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This is where I will be posting public content from my professional life as well as aspects of my personal life and hobbies. After 30 years of developing products and software systems for the Internet, I am finally starting to put a bit more public information on the Internet. As with nearly everything else on the Internet, this is very much a work in progress.
tl;dr: Absolutely everyone who lived though the COVID pandemic needs to read this book...
This is, quite simply, the best book I’ve read so far about what we, collectively in the United States, got wrong during the COVID-19 pandemic. The shocker is who wrote it: two self-proclaimed members of the educated liberal elite, the same class of people who dominate our academic and educational institutions, the mainstream media, our public health institutions, our government bureaucracies, and non-government organizations. Authors Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee aren’t afraid to criticize their comrades: “We believe that our own tribe needs to introspect, admit its biases and shortcomings, and strive to do better.” “Elite groups have tendencies towards groupthink and mutual reinforcements of biases, fed by a self-righteous sense of moral and intellectual superiority.” Punches landed, but look who is throwing them...
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