Exceptional individuals to drive transformational changes that accrete over the long term.

I would hazard that good tech CEOs see top end engineering talent as the greatest long term constraint on their ability to remain technically relevant and competitive over time 2/

A strong parallel to the teacher case as I see it is the tendency to look narrowly at whether there is a qualified individual with a pulse to fill a job opening - rather than looking at 2nd and 3rd order effects like the impact of high end talent on organizational culture or opportunities for 1/

Do we see any evidence of a glut of CS talent? Even in a local area? Where wages are suppressed to intolerably low levels or CS grads are delivering DoorDash to make ends meet?

Is their goal wage suppression or simply ++ talent supply?

Sure one begets the other in an Econ 101 sense so the question is whether there’s a talent shortage or a desire to drive down the cost of talent. My sense is the former and this is more about enlightened self interest than equity per se

Camp David’s handling of the Palestinian question was disastrously tone deaf and the ensuing assassination of Sadat paved the way for a new generation of extremists and a 30-year strongman regime that fell in chaos.

Peace between 2 nations is a fine tree but the forest is burning

For me nuclear nonproliferation and airline dereg keep him from a failing grade, and he gets his worst marks on leadership and meeting the moment - where I think experts tend to underrate the conventional negative view of his presidency.

Camp David has to look ineffectual in hindsight, no?

What are your metrics?

The sturm and drang and moral dudgeon surrounding Trump obscure the ways in which he is, at his core, a pragmatist

I woke up one morning at 5:30 am to “Daddy daddy daddy daddy
Fa la la la la lala la la”

I feel like anyone who was around for MOOCs could have seen this coming

Couldn’t we say that the tendencies you describe characterize American education generally, but they get thrown into sharp relief in disciplines like early reading where effective instructional practices have been identified and validated (which to my knowledge hasn’t happened in CS yet)?

Are they pitching an education angle?

I’d say they’re just normie views (at a time when normies’ institutional power in many facets of American society appears to be ebbing)