Saturday assorted links

1. Why aren’t there more dogs in the doctor’s office?

2. Design theorist Christopher Alexander has passed away.

3. Forthcoming Balaji book on how to start a new country.

4. Dominic Cummings on nuclear strategy.

5. Supposed EA blindspots (mostly not my views, by the way, but still an interesting engagement).

6. Putin on art, and what it is like for a Canadian woman to have dinner with him.  And another piece with “He considered the fact that primarily women were responsible for Russia policy in the Obama administration to be an intentional attempt to humiliate him.”  Link here.

7. Tanner Greer Op-Ed on Ukraine (NYT).  He is the Scholar’s Stage blogger.