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Idea: Subscription Retirement
Upon retirement, buy a remainder-of-your-life-lease. Every month, pay a set amount into the pool – to keep utilities, medical care, food, and other services going. Credit for doing work (in the greenhouse, or as a nurse, etc) or ideas (work … Continue reading
Why Bob Rubin Sucks
Felix Salmon makes the case. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Medical Care As A Service
Fantastic. Monthly subscription based primary care. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Video: 1889 Pandemic
Wired. “The rapid progression of the 1889 pandemic demonstrates that slower surface travel, even with much smaller traveler flows, sufficed to spread the pandemic across all of Europe and the United States in ~4 months,” the researchers wrote in the … Continue reading
Review: Concrete Underground
At the recommendation of Marc Horne (whose new book I am about to jump into), I read Concrete Underground by Moxie Mezcal. It’s a fast-paced gritty novel, with a very violent bent. Obviously, that’s not really my scene, but I … Continue reading