ASB Partners Nuggets 12.27.24

This is a short weekly email that covers a few things I’ve found interesting during the week.

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Interesting Links/Reads

Many links are sourced from Marginal Revolution

1. CEOs, the Deep State and Trumpian Optimism (WSJ)

   On another level, the election outcome is the most overdetermined reaction in history—a reaction against a class of mostly white elites who don’t really care about blacks, trans people, immigrants or climate but revel in moral grandiosity and self-righteousness over other, mostly but not exclusively less affluent whites.

2.Patrick Collison @patrickc · Dec 18 Increasingly believe that the "good, cheap, fast—choose two" maxim is devious misinformation spread by the slow. In my experience, "slow" and "expensive" usually go together. I was in a meeting yesterday where lopping a year off a project schedule also ended up reducing the cost

3. We are losing squirrel mobility.

4. EU facts of the day

5.Steve Davis, Elon Musk’s Go-To Cost-Cutter Is Working for DOGE

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Podcast/Videos

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• See article “Food Can’t Be Medicine Until We Can Research it Like Medicine.“

• Variability in food composition makes controlled studies nearly impossible compared to drug studies.

• Foundational Principles vs. Marginal Adjustments

  • Core factors like energy balance, protein, and essential nutrients matter most.

Key Takeaway: Most dietary details beyond the basics fall into low-priority concerns (“fourth and fifth-order terms”) and have little effect on health outcomes compared to the foundational elements.

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I hope you enjoyed it.

Adam