Jeff Holmes: belief

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…It’s certainly true that is a big advantage. But I think as people expand the size and scope of their mental models, they will see you can carve out subsectors of academia, of philanthropy, of government, of private sector that take other maladies very seriously. They’re not going to quite have the same urgency. One big advantage, if you would call it that — not advantage — but other labs were closed unless you were doing COVID work. At least for a while, there was a big substitution into COVID work, and that’s not going to be very common. But I also think the other tasks will benefit a lot from the work done on COVID. The notion of a semi-universal vaccine, a testing to find other viruses, using mRNA vaccine platforms to combat other things — all those will be offshoots of the COVID triumphs. I believe. I hope. I think. We need to see those through and not just give up on them. Yes. All right, let’s jump into the second round of Name That Production Function. These are all related to writing. I think these are a little bit easier, but let’s see. First one: “From engineering, I learned to start with an outline and decide what I wanted to say and then write all the sections to meet my outline. Justice Breyer taught me just write all my paragraphs and then work backwards to figure out what I had to say after the fact.” Engineering? Justice Breyer? Who do we have on these shows? [laughter]…

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