Read : 2024-06-06

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “NYC Ballet’s Mira Nadon on George Balanchine’s Rubies: Anatomy of a dance” by nycballet (YouTube, 2023-09-06).
2. “Why dancers love performing Balanchine’s ‘Jewels’” by Royal Opera House (YouTube, 2017-04-12).

Books

1. “Imposing order on grief” by Iona Italia (Quillette, 2024-05-22). A review of Rob Henderson’s book “Troubled”.

Business and investing

1. “Should you buy expensive stocks?” (The Economist, 2024-06-05).
2. “Bit Tech companies unplug stock market from reality” by James Mackintosh (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-04).
3. “How to write the perfect CV” (The Economist, 2024-05-30).
4. “When to sell your stocks” (The Economist, 2024-05-30).
5. “AI skills bring higher pay, more interview offers, study says” by Carolyn Crist (CIO Dive, 2024-05-24).
6. “ISC2 reveals global ISC2 certification salaries” (ISC2, 2024-05-07). Note that regional aggregation masks within-region differences in cost of living.
7. “Meme stocks are a thing—again” by Hannah Miao, Gunjan Banerji (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-08-05).

Cybersecurity

1. “CVE exploits, stolen credentials fueled ransomware surge in 2023” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-06-04).
2. “China is ‘prepositioning’ for future cyberattacks—and the new NSA chief is worried” by Niharika Mandhana, Gordon Fairclough (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-03).
3. “‘She hooked me’: How an online scam cost a senior citizen his life’s savings” by Felix Solomon (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-02).
4. “Detecting and preventing unauthorized user access” by Brad Jones (Snowflake, 2024-06-02).
5. “NIST has a plan to clear the vulnerability analysis backlog” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-05-31). That plan is: Hire a government contractor.
6. “Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span” by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica, 2024-05-30).
7. “Critical CVEs are going under-analyzed as NIST falls behind” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-05-28).
8. “Hackers created rogue VMs to evade detection in recent MITRE cyber attack” by Newsroom (The Hacker News, 2024-05-24).
9. “CVE exploitation nearly tripled in 2023, Verizon finds” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-05-01).

Economics

1. “ADP national employment report—May 2024” (ADP Research Institute, 2024-06-05).
2. “Why China’s overcapacity problem is about to get even worse, in seven charts” by Nathaniel Taplin (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-04).
3. “Is America’s economy heading for a consumer crunch?” (The Economist, 2024-06-04).
4. “Job openings and labor turnover—April 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-06-04).
5. “Personal income and outlays, April 2024” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2024-05-31).

Education

1. “Google invests $15M to train new cyber pros” by Sam Sabin (Axios, 2024-06-04).
2. “Next up for House renewal: Eliot” by Eileen O’Grady (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-30).
3. “Deep reading will save your soul” by William Deresiewicz (Persuasion, 2024-05-29).
4. “When should Harvard speak out?” by Jessica McCann (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-28). An interview with Alison Simmons and Noah Feldman of the Harvard Institutional Voice Working Group.
5. “Institutional voice” by Alan M. Garber et al. (Harvard : Office of the President, 2024-05-28).

Health, medicine, and wellness

1. “Tom Cech: RNA takes center stage” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-06-05). 49m audio recording with transcript; link to video recording.
2. “Why the pandemic probably started in a lab, in 5 key points” by Alina Chan (The New York Times, 2024-06-03).
3. “Long covid at 3 years” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-05-30).
4. “Venki Ramakrishnan: The new science of aging” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-05-28). 50 m audio recording with transcript.

Law

1. “The Supreme Court is about to decide the future of free speech” by Nadine Strossen (Persuasion, 2024-06-04).

Politics : BGP

1. “FCC vote on tap for rules to secure fundamental component of the internet” by Tim Starks (CyberScoop, 2024-06-04).
2. “FCC wants rules for ‘most important part of the internet you’ve probably never heard of’” by Tim Starks (CyberScoop, 2024-04-24).

Politics : Computer chips

1. “Asia’s chip giants hustle to maintain their edge over the U.S.” by Jiyoung Sohn, Yang Jie (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-05).
2. “The goal for China’s chip giant: Cut out the U.S.” by Yoko Kubota (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-03).
3. “The U.S. gave chip makers billions. Now comes the hard part.” by Asa Fitch (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-02).
4. “The global chips battle, in charts” by Nate Rattner, Jiyoung Sohn (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-02).

