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13 April 2024

Read : 2024-04-13

Articles for reading

  1. “The Americans who long for Caesar” by Jeffery Tyler Syck (Persuasion, 2024-04-10).

Articles for reference

Athletics

  1. “Stop over-optimizing everything” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-04-10).

Books

  1. “How a science fiction obsession led me to psychological war” by Annalee Newitz (The Hypothesis, 2024-04-09).
  2. “What to read to understand how economists think” (The Economist, 2022-08-09).

Economics

  1. “Producer price indexes—March 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-04-11).
  2. “Consumer price index—March 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-04-10).
  3. “When will Americans see those interest-rate cuts?” (The Economist, 2024-04-10).
  4. “The rich world faces a brutal spending crunch” (The Economist, 2024-04-09).
  5. “Why economists are at war over inequality” (The Economist, 2023-11-30).

Education

  1. “Return to required testing” by Dean Hopi Hoekstra (Harvard FAS, 2024-04-11).
  2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-04-08). Subtitled, “We’re covering a university that combines diversity and excellence…”.

Mathematics

  1. “Episode 204: Math—it’s not just numbers” (Harvard Radcliffe Institute > Born Curious, 2024-03-14). 52m audio recording with transcript.

Politics

  1. “Vinay Prasad on what went wrong with COVID” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-04-13). 60m audio recording with transcript.
  2. “The Americans who long for Caesar” by Jeffery Tyler Syck (Persuasion, 2024-04-10).
  3. “Forgiveness plan: Who qualifies and how it would work” by Andrew Restuccia, Oyin Adedoyin (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-08).
  4. “Biden’s latest lawless student loan forgiveness” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-08).

Science

  1. “Why non-neuron brain cells are sparking excitement” by Yasemin Saplakoglu (Quanta Magazine, 2024-04-09).

Society

  1. “New York Times bosses seek to quash rebellion in the newsroom” by Alexandra Bruell (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-12).
  2. “Social media, not the economy, is harming teen mental health” by Jonathan Haidt (Persuasion, 2024-04-12).
  3. “What Rush hath wrought” by Daniel Oppenheimer (Persuasion, 2024-04-11).

Technology

  1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-04-12). On government regulation of AI.
  2. “Big tech unites around AI workforce training for 100M workers” by Lindsey Wilkinson (CIO Dive, 2024-04-08).

Other

  1. “My fantastic voyage at Quanta Magazine” by Thomas Lin (Quanta Magazine, 2024-04-12).
  2. “What I learned from Daniel Kahneman” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-09).
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7 April 2024

Read : 2024-04-07

Articles for reading

  1. “Hacker answers penetration test questions from Twitter” (WIRED, 2023-09-12). 12m video recording with transcript.

Articles for reference

Athletics

  1. “To perform under pressure, shift your perspective” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-03-14).

Books

  1. “Daniel Kahneman’s final exploration of human error” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-03-31).
  2. “A new book rebukes the ‘luxury beliefs’ of America’s upper class” (The Economist, 2024-03-21). On Rob Henderson’s book, “Troubled”.
  3. “Go read some Vernor Vinge” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-03-21).
  4. “How to calm The Anxious Generation” by Maura Kelly (Harvard Public Health, 2024-03-20). An overview of Jonathan Haidt’s book, “The anxious generation”.
  5. “The rise of Western individualism” by Rob Hendreson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-03-17). A review of “The WEIRDest people in the world”, by Joseph Henrich.
  6. “How worried should people be about Generation Z?” (The Economist, 2024-03-15). Book reviews of “The anxious generation” and “Bad therapy”.
  7. “Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn on Einstein on Einstein” by Hanoch Gutfreund, Jürgen Renn (Princeton University Press, 2020-05-18).

Business and investing

  1. “The psychologist who turned the investing world on its head” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-29). On Daniel Kahneman.
  2. “As markets soar, should investors look beyond America?” (The Economist, 2024-03-24).
  3. “More than half of new jobs in math occupations expected to be for data scientists” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-03-14).
  4. “Is the bull market about to turn into a bubble?” (The Economist, 2024-03-11).

Cybersecurity

  1. “A stealth attack came close to compromising the world’s computers” (The Economist, 2024-04-02). On the malware uncovered in XZ utils.
  2. “What we know about the XZ Utils backdoor that almost infected the world” by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica, 2024-04-01).
  3. “Red Hat warns of backdoor in widely used Linux utility” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-04-01).
  4. “U.S. publishes draft federal rules for cyber incident reporting” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-27).
  5. “More warnings emerge about state-linked cyber threats to water infrastructure” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-03-20).
  6. “What to read to understand cyber-security” (The Economist, 2024-02-29).
  7. “Cyber incident reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA) reporting requirements” (US Department of Homeland Security, 2024-??-??).
  8. “Hacker answers penetration test questions from Twitter” (WIRED, 2023-09-12). 12m video recording with transcript.
  9. “North Korea hacked him. So he took down its Internet” by Andy Greenberg (WIRED, 2022-02-02).

Economics

  1. “The employment situation—March 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-04-05).
  2. “The Federal Reserve cleans up its money-printing mess” (The Economist, 2024-04-04).
  3. “Central banks have spent down their credibility” (The Economist, 2024-04-03).
  4. “ADP national employment report—March 2024” (ADP Research Institute, 2024-04-03).
  5. “Job openings and labor turnover—February 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-04-02).
  6. “Information about the information industry’s productivity and growth” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-04-02).
  7. “The decade of the second China shock” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-03-23).
  8. “Why ‘Freakonomics’ failed to transform economics” (The Economist, 2024-03-21).
  9. “Total factor productivity—2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-03-21).
  10. “Why America can’t escape inflation worries” (The Economist, 2024-03-20).
  11. “How we could return to the productivity growth of the 1990s” by Preston Mui (Noahpinion, 2024-03-18).
  12. “Producer price indices—February 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-03-14).
  13. “Consumer price index—February 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-03-12).
  14. “What soft landing?” by Michael R. Strain (Project Syndicate, 2024-03-11).
  15. “The employment situation—February 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-03-08).
  16. “The shift that explains lofty markets: The economy got more productive” by James Mackintosh (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-07).
  17. “ADP national employment report” (ADP, 2024-03-06). Change in US private employment for February 2024: 140k. Employment for January revised up, from 107k to 110k. Pay gains: for job-stayers, decreased to 5.1%; for job-changers, increased from 7.2% to 7.6%.
  18. “Job openings and labor turnover—January 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-03-06).

