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Mr Beast & Elon Musk vs Barnes & Noble! What is Operational Alpha & Why Does It Matter?
What Moldy Cheese, Nuclear Weapons, and Bookstores Teach Us About Why Competence Is Harder Than It Looks
Dec 4
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Dave Deek
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In the Real World, YIMBYs (and Pronatalism) Aren't Just Good, They're Great!
Purpose of A System is What It Does, not what "Very Online" people say it is
Dec 2
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Dave Deek
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Job Uncertainty Lowers Men's Fertility Intentions In Sweden
Men unsure about recovery wanted children at 44%, dropping 17 percentage points below confident men. Men who simply rated their prospects as poor showed…
Dec 1
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Dave Deek
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November 2025
Why Rising Rent Means You'll Never Start That Business! Housing Costs vs Entrepreneurship
When housing costs rise 10%, young renters see business formation fall 8% while homeowners see it rise 7%
Nov 24
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Dave Deek
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Isaac Asimov's Foundation & Why China/Singapore Want More Manufacturing Jobs
Manufacturing creates 27 service jobs per 100 workers. That matters
Nov 20
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Dave Deek
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Evolution Keeps Inventing Crabs (And So Does Medical Industrial Policy) : Operation Warp Speed & Japan's "Wasteful" MRIs
Like how everyone evolve into crabs, medical industrial policy ends up gaining similar set of traits
Nov 14
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Dave Deek
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What Is State Capacity? Does China Have It? Does America Really Lack It?
A crash course on the nature of state capacity
Nov 13
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Dave Deek
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Introducing Factory Settings
A new series about how CHIPS succeeded
Published on Factory Settings
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Nov 10
October 2025
Can you actually build implementation capacity (across states) in K-12 education?
My notes on a paper 10 years in the making.
Oct 30
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Dave Deek
Even More Pronatalist Research Showing Local Governments Can Boost Birth Rates (Study: 1,741 Cities in Japan!)
Tokyo and Osaka show identical urban fertility penalties, but Nagoya escaped through aggressive municipal child welfare spending
Oct 27
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Dave Deek
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Why are mothers in the developed world are having less kids?
Mothers worldwide are slowly (not rapidly) but persistently having fewer children
Oct 17
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Dave Deek
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The Pentagon’s Best Schools & Safest Nuclear Program with the Expanse’s “Dream of Mars”
The United States' hidden cache of state capacity inside the Department of Defense
Oct 14
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Dave Deek
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