Politics : India

1. “The morning” by Alex Travelli (The New York Times, 2024-06-06). Subtitled, “Modi’s choices”.
2. “A triumph for Indian democracy” (The Economist, 2024-06-05).
3. “India’s surprising election results a ‘watershed moment’” by Daniel Harsha (Harvard Kennedy School : Ash Center, 2024-06-04). Q&A with Professor Gautam Nair.

Politics : Mexico

1. “Claudia Sheinbaum has won Mexico’s presidency in a landslide” (The Economist, 2024-06-03).
2. “Mexico’s new president is an enigma” by Quico Toro (Persuasion, 2024-06-03).

Politics : Trump’s NY trial

1. “William Galston on 2024 and Trump’s conviction” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-06-01). 1h29m audio recording with transcript.
2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times 2024-05-31). Subtitled, “We’re covering Trump’s conviction…”.
3. “Donald Trump found guilty on all 34 counts in New York hush-money case” by Corinne Ramey, James Fanelli (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-31).
4. “A guilty verdict for Trump and its consequences for the country” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-30).

Politics : Other

1. “Why no one will save Sudan” by Cameron Hudson (Persuasion, 2024-06-05).
2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-06-05). Subtitled, “The asylum loophole”.
3. “The sad case of Hunter Biden” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-05).
4. “Merrick Garland, three special counsels and a Justice Department under fire” by Sadie Gurman, Aruna Viswanatha (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-04).
5. “Hong Kong smothers dissent ahead of the Tiananmen anniversary” (The Economist, 2024-06-03).
6. “Trump conviction and Biden tapes put new pressure on Mike Johnson” by Katy Stech Farek (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-03).
7. “Israel, Palestine, and the sub-rational” by Michael G. Holzman (Persuasion, 2024-05-31).
8. “Happy fun Cold War 2 update” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-29).
9. “Blacklisted Chinese companies rebrand as American to dodge crackdown” by Heather Somerville (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-29).
10. “How to live in a world where Trump is winning” by Quico Toro (Persuasion, 2024-05-28).
11. “AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board” by Helen Toner, Tasha McCauley (The Economist, 2024-05-26).

Science

1. “Biologists are unfolding life’s molecular shapes” by Yasemin Saplakoglu (Quanta Magazine, 2024-05-28).

Society

1. “How many of our ‘facts’ about society, health, and the economy are fake?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-06-06). Paywalled.
2. “Does curiosity make you read more hard news? How about anxiety?” by Joshua Benton (Nieman Lab, 2024-06-04).
3. “Don’t be a stranger: The power of renewing old friendships” by Rob Henderson (The Boston Globe, 2024-05-29).
4. “Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2021-03-28).

Technology

1. “The AI revolution is already losing steam” by Christopher Mims (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-31).
2. “The Daylight tablet returns computing to its hippie ideals” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-05-31).
3. “Can Elon Musk’s xAI take on OpenAI?” (The Economist, 2024-05-29).
4. “These Internet browsers promise privacy. What does that actually mean?” by Cheryl Winokur Munk (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-28).
5. “Big Tech’s budding AI monopoly” by William P. Barr (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-27).
6. “Don’t believe the biggest myth about heat pumps” by Matt Simon (WIRED, 2024-05-24).
7. “Privacy experts sound the alarm over Microsoft’s latest AI tool” by Samantha Kelly (CNN, 2024-05-22).

Other

1. “The struggle makes the reward” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-06-05).
2. “The best noise-canceling headphones” by Nick Guy, Geoffrey Morrison (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-03).
3. “Take the work seriously. Yourself? Not so much.” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-05-28).
4. “Reflections on Sozhenitsyn’s Harvard address” by Sergiu Klainerman (Quillette, 2020-10-24).

Read : 2024-05-04

Articles for reading

1. “Keeping secrets” by Henry Corrigan-Gibbs (Stanford Magazine, 2014-11/12).
2. “The 214th Columbia University Commencement address” by Richard Hofstadter (Columbia University, 1968-06-04).

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “The paranoid style in Shakespeare denialism” by Oliver Kamm (Quillette, 2024-05-02).
2. “Colleagues, students remember Helen Vendler, a ‘titan’ of poetry criticism” by Eileen O’Grady (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-01).

Athletics

1. “How old is too old to run?” by Anna Lamb (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-04-26).
2. “Longevity and VO2max: Does it actually matter?” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-04-25).