Education

  1. “The morning” by Sarah Mervosh (The New York Times, 2024-03-29). Subtitled, “We’re covering a crisis of school absenteeism…”.
  2. “Should universities be taking official stances on political, social issues of day?” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-03-06).

Health, medicine, and wellness

  1. “” by A big week for GLP-1 drugs (Eric Topol, 2024-04-06).
  2. “Daniel Drucker: Illuminating the GLP-1 drug’s break out” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-04-06). 37m audio recording with transcript.
  3. “Covid, 4 years on” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-03-13).
  4. “Potential link to an everyday food in cancer findings” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-03-06).
  5. “There’s plastic in my plaque!” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-03-06).
  6. “5 ways poor sleep affects the body” by Katie McCallum (Houston Methodist, 2024-02-29).

Law

  1. “‘What ultimately matters is the substance of the analytical framework…whether that framework is called Chevron’ or not” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2024-04-02). Aditya Bamzai on the Chevron doctrine.
  2. “The Supreme Court and mifepristone” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-25).
  3. “Why separate powers?” (Harvard Law Today, 2024-03-14).

Mathematics

  1. “Collaboration is changing math for the better” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magaine, 2024-03-25).
  2. “Math that connects where we’re going to where we’ve been” by Patrick Honner (Quanta Magazine, 2024-03-22). On recursion.
  3. “Michel Talagrand wins Abel Prize for work wrangling randomness” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2024-03-20).
  4. “How the world takes shape” by Paul Massari (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2024-03-15). An interview with Jordan Ellenberg.
  5. “‘The rest of the world disappears’: Claire Voisin on mathematical creativity” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2024-03-13).
  6. “Unfolding the mysteries of polygonal billiards” by David S. Richeson (Quanta Magazine, 2024-02-15).

Politics

  1. “This Korean election shows how fragile our democracy is” by Jung-Ok Lee (Zócalo, 2024-04-04).
    The lesson from Korea is that establishing democratic structures and institutions is not enough to have real democracy. Real democracy requires deep participation from across society.
  2. “Intel and industrial policy in action” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-03).
  3. “Jonathan Lynn on how government works (and “Yes, Minister”)” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-03-23). 60m audio recording with transcript.
  4. “America is sliding toward Chinese-style capitalism” by Greg Ip (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-21).
  5. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-03-21). Subtitled “We’re covering the rightward shift among voters of color…”.
  6. “We’re falling into Trump’s trap…again” by Sam Kahn (Persuasion, 2024-03-18).
  7. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-03-15). Subtitled, “We’re covering a new Times Magazine story on affirmative action…”.
  8. “China, the West, and The three-body problem” by Jason Garshfield (Quillette, 2024-03-15).
  9. “‘Dune’ is a warning about political heroes and their tribes” (The Economist, 2024-03-14).
  10. “What just happened in San Francisco politics?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-03-13).
  11. “What Nikki Haley accomplished” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-06).

Science

  1. “Dark energy may be weakening, major astrophysics study finds” by Charlie Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2024-04-04).
  2. “How physicists are exploring and rethinking time” by Charle Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2024-04-01).
  3. “Holden Thorp: Straight talk from the editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-03-17).
  4. “The unpredictable strong force continues to surprise physicists” by Charlie Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2024-??-??).

Society

  1. “Alexandra Hudson on why civility matters” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-04-06). 58m audio recording with transcript.
  2. “Jonathan Haidt on the anxious generation” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-03-30). 62 m audio recording with transcript.
  3. “Why Democrats, Republicans, who appear at war these days, really need each other” by Anna Lamb (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-03-28).
  4. “The fallacious case for abolishing the rich” (The Economist, 2024-03-22).
  5. “Why are we so divided? Zero-sum thinking is part of it.” by Christy DeSmith (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-03-21).
  6. “America is concerned about social media. China is, too” (The Economist, 2024-03-21).
  7. “The gap in today’s journalism” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-03-21). On the history and goal of the website.
  8. “Why young men and women are drifting apart” (The Economist, 2024-03-13).
  9. “What would Benjamin Franklin do…about social media?” by Jeff Neal (Harvard Law Today, 2024-03-13).
  10. “It would be nice to live in a world where college-educated adults had the ability to think beyond words” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-02-12).
  11. “Masculinity, motherhood, and American moxie” by Elizabeth Grace Matthew (Law & Liberty, 2024-02-02).

Technology

  1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-04-05). On AI startup Archetype’s prototype connecting AI to real-time sensors in the physical world.
  2. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-03-29). On AI.
  3. “Lifting a few with my chatbot” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-03-27). Sociologist Sherry Turkle on AI.
  4. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-03-22). On digital images.
  5. “Why AI systems still confound researchers” by Ben Brubaker (Quanta Magazine, 2024-03-18).
  6. “This agency is tasked with keeping AI safe. Its offices are crumbling.” by Cat Zakrzewski (The Washington Post, 2024-03-06).
  7. “The Nvidia chips inside powerful AI supercomputers” by Asa Fitch, Eric Niiler, Peter Champelli (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-06).

Technology : AI : Four-part explainer series by The Economist

  1. “How human intelligence inspired AI” (The Economist, 2024-03-06). 43m audio recording. Part 1 of 4.
  2. “How machines learn” (The Economist, 2024-03-13). 43m audio recording. Part 2 of 4.

Other

  1. “What I’ve learned after two years on Substack (April 2024)” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-04-07).
  2. “‘Intellectually, it was sort of whiplash’” by Christine Perkins (Harvard Law Today, 2024-04-04). HLS’s annual “Why I changed my mind” panel. 57 m video recording at end of summary article.
  3. “Daniel Kahneman was a master of teasing questions” (The Economist, 2024-04-04).
  4. “Against agency” by Marilyn Simon (Quillette, 2024-04-04).
  5. “Achieving greatness without falling apart” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-03-28).
  6. “Yes, it’s exciting. Just don’t look at the sun.” by Anne J. Manning (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-04-01). On the upcoming total solar eclipse.
  7. “Warning for journalists: You’re more ignorant than you realize” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-03-25). A summary of a recent talk featuring Marty Baron.
  8. “Why do men dominate chess?” by Carole Hooven (Quillette, 2024-03-22).
  9. “In defense of craft” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-03-20).
  10. “Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-03-17).
  11. “The more you do, the less you accomplish” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-03-06).
  12. “Negotiating the irrational with Daniel Kahneman” by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy (The Harvard Gazette, 2021-12-06).
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7 March 2024

Read : 2024-03-07

Articles for reading

  1. “‘Harvard thinking’: Our democracy problem” by Samantha Laine Perfas (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-02-28). 33m audio recording with transcript.

