Jason Crawford

Great thread from @LNuzhna about working to improve the NIH grant process. I think a lot of effective policy work involves very detailed research into the nuts and bolts of organizations and processes, like this:

Summary thread on an important project: why is it so expensive to build transit in the US?

Here's one: “Luck and the Entrepreneur: The four kinds of luck” by @pmarca

One of my all-time favorite articles is “The Curse of Xanadu,” by Gary Wolf, which ran in @WIRED in 1995. On the surface, it’s a piece of tech history, a story of a dramatic failure. But look closer, and you can find deep philosophical insight

“HTTP and HTML are the Whoopee Cushion and Joy Buzzer of Internet protocols, only comprehensible as elaborate practical jokes.” I'm a day late, but for the WWW's 33rd anniversary, everyone should read @cshirky's excellent “In Praise of Evolvable Systems”