good golly there is a heck of a lot of work between the status quo and the first 1% of that outcome.
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Using a Chromebook for the first time and reflecting that given how much of my workday is in Google applications and other generic web apps this might be a perfectly adequate main computer if one isn’t doing development (on which I have no read on it).
I always thought “You’ll pry MS Office from my cold dead hands” but these days 98% of what I use it for is handled by Google Docs. (It helps that almost all docs I care about are internal and began life in Google Docs.)
Also Google seems to have discovered a revolutionary technology called a “keyboard” where you mechanically actuate a switch and it results in a character of input to your machine.

Apple should steal that.
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One of the least heralded and most important technological advances of the last 20 years is a battle getting fought one piece of paper at a time to replace workflows with web applications. It’s slow, boring, and enormously impactful.
It’s surprising how much you can get done these days *without* needing to call anyone, line up, or make a visit to an office to figure out the correct form to file something.
Random example for you: the IRS hires 10k people every year to type numbers from returns into the computer. This is a decrease from earlier, since e-filed returns don’t need to be redundantly retyped.
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Three whole retweets. It won't get many more. I've learned that most people on Twitter simply don't have the courage to actually want to promote prospective solutions. Hand-wringing is less risky. Maybe it just feels too dangerous. Would you rather have a civil war?
.@goangelo If even a handful of big-brand celebrities actually called for #ReformingFoxNews, advertisers would crap their pants within an hour and @FoxNews will stop their daily lying and misinfo within DAYS.

We need a simple project statement they can embrace & RT. A lot.
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Out today! My new, chart-rich paper on trade, globalization & US public opinion:
cato.org/publications/f…
So now a thread on why I wrote this paper - the data for which were surprisingly difficult to gather (thanks, @pewresearch, @Gallup, @ChicagoCouncil, etc for the help!) - and what it reveals /2
The malleability of US public opinion on trade is something I first noticed years ago (and briefly discussed in this paper from 2011: cato.org/publications/f…). Trade polls have long fluctuated depending on politics, rhetoric & the economy. /3
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(1) My Top Ten Aretha Franklin hits.

No politics tonight. Only soul.🕶️🌟

(2) At the age of 10 I was introduced to the Queen of Soul through this scene in the classic 1980 movie The Blues Brothers.

If for some reason you haven't seen this movie, you know what to do.

#Think

(3) Then I found out Aretha Franklin sang R.E.S.P.E.C.T. in 1967. One of her biggest hits.

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There are a lot of prominent people, who claim to be principled anti-war activists, who led us to believe that Hillary was the *real* threat, that should be absolutely ashamed to show their faces right now. Yet they're all pretending like it never happened.
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For some reason this has gotten under my skin today. There is a private club in America that only the rich can join where as a member you are given special access to the president, pictures with the president, the president takes your advice & counsel & HE GETS PAID FOR IT.
Call me old school, but this seems to me so outrageously wrong that I can't even think about Russia right now. And there's a hotel in DC like that. And there are properties worldwide where you can pay to have access to the president's closest advisors (family)...
...and on top of that, the countries that have those properties in them and their leaders tend to get treated much better by the current administration than other countries even though they are often rule by autocrats and others with interests antithetical to the U.S.
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If you think you can be picky for the next few election cycles, you’re not paying attention. For nearly 40 years, the GOP has been in charge and tearing this country apart. There is no choice but to get rid of them going forward.
This does not mean I am in favor of a one-party system. it means that we already have a one-party system because the GOP is completely dysfunctional. And the only way to make them functional again is to make sure they lose everything for a while.
Those who think you can pick and choose which Democrats to support are delusional. And if you are already pushing Bernie or Biden for 2020, you are not astute, politically. We can’t even think about 2020 right now; we have to blunt the power of the GOP THIS YEAR.
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