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Anthony Stephen Fauci OMRI (/ˈfaʊtʃi/; born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist serving as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Chief Medical Advisor to the President. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci

Ben Hunt: The Ireland Event. For the past year, I’ve been consumed with how Covid-19 numbers are used/manipulated to create political narratives. Last week I became consumed by a new twist on all this – Covid numbers that were being largely ignored. Insane infection numbers coming out of UK and Ireland, apparently driven by a new virus strain (B117). (more)

an air-purifying respirator, in which respirable air is obtained by filtering a contaminated atmosphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respirator (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz Covid-19 12/30: Infinity War. *Executive Summary (more)

John Cutler: The Messifesto. One of the defining aspects of my 2021 was being exposed to hundreds of teams from around the world. It was fun, but also very challenging. While increasing my ability to pattern match and offer plausible recommendations, I also realized just how vast this space is, and how little I ultimately know. (more)

lead of Product Team, Two-Pizza Team. See Product Team Members Report To The Team Leader.

This will be the focal page for some linked excerpts of A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander. The scope ranges from room details to Society Design. You can free the full-text by buying the book or going to his site. (Some excerpts are re-worded a bit to directly use WikiNames instead of making those pattern names as redundant labels in the text. So the wording here may be a bit less elegant at times...) There's a strong SmallWorld flavor here. (more)

an Agile Software Development methodology (more)

Zeynep Tufekci: The C.D.C. Is Hoping You’ll Figure Covid-19 Out on Your Own. While Omicron’s mutations make it exceptionally good at causing breakthrough cases even in people who have been vaccinated or previously infected, they also render it less able to effectively infect the lower lungs... it’s just luck that this highly transmissible variant appears to be less dangerous than other variants to those with prior immunity. If it had been more deadly — as Delta has been — the U.S. government’s haphazard and disorganized response would have put the whole country much more at risk. (more)

The Biden Administration Rejected an October Proposal for “Free Rapid Tests for the Holidays”. On October 22, a group of COVID-19 testing experts joined a Zoom call with officials from the Biden administration and presented a strategy for overhauling America’s approach to testing. (more)

Anthony Fauci Explains Why Public Wasn't Told to Wear Masks When Pandemic Began. Back when the coronavirus pandemic cases started picking up in early Spring, many Americans and experts asked: Should we be wearing masks? (filter mask) (more)

Agile Software Development methodology for project of 21-40 people.

Zvi Mowshowitz Omicron variant Post #12. Schools, hospitals and all businesses face massive disruptions from people unable to work, even with the new CDC isolation guidelines. (more)

Email service/app/address from BaseCamp. https://www.hey.com (more)

Applied Divinity Studies: Make COVID Predictions, Take My Money: On Zvi, Bets and Taking Ideas Seriously. Zvi and Holden are betting on when Covid ends. I am taking Zvi’s side and offering the same bet, except 10x larger. (2021-12-23) Karnofsky Bet With Zvi About Omicron (more)

Mike Hadlow: Coconut Headphones: Why Agile Has Failed. (more)

John Sutherland: Node idea. I have seen the future of literary criticism - and, as John Reed said - 'it works'. Works better, in fact, than Reed's beloved Soviet Union ever worked. And it will work, I believe, for other humanities disciplines. Science I'm not so sure about. But perhaps there too (more)

Bret Victor: Ten Brighter Ideas? An Explorable Explanation. As with many areas of public interest, the common wisdom surrounding energy conservation consists of myths and legends, rules of thumb and superstitions. We're given guidelines as soundbites, catchy but insubstantial. We trust them blindly, not knowing whether our actions make any significant impact. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Omicron variant Post #11. South Africa, the UK and Denmark are no longer uniquely informative places, so I’m combining all the areas into one section now.... There are a few cities where we may have peaked, but otherwise outside of South Africa? Not so much. (more)