Articles for reference

Books

  1. “Troubled is a national bestseller—but weirdly, not a New York Times bestseller” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-03-03).

Business and investing

  1. “What’s behind the US stock-market disconnect?” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2024-03-04).
  2. “A frothy market misses vital bubble ingredients” by James Mackintosh (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-02).
  3. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-03-01). On AI startup Groq.
  4. “Stockmarkets are booming. But the good times are unlikely to last” (The Economist, 2024-02-25).

Cybersecurity

  1. “Calls mount for government help as Change Healthcare hack freezes medical payments” by James Rundle, Kim S. Nash (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-05).
  2. “White House rallies industry support for memory safe programming” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-02-28).
  3. “GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack” by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica, 2024-02-28).
  4. “Ivanti Connect Secure hackers hide in plain sight, evading protections” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-02-27).

Economics

  1. “Personal income and outlays, January 2024” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2024-02-29).
  2. “For the Fed, January PCE inflation is a setback, but not a game changer” by Nick Timiraos (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-29).

Education

  1. “America’s elite universities are bloated, complacent and illiberal” (The Economist, 2024-03-04).
  2. “How broken is academia?” by Jesse Adams (Persuasion, 2024-03-01).
  3. “Improving mental health through independent play” by Jill Andereson (Harvard Graduate School of Education > Harvard EdCast, 2024-02-23). A conversation with Peter Gray. 28m audio recording with transcript.

Health, medicine, and wellness

  1. “Coleen Murphy: The science of aging and longevity” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-03-03). 45m audio recording with transcript.
  2. “When therapy makes things worse” by Abigail Shrier (Quillette, 2024-02-29).
  3. “Long covid and cognitive deficits” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-02-28).
  4. “Understanding pathological narcissim” by Claudia Romano (Harvard Giffin GSAS News, 2024-02-21). Ellen Finch, PhD candidate in psychology, gives a quick overview of some of her research.

Law

  1. “Full steam ahead for Donald Trump after Supreme Court ruling” (The Economist, 2024-03-04).

Politics

  1. “Fact sheet: President Biden announces new actions to lower costs for Americans by fighting corporate rip-offs” (US White House, 2024-03-05).
  2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times > The Morning, 2024-03-05). Subtitled “We’re covering Big Tech…”.
  3. “All politics is now media criticism” by John Halpin (Persuasion, 2024-03-04).
  4. “Moderate Republicans continue to betray their principles” by Berny Belvedere (Persuasion, 2024-02-28).
  5. “Why is the GOP sticking with Trump?” by Adam Garfinkle (Quillette, 2024-02-24).

Society

  1. “Is The New York Times’ newsroom just a bunch of Ivy Leaguers? (Kinda, sorta.)” by Joshua Benton (Nieman Lab, Harvard University, 2024-02-28).
  2. “‘Harvard thinking’: Our democracy problem” by Samantha Laine Perfas (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-02-28). 33m audio recording with transcript.

Technology

  1. “Red Sea conflict threatens key Internet cables” by Drew FitzGerald (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-02).
  2. “Why do Nvidia’s chips dominate the AI market?” (The Economist, 2024-02-27).
  3. “Could AMD break Nvidia’s chokehold on chips?” (The Economist, 2024-01-31).

Other

  1. “The morning” by Melissa Kirsch (The New York Times, 2024-03-02). Subtitled, “We know that happiness is to be found in taking our time and being present. How can we slow down and stop rushing our way through life?”
  2. “Why small developers are getting squeezed out of the housing market” by Coby Lefkowitz (Noahpinion, 2024-03-02).
  3. “Greeks and Jews: Two diaspora peoples” by Katherine Kelaidis (Quillette, 2024-03-01).
  4. “The NYT misrepresents the history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict” by Benny Morris (Quillette, 2024-02-27).
  5. “I trust you to do this” by Lory Hough (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2024-02-26).
  6. “The gospel of wealth according to Marc Benioff” by Chris Colin (WIRED, 2019-12-11).
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27 February 2024

Read : 2024-02-27

Articles for reading

  1. “What do we do with our loneliness?” by Samantha Laine Perfas (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-02-14). 27m audio recording with transcript.

Articles for reference

Arts

  1. “Hollywood bets on a future of quick clips and tiny screens” by Adam Rogers (WIRED, 2020-01-08).

Athletics

  1. “The distance traveled: Swimming trio leads Owl distance squad” by Daniel Hansen (Rice Owls, 2024-02-21).
  2. “5 lessons on life from the greatest sporting event” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-02-14).

Books

  1. “How the luxury beliefs of an educated elite erode society” by Rob Henderson (The Times, 2024-02-23).
  2. “What shocked me about the culture at Yale” by Rob Henderson (Persuasion, 2024-02-21). An excerpt from Rob Henderson’s book “Troubled”.
  3. “Is everything you assumed about the Middle Ages wrong?” (The Economist, 2024-02-21). Book review of “Medieval horizons”, by Ian Mortimer.
  4. “We’ve come a long way” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-02-18).
  5. “2054, part I: Death of a president” by Maria Streshinsky (WIRED, 2024-02-17). On the novel “2054”, by Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis.
  6. “Chaos at the end of history” by Matt Johnson (Quillette, 2024-02-12). A review of “The end of history and the last man” (1989) by Francis Fukuyama.

Business and investing

  1. “Right or wrong?” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-27). Zweig argues the better question is, “Why were you right or wrong?” That is, were you right or wrong (as measured) for the right or wrong reasons (as empirically or logically argued)?
  2. “Generative AI skills bring nearly 50% salary bump: Indeed” by Roberto Torres (CIO Dive, 2024-02-21).
  3. “Data show the economy is booming. Wall Street thinks otherwise” by Sam Goldfarb (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-20).
  4. “Cisco to lay off more than 4k in restructuring” by Roberto Torres (CIO Dive, 2024-02-15).

