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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

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This article will focus on the impact of hospitals in that equation, specifically those public health system owned and controlled by local Governments. [2]. Further into their lifecycle, though, they found themselves beholden to certain financial and governance handicaps. Hospital System Roots. Unions often cast an outsized presence.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

So one of my long running rants has been about how we should gather all the evidence we have to try and make a best guess as to the distribution of possible outcomes based on possible upsides and possible risks and costs and make an overall assessment of that totality of evidence and impacts. We don't have to wait for the government.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers.

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Create High-Impact Data Visualizations: Nine Effective Strategies

Occam's Razor

Follow the story of Louisiana as you reflect on the data. That’s what you are seeing in the distribution above. Bonus: In the spirit of government data, I’ll be remiss if I did not share with you three examples of interactive scatter plots from Our World in Data (produced by the University of Oxford).

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