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August 3rd US COVID-19 Update

1) Lowest # of daily Infections in about a month
2) Dropping # of those in Serious/Critical condition, -500 in past 10 days
3) August so far; 165K Infections & 2,600 Deaths

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Aug 31 - 6.5M Infections & 172K Deaths

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Daily Stoic @dailystoic·

Things to remind yourself of according to Seneca
...that unexpected blows land heaviest
...that every person is an opportunity for kindness
...that wisdom can be found anywhere
...that fortune is fickle
...that ruling over yourself is the greatest empire

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Venkatesh Rao @vgr·

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In Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age, one of the near-future cultures is Neo-Victorian, and it is rooted in a mix of ironic-but-not-really theater and a self-aware embrace of hypocrisy as a civilizational virtue. I’ve been thinking about whether that future is reasonable post-Covid.

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What would you ask a famous economist?

Published July 24, 2007 by Nicholas Sarwark

Tyler Cowen, economist, cultural omnivore, and proprietor of Marginal Revolution, has written a new book called “Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in…

Podcasts of Note: AudioStoa and Marketplace Takeout

Published December 14, 2005 by Nicholas Sarwark

WAMU moved the Marketplace Morning report from 8:50 am to 7:50 am, so I’ve been missing it for about a week (I’m not in the…