jonti.bsky.social
11 posts
23 followers
23 following
comment in response to
post
If books could kill is really good.
Also the big dig podcast, it's about the boston project but honestly so well made talks about why we can't build big things in american anymore. They have a second season about the Massachusetts lottery which is also good, but the 1st season is so good!
comment in response to
post
they also had a lot of deaths. look up Apollo 1. After Challenger, NASA basically moved to an incredibly risk averse model.
comment in response to
post
I am being pedantic. But also you can say "I'll give you 3 chances" so idk how true what you are saying is
comment in response to
post
there is zero chance that rule is consistent though.
comment in response to
post
I do think he’s smart at very specific things, like having read eric berger’s spacex books he was clearly important in their success.
But idk why tech bros think that expertise is transferrable. they all think because they know some narrow business vertical they can solve anything. its insane
comment in response to
post
you write "maybe the government should just fix these problems [of data surrounding policy stuff being murky and hard to track]", but even if that were a possibility there is still a ton of work done by politico.
These guys aren't just selling govt data back to them. there is real value made
comment in response to
post
I think this kind of undersells the value that politico pro offers. They pay people to gather data and report on policy, which is useful to people. This setup is very similar to bloomberg terminals, which cost 20,000 /year and are still used by everyone in finance.
comment in response to
post
I want to see grocery store speedrunners. imagine the tech