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Dec 5, 2020

Tara McGowan, the CEO of political operation Acronym, spent nearly $100 million to persuade key swing voters. Here’s her plan to counter right-wing media for good.

The Democratic Operative Who Beat Trump on Facebook Is Bracing for the War Ahead U.S. President Donald Trump leaves the White House to visit troops at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center December 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images By Alex Pasternack Tara McGowan should be celebrating. Acronym, her three-year-old political outfit, placed a $100 million bet on a digital-first campaign…

News

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Tara McGowan, the CEO of political operation Acronym, spent nearly $100 million to persuade key…
Tara McGowan, the CEO of political operation Acronym, spent nearly $100 million to persuade key…

Nov 26, 2020

Modern storage is plenty fast. It is the APIs that are bad.

I have spent almost the entire last decade in a fairly specialized product company, building high performance I/O systems. I had the opportunity to see storage technology evolve rapidly and decisively. Talking about storage and its developments felt like preaching to the choir. This year, I have switched jobs. Being…

Storage

11 min read

Modern storage is plenty fast. It is the APIs that are bad.
Modern storage is plenty fast. It is the APIs that are bad.

Nov 21, 2020

Do Americans Understand How Bad Covid in America Really Is?

America just passed a grim, shocking milestone. A quarter of a million people are now dead from Covid. And while Americans — at least the sane ones — have some inkling that this is a tragedy, they don’t quite seem to grasp just what a catastrophe it really is. The…

Politics

8 min read


Nov 21, 2020

Do Americans Understand How Bad Covid in America Really Is?

America just passed a grim, shocking milestone. A quarter of a million people are now dead from Covid. And while Americans — at least the sane ones — have some inkling that this is a tragedy, they don’t quite seem to grasp just what a catastrophe it really is. The…

Politics

8 min read


Nov 21, 2020

Do Americans Understand How Bad Covid in America Really Is?

America just passed a grim, shocking milestone. A quarter of a million people are now dead from Covid. And while Americans — at least the sane ones — have some inkling that this is a tragedy, they don’t quite seem to grasp just what a catastrophe it really is. The…

Life

8 min read


Nov 21, 2020

What to make of more than 70m Americans who voted for Trump?

Donald Trump’s crushing defeat in the 2020 US presidential election was a psychological triumph for humanity at large. The peoples of the world needed catharsis from the terror of Donald Trump that Americans perpetrated upon them, so they wished for his humiliating defeat. This collective wish had nothing to do…

Trump

7 min read

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