Would be good if you used the quotes on optimism in the summary.
"if we are really facing an existential threat, as I think the science would suggest, we have to address it with optimism, recognising that pessimism is an indulgence, despair always an insight to the imagination, just as orthodoxy is the enemy of invention," said Wade Davis in conversation with James Strock.
Interesting guy. Fascinating interview. But somebody needs to pee on his Rolling Stone piece, so it might as well be me. It's hyperbolic and mostly downright silly. What happens to that piece if we consider one patent fact: we did not shut down the airlines in late January 2020 when it was clear that we needed to do so (https://necsi.edu/systemic-risk-of-pandemic-via-novel-pathogens-coronavirus-a-note). Most of Wade's piece dissipates when confronted with the facts of the math of convexity. The piece fails to consider the key, principal driver of the pandemic; modern connectivity. It took 300+ years for the Black Plague to travel from Turkey to Northern Italy. It took a weekend for it to travel from Wuhan to New York and thereby to most of the connected world. Pandemics have been with us forever. The difference today is that pandemics sit in First Class on China Airlines. Fault rich American's all ya' want for failing to shut down their beloved airlines (I think about a quarter of American adults have never been on a plane? Air travel is still, mostly, a rich persons game). But Wade didn't do this in his piece. He missed the driver. Ken
I keep getting his first and last name backwards. I do NOT know him on a first name basis! 🤣. Supplant "Wade" with "Davis." Thanks. Not the first guy to make that mistake, I suspect. Sorry 'bout that. No change to the point of my comment. Happy New Year to all!
Thanks for sharing, Ken. One thing you and Wade Davis share is you're both highly intelligent, informed, and engaged--and open to a bit of back and forth. The rest of us can always learn from that interaction.
Would be good if you used the quotes on optimism in the summary.
"if we are really facing an existential threat, as I think the science would suggest, we have to address it with optimism, recognising that pessimism is an indulgence, despair always an insight to the imagination, just as orthodoxy is the enemy of invention," said Wade Davis in conversation with James Strock.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/serve-to-lead-james-strock/id1467295170?i=1000681966227
More sound advice? Wade said, "I tend to be eternally #optimistic because I don't think as a #father and #grandfather you have any choice."
Thank you Victor. Wade Davis is terrific, really makes one think.
Interesting guy. Fascinating interview. But somebody needs to pee on his Rolling Stone piece, so it might as well be me. It's hyperbolic and mostly downright silly. What happens to that piece if we consider one patent fact: we did not shut down the airlines in late January 2020 when it was clear that we needed to do so (https://necsi.edu/systemic-risk-of-pandemic-via-novel-pathogens-coronavirus-a-note). Most of Wade's piece dissipates when confronted with the facts of the math of convexity. The piece fails to consider the key, principal driver of the pandemic; modern connectivity. It took 300+ years for the Black Plague to travel from Turkey to Northern Italy. It took a weekend for it to travel from Wuhan to New York and thereby to most of the connected world. Pandemics have been with us forever. The difference today is that pandemics sit in First Class on China Airlines. Fault rich American's all ya' want for failing to shut down their beloved airlines (I think about a quarter of American adults have never been on a plane? Air travel is still, mostly, a rich persons game). But Wade didn't do this in his piece. He missed the driver. Ken
I keep getting his first and last name backwards. I do NOT know him on a first name basis! 🤣. Supplant "Wade" with "Davis." Thanks. Not the first guy to make that mistake, I suspect. Sorry 'bout that. No change to the point of my comment. Happy New Year to all!
Thanks for sharing, Ken. One thing you and Wade Davis share is you're both highly intelligent, informed, and engaged--and open to a bit of back and forth. The rest of us can always learn from that interaction.