Pretty interesting. The more I read about success countries, I am getting the impression that more controlled efforts based on education and understanding are much more effective than carpet-bombing with draconian initiatives.
economist.com/asia/2020/12/1… 1. Unified population that trusts the authorities. Japan is problematically homogenous but it played in their favour in this case. Pakistan achieved the same thing by having a cricket champion as their leader (cricket is huge in Pakistan and everyone likes him a lot)

I heard this uncredited quote today:
"A person's worth is strongly correlated with the number of uncomfortable conversations they are willing to have" and this quote made me think about discomfort. 1/? One lesson that life (and my excellent therapist) is teaching me at the moment is to nudge my thinking of experiences as good and bad and instead think in terms of comfort and discomfort. The distinction is subtle but incredibly powerful. 2/?

Do you want your code reviewed by me and @silveira_bells on a live stream? On Monday 14:00 GMT (Twitch Event: twitch.tv/events/4n7KOY7…) me and Isa Silveira will be doing a live stream where we are going to talk about how to do code review, and we figure it would be so cool if the code we review came from you, the viewers.

If you are the kind of person willing to spend a year or two doing mind-numbingly boring work in order to become obscenely wealthy, I suggest dropping everything and focusing on being a GDPR expert consultant for the coming two years... ... in the coming months, businesses all over the world will become aware that this GDPR is a project they should have initiated two years ago that carries absolutely astronomical fines if not implemented, and for most systems its tens of thousands of consulting hours ...