After a bit of a hiatus, the weekly link dump is back, with a collection of posts and articles that are all worth a look.
As yet another third world country struggles with its experiment in democracy, David Allen Green looks at the contest between violent populism and constitutionalism – and why it was not inevitable that yesterday’s attempted coup in the United States would fail.
Alex Woodie looks at The Benefits Of Endless Modernization. I was surprised to see that replacing a software application and starting from scratch had a 26 percent success rate — I expected it to be much lower.
Yvette d’Entremont explains Herd Immunity and why it isn’t a viable approach to beating an active pandemic with a large swath of at risk people.
“It might be no accident that our worst PMs disproportionately attended private school”. Chris Dillow on bad government.
Lightly Seared on the Reality Grill 
Use telegram.org or signal app. No Google or Facebook connection. 😉
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At the moment, I don’t use anything.
I keep looking at Signal. The main problem is that I would then have to convince enough people to switch to make it worthwhile.
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Yes. I know. I just uninstalled WhatsApp today. Before I did I told people I’m on telegram. If they want to talk there, great. If not…oh well. 😉
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I should do the same. Install either Signal or Telegram, tell people where I am and see who follows me.
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Yup.
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