Marshall and Saga here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

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We're doing something a little different today.

A bunch of folks wrote in with questions from me and Saga

to go over and have a bit of discussion on. We're going to focus on both the

Afghanistan pull out, the anniversary, especially as this episode is coming

after my 11th anniversary yesterday and the broader discussion of

Joe Biden's presidency that comes out of my interview with Franklin 4.

Around halfway into that discussion, we're going to transition to the supercast

exclusive edition of the conversation. We will respond to

supercast subscriber Q&A. If you would like to hear the full version of that

conversation, you can go to realignment.supercast.com or click the link at the top

of the show notes. And then, after that, whether or not you are a supercast

subscriber, I had a great interview with Coco Krum. She is a

really interesting author who is looking at this issue of optimization

and how a society focused on optimizing everything to death

actually created a bunch of problems and vulnerabilities.

It's definitely not a policy book. It's more of a theoretical meditation,

which I think is great to add to her rotations of focusing on this

efficiency issue. So, I hope you all enjoy both this

discussion episode, the Q&A, if you are a subscriber,

and of course, my interview with Coco. Marshall and Saga here, we're doing our

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