Cybersecurity

  1. “NIST releases version 2.0 of landmark Cybersecurity Framework” (US National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2024-02-26).
  2. “Cloud intrusions spiked 75% in 2023, CrowdStrike says” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-02-23).
  3. “Back to the building blocks: A path toward secure and measurable software” (US Office of the National Cyber Director, via US White House, 2024-02).
  4. “The Mirai confessions: Three young hackers who built a Web-killing monster finally tell their story” by Andy Greenberg (WIRED, 2023-11-14).

Economics

  1. “Do not expect America’s interest rates to fall just yet” (The Economist, 2024-02-22).
  2. “Producer price indices—January 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-02-16).

Education

  1. “Institutional neutrality in a polarized world: What should Harvard and higher ed do?” (2024-03-05). Registration, in person or online, for a panel on 2024-03-05 featuring Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Tom Ginsburg, Janet Halley, and Robert C. Post.
  2. “Why Americans love to hate Harvard” by Derek Bok (Harvard Magazine, 2024-03).
  3. “Larry Summers on what went wrong on campus” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-02-24).
  4. “AWS expands free AI training course catalog” by Lindsey Wilkinson (CIO Dive, 2024-02-16).

Health, medicine, and wellness

  1. “The art and science of happiness” (Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics Forum, 2024-02-26). Featuring Arthur Brooks.
  2. “Does drinking water before meals really help you lose weight?” by Robert H. Shmerling (Harvard Health Publishing, 2024-02-20).
  3. “What do we do with our loneliness?” by Samantha Laine Perfas (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-02-14). 27m audio recording with transcript.
  4. “Confronting the dangers of ultra-processed food” (The Economist, 2023-07-24).
  5. “Mortician breaks down dead body scenes from movies & TV” (WIRED, 2021-12-02). 28m video recording.

Law

  1. “Four more prestigious colleges to settle price-fixing suit for $166 million” by Melissa Korn (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-24).
  2. “Two ideas of free speech duel at America’s Supreme Court” (The Economist, 2024-02-23).
  3. “Compelling speech” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2024-02-21). On free speech and social media.

Mathematics

  1. “The deep math of tiling” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2024-02-26).
  2. “Never-repeating tiles can safeguard quantum information” by Ben Brubaker (Quanta Magazine, 2024-02-23).
  3. “Unfolding the mysteries of polygonal billiards” by David S. Richeson (Quanta Magazine, 2024-02-15).

Navalny, Alexei

  1. “Alexei Navalny 1976–2024” by John Lloyd (Quillette, 2024-02-23).
  2. “What Navalny’s death means for Russia, Putin and the world” (The Economist, 2024-02-16).

Politics

  1. “Mexico’s ‘hugs, not bullets’ crime policy spreads grief, murder and extortion” by Juan Montes (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-25).
  2. “Trump tightens hold on GOP, crowding out even popular rivals” by Aaron Zitner, Jack Gillum (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-25).
  3. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-02-20). Subtitled, “We’re covering the latest battleground in Gaza…”.
  4. “The moral blindness of Putin’s apologists on the right” by Gerard Baker (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-19).
  5. “The US–China chip war is escalating” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2024-02-17).
  6. “The growing peril of national conservatism” (The Economist, 2024-02-15).
  7. “Pushing back against China—without igniting war” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-02-14).
  8. “The real message of Vladimir Putin’s chat with Tucker Carlson” (The Economist, 2024-02-09).
  9. “A self-enforcing protocol to solve gerrymandering” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2024-02-02).

Science

  1. “Richard Charles Lewontin, 92” by Andrew Berry, Hopi Hoekstra, John Wakeley, Daniel L. Hartl (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-02-09).

Society

  1. “New technologies, new totalitarians” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-02-27).
  2. “Framing is everything” by Daniel Miessler (Unsupervised Learning, 2024-02-24).
  3. “We are entering an age of ultra-processed information” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-02-21).
  4. “Equality is not immunity” by George Case (Quillette, 2024-02-20).
  5. “The morning” by Christine Chung (The New York Times, 2024-02-18). Subtitled, “My colleague Christine Chung…has a new story about a technological shift underway at America’s airports.”

Technology

  1. “How to make AI ‘forget’ all the private data it shouldn’t have” by Rachel Layne (Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 2024-02-22).
  2. “Chatbots and human conversation” by Albert Fox Cahn, Bruce Schneier (The Atlantic, via Schneier on Security, 2024-01-26).
  3. “Quantum computing’s hard, cold reality check” by Edd Gent (IEEE Spectrum, 2023-12-22).

Other

  1. “Nvidia, AI and U.S. innovation” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-22).
  2. “Intersectionality’s cosmic inquisitor” by Jonathan Kay (Quillette, 2024-02-15). On Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.
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13 February 2024

Read : 2024-02-13

Articles for reference

Arts

  1. “Volume up! How to get thicker hair” by Tish Weinstock, Lauren Murdoch-Smith (Vogue, 2024-02-06).

Athletics

  1. “Volleyball adds Jon Wong as assistant coach” by Daniel Hansen (Rice Owls, 2024-02-12).

Business and investing

  1. “America’s economy is booming. So why are bosses worried?” (The Economist, 2024-02-04).
  2. “Tech job postings, sector hiring rebound in January” by Roberto Torres (CIO Dive, 2024-02-02).

Cybersecurity

  1. “CISA, FBI confirm critical infrastructure intrusions by China-linked hackers” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-02-07).
  2. “2024 JCDC priorities” (US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, ????).

Economics

  1. “Consumer price index—January 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-02-13).
  2. “The danger of forgetting the 2023 banking crisis” by Raghuram G. Rajan, Viral V. Acharya (Project Syndicate, 2024-02-08).
  3. “What is the Fed thinking?” by J. Bradford DeLong (Project Syndicate, 2024-02-05).
  4. “The next phase of our inflation journey” by Michael Spence (Project Syndicate, 2024-02-02).

Education

  1. “A comeback for merit in college admissions” by Seth Moskowitz (Persuasion, 2024-02-09).
  2. “The SAT is a pathway to more college diversity, not less” by Rob Henderson (The Boston Globe, 2024-02-06).
  3. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-02-06). Subtitled, “We’re covering a policy change by Dartmouth College…”.
  4. “Universities are failing to boost economic growth” (The Economist, 2024-02-05).

