The vaccine: Who gets to go first

Prioritizing who gets the vaccine first is difficult. One can argue that healthcare workers should be first as they are essential to society. If they are safe, everyone benefits. The argument for the elderly going first is straightforward: it will save more lives. As...

Lessons from Uber

I think this is instructive: Study of 1 million Uber drivers. Uber doesn’t pay based on sex or gender. But male Uber drivers make 7% more than female drivers. The study was conducted before Uber had in-app tipping, but other studies have shown that generally...

Yahooligans at work

First thought was this was going to unwarranted “old boys network” gripes. Does not appear that way. “When Savitt began at Yahoo the top managers reporting to her … including the chief editors of the verticals and magazines, were less than 20 percent...