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Santi Ruiz
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Santi Ruiz writes Statecraft, a personal blog at statecraft.pub about politics and economics. Since 2023, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “How to stop losing 17,500 kidneys”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
How policymakers get things done. Click to read Statecraft, by Santi Ruiz, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- How to stop losing 17,500 kidneys4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-04-10
- How to Catch a Lab Leak3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-03
- How to Replicate Operation Warp Speed2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-10
- Thoughts on DOGE2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-07
- How to Investigate the Federal Government2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-30
- How to Secure Weapons-Grade Uranium2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-11
What Hacker News says?
Shameless plug but you might also be interested in Estonia's story if you want to hear about how a formerly Communist country also became quite developed in a single generation (and churned out startups like Pipedrive, Veriff, Bolt, Wise and partially Skype). I wrote a book about it which of course I hope you check out, but I also went pretty in depth in this interview: https://www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-digitize-t…
Comment linking /p/how-to-digitize-the-government
on “Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story”Submitted How to stop losing 17,500 kidneys as a story · 126 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Catch a Lab Leak as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on DOGE as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Stop Losing 17,500 Kidneys as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Save DC's Metro as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Can We Learn from Estonia? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Doge as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Stop Losing 17,500 Kidneys as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Calm Oil Markets as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Stop Losing 17,500 Kidneys as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ten Thoughts on Government Data as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Be a Good Intelligence Analyst as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Build the British ARPA as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Catch a Lab Leak as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Investigate the Federal Government as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Fix the State Department as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Replicate Operation Warp Speed as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's Wrong with NIH Grants? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Salvage a Nuclear Waste Facility as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Catch a Lab Leak as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Investigate the Federal Goverment as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Secure Weapons-Grade Uranium as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Speedrun a New Drug Application as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Speedrun a New Drug Application as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Pass the Chips and Science Act as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Replicate Operation Warp Speed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Run Good DARPA Programs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Secure Weapons-Grade Uranium as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Save Twenty Million Lives, with Dr. Mark Dybul as a story · 1 points
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