Patrick McKenzie

Just putting that out there.

Again, this is the thing the United States has done before.

There are laws in place.

There are decades of practice.

We could put a colonel's uniform on somebody.

Think seriously about doing that next time.

Do I think we have institutionally absorbed all the correct lessons from this?

know when I see like after action reports the after action reports praise a lot of the things that people think are like very important for maintaining their political coalition which were either not productive or anti-productive and they fail to identify things that were the you know the true issues and to the extent that they identify things that were the true issues the sort of recommended action is well I hope someone fixes this next time and

It's no longer sufficient.

The default case is that the ball will be dropped.

And goodness, those of us who were involved in an accident CA kind of dread what we call the bat signal, where, God willing, there will not be another worldwide pandemic killing millions of people as long as we live.

If there is one, we know what numbers to text to get the band back together.

So, effectively, every time that we had, let me say, a verbal green light with regards to money, I would advance the company, the charity.

Charities are companies, by the way, folks.

I don't know if that is obvious.

It was called the Shots Incorporated.

so I would in advance call the shots the money that was sort of soft committed before the money would actually arrive in the bank and the theory that like this accelerates our impact we should always choose acceleration over other things like say minimizing credit risk and then you know some of the people who had like soft committed did not

actually end up wiring money at the end of the day.

And I was like, oh, shoot.

Well, you know, choices now are either don't run the last payroll or do run the last payroll.