Matt Taibbi: We Know How Donald Trump’s War Game Ends. What’s the War on Terror death count by now, a half-million? How much have we spent, $5 trillion? Five-and-a-half? For that cost, we’ve destabilized the region to the point of abject chaos, inspired millions of Muslims to hate us, and torn up the Geneva Convention and half the Constitution in pursuit of policies like torture, kidnapping, assassination-by-robot and warrantless detention. (more)

A variety of accounts of the summer's Millenium Challenge WarGames, centered around General Paul Van Riper. (more)

Fred Kaplan points out that the War On Iraq challenges were those played out during the last Millenium Challenge - 2002-09-12-b.

a phrase from a response United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave to a question at a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) news briefing on February 12, 2002, about the lack of evidence linking the government of Iraq with the supply of weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups.[1] Rumsfeld stated: "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns

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Steven Johnson: Seven Types of Serendipity. “One thing a person cannot do, no matter how rigorous his analysis or heroic his imagination,” the Nobel laureate Thomas Schelling once observed, “is to draw up a list of things that would never occur to him.” (Unknown-Unknown) Schelling’s original point was part of a larger argument defending the intellectual exercise of wargaming. (wargame) (more)

Scott Alexander: Movie Review: Don't Look Up. Don’t Look Up is primarily a movie about existential risk, and many great people have already reviewed it as such. I’m going to be less virtuous and use it as a springboard to talk about politics. (more)

Migrating away from hey.com. My new email configuration (which is mimicking Hey.com to a certain extent).... (more)

When a customer is able to achieve the Job to be Done by your product/offering. See Hero's Journey.

Nudger/jiggler of organizational change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_development#Change_agent (more)

Michael Strong-co-founded school (more)

author, school-creator: Academy Of Thought And Industry, Expat International School (more)

Electronic mail, the king of the killer net apps. (more)

Nathan Baschez: Will HEY.com work? Will it work? Almost certainly. (more)

WikiWeb focused on students (esp College Education). (more)

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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)