Topic
coronavirus
- Figma and Remote Work
A thoughtful and transparent post from Figma founder Dylan Field on their plans for re-establishing a hybrid / hub / remote model for the future of their teams. In many ways, we followed our normal design process in rā¦
- Will COVID Kill the Office?
Rory Sutherland's latest column for The Spectator: Covid-19 will change how humanity works. Lockdown has revealed that a large part of the busyness of business is driven by the need to signal commitment (presenteeism)ā¦
- Tour de France to be Raced on Zwift in July
This year's UCI season was demolished due to COVID-19 like most other sports. All of the big monuments, classics, and at least 1 Grand Tour (Giro) were postponed. MilanāSan Remo, DauphinĆ©, ParisāRoubaix, and a bunch oā¦
- Florida Beaches, 3 Months Post Lockdown
We're almost to the three-month mark since the lockdown started here in Pinellas. Pretty quickly all of the public beaches were closed, right in the midst of Spring Break season. For a county with so many of its econoā¦
- SSC Coronavirus Update
A great post on various things coronavirus from Scott Alexander. The utility and tradeoffs of lockdowns, virus transmission, country by country differences, and more.
- Did We Lock Down Some Places Too Early?
As the country is becoming more and more anxious about ending COVID lockdowns (with some states opening while others rein further in), Tyler Cowen had an interesting post about the timing of lockdowns: Letās say you hā¦
- Widespread Looting
Arnold Kling has been a great follow lately. On the Fed's stimulus plan for COVID economic shutdown: I have said all along that the checks being written to households and small businesses were just a fig leaf to coverā¦
- Weekend Reading: COVID Edition
āļø COVID and Forced Experiments Benedict Evans looks at what could return to normal after coronavirus, and what else might have accelerated change that was already happening. "Every time we get a new kind of tool, weā¦
- rt.live
Kevin Systrom, founder of Instagram, has been working on this site that gives up-to-date reads on Rt by state, giving a read on how fast the coronavirus is spreading. These are up-to-date values for Rt, a key measureā¦
- Building in World 2.0
Daniel Gross has a good list of things that will change post-coronavirus lockdown ā patterns of lifesytle, businesses, real estate, and others: A few notable ones: The (temporary) end of cities. We might see a temporaā¦
- Weekend Reading: The State and the Virus, Future of Work, and Stephen Wolfram's Setup
š The Individual, the State, and the Virus I agree with most of Kling's takes here on the role the state should play in the coronavirus crisis. š©š½āš» Mapping the Future of Work A nice comprehensive list of SaaS proā¦
- A Failure, But Not of Prediction
This is the best piece I've seen on the swirling controversy around the coronavirus pandemic response: on experts, the WHO, government response. The problem is not that experts don't always have the answer (which theyā¦
- Family Life in Quarantine
March 12th was the last time I was at the office. We went full remote starting the next day. The 13th was Elyse's last day in person at her school. Spring break was slated for the following week anyway, but she starteā¦
- An Empty New York City
Amazing photos of New York by day, streets abandoned in the throes of quarantine due to COVID-19.
- Bill Gates on Coronavirus
A solid interview with Bill Gates with his thoughts on the COVID response. There aren't many folks outside of the medical field more versed in this topic based on empirical experience than Gates. Interesting to hear hā¦
- Weekend Reading: Cloud Services, Cities After the Virus, and Corona Care Map
āļø Value of Cloud Based Services in Times of Crisis Bryan wrote this post about how Fulcrum is supporting the COVID response efforts. š Cities After Coronavirus I speculated a bit about this sort of thing earlier thiā¦
- LessWrong Coronavirus Links Database
A great resource for data, research, papers, articles, and more.
- Face Masks: More Than You Wanted to Know
There's been non-stop discussion lately on Twitter about protective equipment: efficacy, supply chains, costs, you name it. Scott Alexander has the definitive analysis of N95 face masks. The title says it all.
- Under Quarantine
It's a weird time right now across the globe. People all over are quarantined, either because of government mandate or self-isolation from others to try and stop the spread of the coronavirus. I don't think the worldā¦
- Dan Wang's COVID Observations from Beijing
An interesting post from China analyst Dan Wang, who lives in Beijing, on the current state of the city in the throes of response to the coronavirus response and containment: I see quarantine enforcement. One day in eā¦