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This Week's GeekWire Podcasts How to upgrade democracy: Former Microsoft executive Jon DeVaan’s primer on political reform The Jan. 6 breach and riot at the U.S. Capitol, and the larger effort to overturn the results of the election, have brought new attention to the larger need for political reform -- fixing the bugs in the system of democracy, to use a metaphor offered by Jon DeVaan, a former Microsoft engineering leader, who has become a political reform activist since retiring from the company in 2013 after more than 36 years here. 14 U.S. health systems form new Seattle startup, plan to pool data in search for breakthroughs A group of 14 U.S. health systems, representing tens of millions of patients across 40 states, will pool their data using software developed by Seattle startup Truveta, leveraging artificial intelligence to search for medical breakthroughs and previously undetected patterns of inequity in healthcare. Amazon’s business secrets: Former insiders explain how the tech giant really works in new book How will Amazon maintain its culture as it approaches 1.3 million employees and prepares for its founder Jeff Bezos to step down as CEO?

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