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• "The COVID-19 crisis is simultaneously thrusting Americans into the pre-urban homestead economy of the 1830s, re-creating the Depression-era joblessness of the 1930s, and pulling forward the virtual e …

  

  Mike Doeff

  

  3 Keys to Understanding the Strangest Economy Ever

  The Atlantic - Derek Thompson

  In the time that U.S. deaths have increased from 100 to more than 100,000, the S&P 500 has gone up 20 percent. In an age punctuated with almost biblical chaos—plague, brutality, and surreal images of the president posing with a holy book he fumbles like a strange cut of meat—there has been one …

• "...think about what the future of work looks like: less peer pressure and office politics, less need to run around looking pretty or showing up to show you’re there no need to chase crazy trends and …

  

  Mike Doeff

  

  Why every tech downturn has a silver lining

  om.co

  San Francisco was a very bleak place in the aftermath of the dot.com meltdown that began in the spring of 2000. Every single day of that summer I …

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  Mike Doeff

  

  Silicon Valley Rethinks the (Home) Office

  WIRED - Arielle Pardes

  Some tech companies are adjusting to the pandemic with new WFH perks and even letting employees ditch their commutes forever. For years, tech …

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  Mike Doeff

  

  Tech Workers Consider Escaping Silicon Valley’s Sky-High Rents

  Bloomberg - Sarah Frier

  Sachin Dhar thought he and his fiancée had a great deal paying $2,650 per month for a one-bedroom rental in South San Francisco, a short commute from …

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  Mike Doeff

  

  Can AI flag disease outbreaks faster than humans? Not quite

  ABC News - MATT O'BRIEN and CHRISTINA LARSON Associated Press

  Global health authorities are increasingly using artificial intelligence to track emerging epidemics BOSTON -- Did an artificial-intelligence system …

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  Mike Doeff

  

  The Presidio starts building James Corner-designed parkland over highway tunnels

  Curbed - Adam Brinklow

  On Thursday, after a decade of waiting, the Presidio touched off its plan to build a sprawling 14-acre park directly atop the Presidio Parkway tunnels, a $118 million project that will—fingers crossed—open to the public in two years. The trust started the design phase of the Tunnel Tops project in …