Medicine

  1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-02-13). Subtitled, “We’re covering U.S. policy on Covid shots for children…”.
  2. “Jim Collins: Discovery of the first new structural class of antibiotics in decades, using A.I.” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-02-13). 29m audio recording with full transcript.

Politics

  1. “The morning” by Michael Crowley (The New York Times, 2024-02-08). Subtitled, “With the Gaza war testing the U.S.–Israel relationship, my colleague Michael Crowley uses today’s newsletter to explain why each partner sees the next phase so differently.”
  2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-02-07). Subtitled, “We’re covering Republicans and the border bill…”.

Science and technology

  1. “Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future” (The Economist, 2024-02-08).
    [I]t embodies big trends in war: a shift towards small, cheap and disposable weapons; the increasing use of consumer technology; and the drift towards autonomy in battle. Because of these trends, drone technology will spread rapidly from armies to militias, terrorists and criminals.
  2. “How cheap drones are transforming warfare in Ukraine” (The Economist, 2024-02-05).

Society

  1. “A bunch of handy charts about climate change” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-02-13).
  2. “America’s lost boys and me” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-02-11).
  3. “The Grand Canyon-sized chasm between elites and ordinary Americans” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-02-04).

Other

  1. “Isaiah Berlin and the tragedy of pluralism” by Damon Linker (Persuasion, 2024-02-07).
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3 February 2024

Read : 2024-02-03

Articles for reading

  1. “Martin Luther King’s understanding of racism” by John R. Wood, Jr. (Quillette, 2024-01-15).

Articles for reference

Arts

  1. “Authors are collaborating with AI—and each other” (The Economist, 2024-02-01).
  2. “What’s it like to watch ‘Maestro’ as Leonard Berstein’s daughter? ‘Surreal.’” by Anna Lamb (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-01-24).

Athletics

  1. “Pilates or yoga: Which workout is better?” by Audrey Noble (Vogue, 2024-01-19). Neither! (Both?) Just be consistent.

Cybersecurity

  1. “Cloudflare hit by follow-on attack from previous Okta breach” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-02-02).
  2. “U.S. government disrupts botnet People’s Republic of China used to conceal hacking of critical infrastructure” (US Department of Justice, 2024-01-31).
  3. “Midnight Blizzard attack seen as another sign of Microsoft falling short on security” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-01-26).

Economics

  1. “The employment situation—January 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-02-02). Monthly net change in nonfarm payroll employment, seasonally adjusted (note that the BLS had an even larger revision, in level and in percent, in June 2023, from 105k to 240k):
    • Jan 2024: +353k (preliminary)
    • Dec 2023: +333k (revised up 117k from +216)
    • Nov 2023: +182k (revised up 9k from +173k)
  2. “Don’t count on a soft landing for the global economy” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2024-02-02).
  3. “Fed delivers good news overall on economy” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-02-01).
  4. “Transcript of Chair Powell’s press conference” (US Federal Reserve, 2024-01-31).
  5. “ADP national employment report: January 2024” (ADP Research Institute, 2024-01-31). “Private sector employment increased by 107,000 jobs in January and annual pay was up 5.2% year-over-year…”.
  6. “Job openings and labor turnover—December 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-01-30).
  7. “US growth keeps beating expectations” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2024-01-29).
  8. “Personal income and outlays, December 2023” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2024-01-26).
  9. “The morning” by German Lopez (The New York Times, 2024-01-23). Subtitled, “We’re covering Americans’ gloomy views of the economy…”.
  10. “Union members—2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-01-23).

Education

  1. “The future of academic freedom” by Jeannie Suk Gersen (The New Yorker, 2024-01-27).

Health and medicine

  1. “Katalin Karikó: The unimaginable, obstacle-laden, multi-decade journey to discover the mRNA platform and win the 2023 Nobel Prize” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-02-02).
  2. “Jonathan Howard, author of We want them infected” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-01-25). 44m audio recording with transcript.
  3. “How to sleep better: The 6 best strategies, according to the experts” by Lauren Valenti, Audrey Noble (Vogue, 2024-01-04). My (unsolicited) advice: Ignore the in-article product pitches and focus on the content.

Immigration : US

  1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-02-01). Subtitled, “We’re covering Mexico’s immigration crackdown…”.
  2. “America’s border crisis in ten charts” (The Economist, 2024-01-24).
  3. “Immigration roars back in headlines. Time finally come for reforms?” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-01-02).

Investing

  1. “Amazon and Meta—nothing artificial about these results” by Dan Gallagher (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-02).
  2. “Where the jobs are now…but may not be later” by James Freeman (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-01).
  3. “The most important man in finance you’ve never heard of” by Andrew Duehren (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-01-27).
  4. “Xi Jinping stars as King Canute with Chinese stocks” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-01-23).
  5. “After a sugar high of free money, these billion-dollar technologies need a nap” by Christopher Mims (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-01-19).

Mathematics

  1. “What makes for ‘good’ mathematics?” by Steven Strogatz (Quanta Magazine, 2024-02-01). An interview with Terence Tao. 37m audio recording with full transcript.
  2. “How to build an origami computer” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2024-01-30). Featuring mathematicians Inna Zakharevich, Thomas Hull, and Erik Demaine.

Politics

  1. “Germany is being served up on a platter to the far right” by Quico Toro, Guido Núñez-Mujica (Persuasion, 2024-02-02).
  2. “Biden should run on a message of abundance” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-02-01).
  3. “The morning” by Alissa J. Rubin (The New York Times, 2024-01-30). Subtitled, “Iran is at the center of the current turmoil in the Middle East.”
  4. “Interview: Sarah C. Paine” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-01-30).
  5. “Why men are drifting to the far right” by Rachel Kleinfeld (Persuasion, 2024-01-29).
  6. “A guide for the politically homeless” by Sam Kahn (Persuasion, 2024-01-22).
  7. “The world is in the grip of a manufacturing delusion” (The Economist, 2023-07-13).

Science and technology

  1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-02-02). On Facebook at 20 years old.
  2. “In a ‘dark dimension,’ physicists search for the universe’s missing matter” by Steve Nadis (Quanta Magazine, 2024-02-01).
  3. “Sex differences in the brain and the mind” by David C. Geary (Quillette, 2024-01-18).
  4. “Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable” (The Economist, 2024-01-17).
  5. “The most important machine that was never built” by Sheon Han (Quanta Magazine, 2023-05-03). On Alan Turing and the Turing machine.

