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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

Political science, government service, and law — Yale has the #1 rated law school in the US and a long history of alumni serving in government. For example, Yale could launch a center focused on applying political science thinking to the governance of major internet businesses (e.g., the world’s largest country, Facebook).

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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

And they got really into the idea of wearing masks and within three days, the whole country had masks, within three days with no government support. And for them, a lot of it was this kind of weird anti-government thing. A lot of them seemed to hate their government and they were annoyed that the government wasn't doing anything.