The marketing flywheel

I’m past this but if I were young and ambitious I would take the flywheel concept to heart and build sustaining systems.

Policing in America

What has gone so horribly wrong and can the situation be repaired?

perhaps policies and training?

Evidence and data  often lose out to political considerations.

Crime has been falling but incarceration and frankly brutality are increasing.

Taibbi has some thoughts.

the Marshall project  curates articles on criminal “justice”.  Radley Balko has been on the beat for a decade and has great reporting and insights.  His blog, The Agitator, seems to be gone but he writes prolifically.

I’m saddened to see the devolution of so many institutions.

Health care

Legal system 

Education 

Postal service 

Politics in the era of citizens United (though that just codified existing practice...)

Privatization of public goods everywhere

Winner take all

Some thoughts on scientific theory

epistemology

Ultimately I find this link a bit empty but it did stimulate my thinking