Society : Dialog

  1. “Want better democracy? Let’s talk” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-01-26).
  2. “How the Greeks handled polarization” by Claudia Romano (Harvard GSAS, 2024-01-24). A 1m video overview of Davide Napoli’s PhD dissertation.
  3. “Opening conversation on more, better discourse” (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-01-22).
  4. “Why I left Harvard” by Carole Hooven (The Free Press, 2024-01-16).

Society

  1. “The morning” by German Lopez (The New York Times, 2024-01-31). Subtitled, “We’re covering San Francisco’s addiction crisis…”.
  2. “Robots are no substitute for a social life” by Eve Herold (Persuasion, 2024-01-31).
  3. “Sex, drugs, and family conflict appeals more to elites than to ordinary moviegoers” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-01-28).
  4. “America’s families are not okay” by Ann Bauer (Persuasion, 2024-01-26).
  5. “Why it’s so hard to end homelessness in America” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-01-24).
  6. “Commentary review, scholarships, journalists” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-01-23).
  7. “Being poor doesn’t have the same effect as living in chaos” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-01-21).
  8. “The California Forever project is a great idea” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-01-20).
  9. “Albert Wu on Taiwan’s past, present and future” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-01-20). 51m audio recording with transcript.

Other

  1. “Then & now: Langdell Hall” by Mik Hamilton, Lesley Shoenfeld (Harvard Law Today, 2024-01-23).
  2. “Martin Luther King’s understanding of racism” by John R. Wood, Jr. (Quillette, 2024-01-15).
  3. “Radical moderate: The struggle for Martin Luther King’s legacy” by Robert Showah (Quillette, 2018-04-27).
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18 January 2024

Read : 2024-01-18

Articles for reading

  1. “SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker” by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica, 2023-12-19).

Articles for reference

Cybersecurity

  1. “SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker” by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica, 2023-12-19).

Economics

  1. “Is U.S. industrial policy learning from its mistakes?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-01-17).
  2. “How strong is India’s economy under Narendra Modi?” (The Economist, 2024-01-15).

Investing

  1. “All we knew in 2022” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-01-17).

Law

  1. “Britain’s Post Office scandal and the rule of law” by Robert Skidelsky (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-18).
  2. “The morning” by Adam Liptak (The New York Times, 2024-01-18). Subtitled, “The Supreme Court held oral arguments yesterday on one of the biggest cases of the current term…”.
  3. “Supreme Court hears pivotal regulatory challenge with sweeping climate implications” (The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University, 2024-01-12).

Medicine

  1. “An exhilarating conversation with Azeem Azhar on medical A.I., science of aging, genome editing and the GLP-1 drugs” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-01-18).

Politics

  1. “Cyber Safety Review Board needs stronger authorities, more independence, experts say” by Derek B. Johnson (Cyberscroop, 2024-01-17).
  2. “Tax law expert Keith Fogg on the funding and future of the IRS” by Jeff Neal (Harvard Law Today, 2024-01-16).

Science and technology

  1. “CEOs expect job cuts—and some gains—because of generate AI” by Roberto Torres (CIO Dive, 2024-01-17).

Other

  1. “The power and peril of caring deeply” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-01-17).
  2. “Overseer candidates’ 2024 Harvard priorities” by John S. Rosenberg (Harvard Magazine, 2024-01-12).
  3. “What your friendships need is a good fight” by Elizabeth Bernstein (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-01-09). Before applying the clickbait advice in the article’s title, consider reading the article and judging the advice for yourself.
  4. “How often should you wash your bath towel?” by Katie McCallum (Houston Methodist, 2023-12-28). This article recommends washing your bath towel every three days in general. It recommends washing towels used for cleaning (versus drying) more frequently.
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16 January 2024

Read : 2024-01-16

Articles for reading

  1. “Parentheses, brackets, and braces” (Practical Typography, ????). A clear statement of which is which—and bonus clarification on when (not) to adjust them for italics, etc. (How can you not love an article that ends with the line, “In situations where you have a roman character next to a bold or italic character, the only cure is vigilance.”)
  2. “Risk-aversion is killing romance” by Freya India (2024-01-02).

Articles for reference

Arts

  1. “The 18 best dressed stars at the 2024 Emmy awards” by Christian Allaire (Vogue, 2024-01-15).
  2. “Critics Choice Awards 2024: Fasion—Live from the red carpet” by Hannah Jackson (Vogue, 2024-01-15).

Books

  1. “Book review: Chaotic childhoods” by Stephanos Bibas (The University of Chicago Law Review, ????). A review of “Troubled”, by Rob Henderson.

Cybersecurity

  1. “Progress Software’s MOVEit meltdown: uncovering the fallout” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-01-16).
  2. “Improving Shor’s algorithm” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2024-01-05).
  3. “Cryptography after the aliens land” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2018-09).

Economics

  1. “America’s new business boom” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2024-01-14).
  2. “Producer price indexes—December 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-01-12).
  3. “Consumer price index—December 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-01-11).
  4. “Nation’s top economists are short-term happy, long-term glum” by Gabriel T. Rubin (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-01-07).
  5. “Is the Chinese miracle over?” by Yao Yang (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-04).
  6. “Has China’s economy peaked?” by Zhang Jun (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-03).
  7. “The global economy is not out of the woods” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-03).

Education

  1. “Alumni committee announces candidates for Harvard board positions” (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-01-12).
  2. “Is Harvard Business School too woke?” (The Economist, 2024-01-10).
  3. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-01-08). Subtitled, “We’re covering the debate over standardized tests in college admissions…”.
  4. “The misguided war on the SAT” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-01-07).
  5. “How much of modern academia is waste?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-01-07). Paywalled.

Law

  1. “The case for the Supreme Court to overturn Chevron deference” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-01-15).

Mathematics

  1. “The mathematician who finds the poetry in math and the math in poetry” by Leila Sloman (Quanta Magazine, 2024-01-12). On Sarah Hart.
  2. “Chapter eleven: If–then arguments” by David Carl Wilson (University of Minnesota, ????).

Medicine

  1. “SOTP: State-of-the-pandemic” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-01-05).

