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The recommended DeSantis strategy of defending the frontrunner seems totally ridiculous to me. Klein goes further in a follow-up post: none of this advice is in line with his 2021 strategies of anti-wokeness.
![See new Tweets Conversation Ethan Mollick @emollick With few exceptions, you should NEVER start generating new ideas in a group - always start with people writing ideas alone and only then move to a group setting. (We've known starting with groups is worse for 50 years, but people still keep doing it since it feels more creative) See new Tweets Conversation Ethan Mollick @emollick With few exceptions, you should NEVER start generating new ideas in a group - always start with people writing ideas alone and only then move to a group setting. (We've known starting with groups is worse for 50 years, but people still keep doing it since it feels more creative)](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83bf07aa-6bc4-4955-b8dd-00a813d809c5_1158x998.png)
Earlier in the thread Mollick points to two other findings about creativity: constraints help, and kids are not more creative than adults. He also argues that you should include AI in your idea generation process.
![Catherine Rampell @crampell Ozempic & Wegovy are tilting scales of Denmark’s economy Danish drugmaker’s US sales have been so strong it's had to convert $ into kroner in unusually large quantities, raising krone’s value relative to euro, requiring rate cuts to maintain krone-euro peg Catherine Rampell @crampell Ozempic & Wegovy are tilting scales of Denmark’s economy Danish drugmaker’s US sales have been so strong it's had to convert $ into kroner in unusually large quantities, raising krone’s value relative to euro, requiring rate cuts to maintain krone-euro peg](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdcd7e5a0-fde5-4739-b72a-c5f8aad9578b_1148x1172.png)
Another interesting factoid about these drugs is that they're based on research into exotic lizard saliva, funded by the NIH. It’s good to fund basic research!
Longer Reads
• Long post about Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese American silent film star.
Flotsam and Jetsam
– Roosevelt Institute advocating against policies FDR would have favored (src)
– Nigerian and Nigerien refer to people from two different countries. And they all appear to be mad at the French (src)
– China is opposed to giving people money as a form of stimulus for ideological reasons. Noah Smith quips: "Keynesianism is America's superpower" (src)
– By naming his app 'X', Musk makes it hard to find the close button in UIs. (src)
– Inclusionary zoning must always be set up as additional density above what's zoned. It doesn’t work otherwise (src)
– Chinese diplomats funding Canadian student associations to monitor and coerce other students (src)
– Dental health RCT shows that better teeth make everyone have better self-reported mental health, plus a ton more benefits specific to women. (src)
– Canada has city-specific political parties, this is good. (src)
– Updated hurricane forecast indicates it's going a bit further east and will not make landfall in California (src)