Episode 184 — Good is Better than Perfect

Ben and James discuss masks and Twitter’s decision to delete tweets about COVID-19.

Links

• Zeynep Tufekci: Why Telling People They Don’t Need Masks Backfired — The New York Times (nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-fac…)

• Ben Thompson: Unmasking Twitter — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2020/unmasking-twitter)

• Ben Thompson: Compaq and Coronavirus — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2020/compaq-and-coronavirus)

• Ben Thompson: Zero Trust Information — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2020/zero-trust-information)

• China’s Decision to Leave Asymptomatic Patients off Coronavirus Infection Tally Sparks Debate — Caixin (caixinglobal.com/2020-03-01/chinas-decision-to…)

• Ben Thompson: Apple’s Organizational Crossroads — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2016/apples-organizational-cro…)

• Ben Thompson: Books and Blogs — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/books-and-blogs)

• Why It’s So Freaking Hard To Make A Good COVID-19 Model — FiveThirtyEight (fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-its-so-freaki…)

Hosts

• Ben Thompson, @benthompson (twitter.com/benthompson), Stratechery (stratechery.com)

• James Allworth, @jamesallworth (twitter.com/jamesallworth), Harvard Business Review (hbr.org/search?term=James+Allworth&sort=po…)

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