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How to Write the AI Action Plan
Dean Ball: "The Deep State is totally real."
Sep 10
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Santi Ruiz
and
Dean W. Ball
20
6
1:25:05
August 2025
Leninist Technocracy with Grand Opera Characteristics
"What puny civilization are we living in?”
Aug 28
•
Santi Ruiz
33
3
1:20:47
Four Ways to Fix Government HR
“If you make the civil service more stultified, you have to contract stuff out”
Aug 21
•
Santi Ruiz
17
6
1:03:01
Order of Operations in a Regime Change
A review of Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union, by Vladislav Zubok
Aug 15
•
Santi Ruiz
33
7
How to Be a Good Intelligence Analyst
“The first to get thrown under the bus is the intelligence community”
Aug 7
•
Santi Ruiz
67
7
1:01:25
July 2025
How to Fix Foreign Aid
USAID's former Chief Economist reflects on DOGE
Jul 31
•
Santi Ruiz
29
5
1:14:01
How Cheaply Could We Build High-Speed Rail?
“Amtrak and the commuter rail agencies have a mutually abusive relationship”
Jul 23
•
Santi Ruiz
33
6
56:31
Governance Lessons From the Constitutional Convention
How Franklin, Madison, and Washington got things done, from 2022
Jul 4
•
Santi Ruiz
24
3
13:42
More (Brief) Thoughts On DOGE
What have we learned in the last three months?
Jul 3
•
Santi Ruiz
86
24
June 2025
How to Predict the Future
Jason Matheny on IARPA, originally published November 2023
Jun 25
•
Santi Ruiz
22
1
1:24:18
How UK Biobank Was Built
Founding an institution that won't pay off for decades
Jun 19
•
Santi Ruiz
22
48:44
What Can We Learn From Estonia?
"You can’t bribe a computer"
Jun 12
•
Santi Ruiz
32
3
46:18
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