Politics

  1. “The morning” by Nate Cohn (The New York Times, 2024-01-16). Subtitled, “We’re covering the Republican nomination campaign…”.
  2. “The next battle in higher ed may strike at its soul: scholarship” by Anemona Hartocollis (The New York Times, 2024-01-14).
  3. “The morning” by David Leonhardt, Ian Prasad Philbrick (The New York Times, 2024-01-12). Subtitled, “We’re covering tomorrow’s election in Taiwan…”.
  4. “Why is America’s Congress being briefed on UFOs?” (The Economist, 2024-01-11).
  5. “What killed US–China engagement?” by Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-04).

Society

  1. “What it takes to build democratic institutions” by Daron Acemoglu (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-16).
  2. “Rob Henderson on foster care, social class and the new American elite” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-01-13). 1h38m audio recording with full transcript.
  3. “Lights out in America” by John Lloyd (Quillette, 2024-01-05). Subtitled, “The cowardice at America’s most important liberal publications is damaging democracy.” Paywalled.
  4. “How to win the culture war” (The Economist, 2024-01-04). On Dave Chappelle’s “The dreamer”.
  5. “Clarifying America’s great inequality debate” by Daron Acemoglu (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-03).
  6. “Thorstein Veblen’s theory of the leisure class—a status update” by Rob Henderson (Quillette, 2019-11-16).

Other

  1. “Parentheses, brackets, and braces” (Practical Typography, ????).
  2. “Choosing well in a world of ultra-processed everything” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-01-09).
  3. “Lessons I learned the hard way” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-01-07).
  4. “Western Europe’s forgotten nightmare” by Jonathan Kay (Quillette, 2024-01-06). On Rachel Chrastil’s book “Bismarck’s war: The Franco-Prussian war and the making of modern Europe”. Paywalled.
  5. “Elon Musk has used illegal drugs, worrying leaders at Tesla and SpaceX” by Emily Glazer, Kirsten Grind (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-01-06).
  6. “Lessons I learned the hard way” by Rob Henderson (The Free Press, 2023-12-31).
  7. “Risk-aversion is killing romance” by Freya India (2024-01-02).
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5 January 2024

Read : 2024-01-05

Articles for reading

  1. “10 new ideas to help you perform your best” by Clay Skipper (The Growth Equation, 2024-01-04).

Articles for reference

Cybersecurity

  1. “For cyber companies, economic turbulence in 2023 sets up uncertain 2024” by Catherine Stupp, James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-01-03).
  2. “A ‘recipe for disaster’: Insiders warned Meta’s privacy push would shield child predators” by Jeff Horwitz, Katherine Blunt (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-22).
  3. “Google fixes 8th Chrome zero-day exploited in attacks this year” by Sergiu Gatlan (Bleeping Computer, 2023-12-20).
  4. “An iPhone thief explains how he steals your passcode and bank account” by Joanna Stern (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-20).

Economics

  1. “The employment situation—December 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-01-05). The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for December 2023 is reported at +216k. The totals for October 2023 and November 2023 were both revised down, by 45k and 26k (30% and 13% of the previously reported totals), respectively.
  2. “Has America really escaped inflation?” (The Economist, 2024-01-03).
  3. “ADP national employment report—December 2023” (ADP, 2024-01-04).
  4. “Job openings and labor turnover—November 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-01-03).
  5. “The 2024 economic outlook: Growing confidence” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-12-28).
  6. “2023 economic year-in-review” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-12-23).
  7. “Personal income and outlays, November 2023” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2023-12-22).

Education : Harvard

  1. “What just happened at Harvard is bigger than me” by Claudine Gay (The New York Times, 2024-01-03).
  2. “Harvard president resigns after mounting plagiarism accusations” by Jennifer Schuessler, Anemona Hartocollis, Michael Levenson, Alan Blinder (The New York Times, 2024-01-03).
  3. “The decline and fall of Harvard’s president” (The Economist, 2024-01-03).
  4. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-01-03). Subtitled, “We’re covering the resignation of Harvard’s president…”.
  5. “Personal news” by Claudine Gay (Harvard University, 2024-01-02).
  6. “Statement from the Harvard Corporation: President Gay” by The Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard University, 2024-01-02).
  7. “Harvard President Claudine Gay steps down; Provost Alan Garber to serve as interim leader” (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-01-02).
  8. “Behind the campaign to take down Harvard’s Claudine Gay” by Douglas Belkin, Arian Campo-Flores (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-29).
  9. “What did Wall Street get right about markets this year? Not much” by Gunjan Banerji (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-29).

Health and medicine

  1. “Tony Wyss-Coray: The science of aging” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-12-26). 32m audio recording with full transcript.

Investing

  1. “Best value stocks for 2024” by Chris Taylor (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-17).
  2. “How the young should invest” (The Economist, 2023-11-16).

Politics

  1. “Taiwan’s foreign minister on what’s at stake in the coming election” by Joseph Wu (The Economist, 2024-01-03).
  2. “Welcome to the era of AI nationalism” (The Economist, 2024-01-01).

Science and technology

  1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-01-05). On AI hallucinations.

Society

  1. “Liberalism’s forever crisis” by Jan-Werner Mueller (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-05).
  2. “10 trends to watch in 2024” by Rachel Layne (Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 2024-01-02).
  3. “2024 outlook: Rate cuts and the influencer apocalypse” by kyla scanlon (Kyla’s Newsletter, 2024-01-02).
  4. “The morning” by David Leonhardt, Lyna Bentahar (The New York Times, 2023-12-22). Subtitled “We’re covering the rebirth of local journalism…”. The newsletter provides two quotes from journalists leading local-news initiatives who claim “the demise of local news wouldn’t cost very much money to reverse” (because—thankfully?!—”[m]ost journalists don’t make a lot of money”) and “real progress is underway”, but it provides no evidence (that I saw). Is this reporting on what is, or what the authors hope to be? on fact, or on ideology? In any case, I applaud The New York Times for giving local journalists a spotlight and a platform. (Keen coverage of local news is how I hope society to be.)
  5. “Games people play” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2022-11-13). On the book “Games people play”, by Eric Berne. Part one of three. (The later two posts are currently paywalled.)

Other

  1. “10 new ideas to help you perform your best” by Clay Skipper (The Growth Equation, 2024-01-04).
  2. “Evolve Move Play, sociopaths, romantic affairs” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-01-04).
  3. “It hurts as much as it’s worth” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2023-12-31).
  4. “Quillette editors’ choice 2023” by Zoe Booth (Quillette, 2023-12-22).
  5. “How to start a healthy habit (and keep it)” by Christina Pérez (Vogue, 2023-12-02).
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21 December 2023

Read : 2023-12-21

Articles for reading

  1. “When we say ‘security’, what do we mean?” by Kelly Shortridge (kellyshortridge.com, 2023-10-26).
  2. “In defense of performance: A manifesto” by Steve Magness, Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, ????).

Articles for reference

Business

  1. “These Tesla wannabes are running out of road” by Amrith Ramkumar, Shane Shifflett (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-19).

Cybersecurity

  1. “CISA seeks comment on secure by design principles to boost global software security” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-12-21).
  2. “Crypto-gram” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2023-12-15).
  3. “Cybersecurity isn’t special” by Kelly Shortridge (kellyshortridge.com, 2023-12-13).
  4. “AI and mass spying” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2023-12-05). Originally published on Slate.
  5. “AI and trust” by Bruce Schneier (Belfer Center, 2023-11-27).
  6. “CISA urges use of memory safe code in software development” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-09-22).
  7. “FBI guidance to victims of cyber incidents on SEC reporting requirements” (US Federal Bureau of Investigation, ????). Portal to webpages with the SEC rule, FBI notice policy, DOJ memo, and information about how to request a delay in incident reporting (including information required in each request).
  8. “When we say ‘security’, what do we mean?” by Kelly Shortridge (kellyshortridge.com, 2023-10-26).
  9. “‘Quantum’ doesn’t solve anything for cybersecurity” by Kelly Shortridge (kellyshortridge.com, 2023-07-05).

Economics

  1. “Real average weekly earnings up 0.5 percent from November 2022 to November 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-12-21).
  2. “How did the U.S. achieve a soft landing?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-12-20).
  3. “Fed official says rate cuts could be needed next year to prevent overtightening” by Nick Timiraos (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-18). My summary: San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly hints that the Fed may have to cut rates…or keep rates higher for longer. It depends.
  4. “Buy now, pay later keeps people spending—without credit agencies knowing” by Angel Au-Yeung (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-17).
  5. “Markets cheer Fed outlook, but the rally complicates it” by Eric Wallerstein (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-14).
  6. “The Fed underwrites the recovery” by Greg Ip (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-14).
  7. “Advance monthly sales for retail and food services [November 2023]” (US Census Bureau, 2023-12-14). Note the asterisk in the program: “The 90 percent confidence interval includes zero. There is insufficient statistical evidence to conclude that the actual change is different from zero.” If you’re into this kind of thing, then consider contacting the Census Bureau and asking them to please include error bars on their bar charts. (The Bureau conveniently provides an e-mail address and phone number in the right column of this release!)

Education

  1. “Harvard is big business at its worst” by Allysia Finley (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-17).
  2. “University presidents under fire” by Jeannie Suk Gersen (The New Yorker, 2023-12-17).
  3. “The cultural power of report cards” by Jill Anderson (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2023-12-01). Summary, 18m audio recording, and full transcript.

Health and medicine

  1. “A covid update” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-12-16).
  2. “How to stop overeating: 10 tips to avoid eating too much” by Katie McCallum (Houston Methodist, 2022-01-26).

Mathematics

  1. “Celebrated cryptography algorithm gets an upgrade” by Madison Goldberg (Quanta Magazine, 2023-12-14). On recent efficiency gains for LLL-type algorithms.

Politics

  1. “Where does the modern state come from?” (The Economist, 2023-12-20).
  2. “The myth of the unprecedented” by Stephen S. Roach (Project Syndicate, 2023-12-21).
  3. “The most important developments of 2023” by Michael J. Boskin (Project Syndicate, 2023-12-21).
  4. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-12-20). Subtitled, “We’re covering the strategic goals of both Hamas and Israel…”.
  5. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-12-18). Subtitled, “We’re covering the debate over immigration policy in Congress…”.
  6. “Two experts look back for the future of American conservatism” by Daniel Harsha (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-12-14).
  7. “The morning” by Jodi Kantor (The New York Times, 2023-12-15). Subtitled, “In today’s newsletter, we go behind the scenes of the Supreme Court.”

Science and technology

  1. “ChatGPT’s ‘winter break’ is the latest sign of model drifts” by Lindsey Wilkinson (CIO Dive, 2023-12-20).
  2. “How the chips that power AI work” (The Wall Street Journal : The Tech Behind, 2023-12-18).
  3. “We need to focus more on the social effects of AI, says Nicholas Christakis” by Nicholas Christakis (The Economist, 2023-12-15).
  4. “Cars that change colors—and other new auto tech on the way” by Brett Berk (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-13).
  5. “The TED A.I. conference” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-12-13).
  6. “Prompt engineering” (OpenAI, ????).

Society

  1. “$15 billion in five years: What data tells us about MacKenzie Scott’s philanthropy” by Matthew Lee, Brian Trelstad, Ethan Tran (Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 2023-12-19).
  2. “Purposelessness—not social media—is causing our kids’ depression” by Daniel Miessler (Unsupervised Learning, 2023-12-15).
  3. “Finding right mix on campus speech policies” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-12-14).
  4. “When the New York Times lost its way” by James Bennet (The Economist, 2023-12-14). Note: According to The Economist, “James Bennet is The Economist’s Lexington columnist” and “a former editorial-page editor of the New York Times”.
  5. “How American journalism lets down readers and voters” (The Economist, 2023-12-14).
  6. “American journalism sounds much more Democratic than Republican” (The Economist, 2023-12-14).
  7. “Conformity: The power of social influences—A review” by Vincent Harinam, Rob Henderson (Quillette, 2019-06-18).

Other

  1. “The shortfalls of willpower” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-12-21).
  2. “Doing well by doing good? One industry’s struggle to balance values and profits” by Scott Van Voorhis (Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 2023-12-11).
  3. “How can US Navy carriers that were built 3-4 decades ago be better than Chinese Navy carriers built just 2-3 years ago?” by Jacques Malan, John Currier (Quora, ????).
  4. “In defense of performance: A manifesto” by Steve Magness, Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, ????).
  5. “BeFamily” (befamily.com). Homepage for “your family’s smart assistant”.
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