Business and investing

1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-05-03). On Jeff Lawson and “The Onion”.
2. “Hedge funds make billions as India’s options market goes ballistic” (The Economist, 2024-05-02).
3. “Amazon gets more fuel for AI race” by Dan Gallagher (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-01).
4. “Investors are showing AI startups with cash. One problem: They don’t have much of a business” by Berber Jin (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-29).
5. “Less is more: The case for ‘slow productivity’ at work” by Rachel Feintzeig (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-28).
6. “Regulators seize troubled Philadelphia bank, Republic First” by Gina Heeb, Lauren Thomas, Justin Baer (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-26).
7. “How far could America’s stockmarket fall?” (The Economist, 2024-04-25).

Cybersecurity

1. “There’s more than one way to encrypt a secret” by Ben Brubaker (Quanta Magazine, 2024-04-29).
2. “Keeping secrets” by Henry Corrigan-Gibbs (Stanford Magazine, 2014-11/12).

Economics

1. “The employment situtation—April 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-05-03).
2. “America’s reckless borrowing is a danger to its economy—and the world’s” (The Economist, 2024-05-02).
3. “Jerome Powell isn’t too worried about inflation” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-01).
4. “Transcript of Chair Powell’s press conference—May 1, 2024” (US Federal Reserve, 2024-05-01).
5. “ADP National Employment Report” (ADP Research Institute, 2024-05-01).
6. “Japan is wrong to try to prop up the yen” (The Economist, 2024-04-30).
7. “Immigration is surging, with big economic consequences” (The Economist, 2024-04-30).
8. “The end of magical debt thinking” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2024-04-29).
9. “Personal income and outlays, March 2024” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2024-04-26).
10. “Is inflation morally wrong?” (The Economist, 2024-04-25).
11. “JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon gives a soft landing long odds” (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-25). 13m video recording (no transcript).
12. “America’s economy is No. 1. That means trouble.” by Greg Ip (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-25).

Education

1. “Defending academic freedom in higher education and medicine” by Jeffrey S. Flier (Quillette, 2024-04-25).
2. “The threat to academic freedom: from anecdotes to data” by Eric Kaufmann (Quillette, 2021-03-12).

Health, medicine, and wellness

1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-05-03). Subtitled, “We’re covering Covid vaccine side effects…”.
2. “The morning” by Melissa Kirsch (The New York Times, 2024-04-27). Subtitled, “The advice to live each day to its fullest can seem like a cliché, but figuring out how to actually do that can be pretty challenging.”
3. “Episode 208: Kindness—It’s good for you!” by Born Curious podcast (Harvard Radcliffe Institute, 2024-04-18). 41m audio recording with transcript.

Law

1. “Resolving conflict outside the courtroom” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2024-04-29).

Politics

1. “The positive case for Joe Biden” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-03).
2. “Cease-fire will fail as long as Hamas exists, journalist says” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-01).
3. “Why are politicians so negative? (Hint: It’s a media problem)” by Mark Coddington, Seth Lewis (Nieman Lab, 2024-04-30).
4. “The age of cloud capital” by Yanis Varoufakis (Persuasion, 2024-04-29).
5. “Plaintext” by Makena Kelly (WIRED, 2024-04-26). On TikTok.
6. “Trump allies draw up plans to blunt Fed’s independence” by Andrew Restuccia, Nick Timiraos, Alex Leary (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-25).
7. “What are the obligations of Israel and Hamas to protect civilians?” (The Economist, 2024-04-24).
8. “The representation gap” by Sheri Berman (Persuasion, 2024-04-24).

Science

1. “Aviv Regev: The revolution in digital biology” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-04-28).

Society

1. “When free speech turns into harassment” by Cathy Young (Persuasion, 2024-05-03).
2. “How disinformation works—and how to counter it” (The Economist, 2024-05-02).
3. “The homelessness public health crisis” by Lydialyle Gibson (Harvard Magazine, 2024-05/06). 32m audio recording with article.
4. “Mike Pesca on how the media got polarized” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-04-27). 68m audio recording with transcript.
5. “We keep failing the blasphemy test” by Matt Johnson (Persuasion, 2024-04-26).
6. “Why are women becoming so much more liberal than men?” by Rob Henderson (The Boston Globe, 2024-04-25).
7. “Summer unplugged” by Jill Anderson (Harvard EdCast, 2024-04-17). 31m audio recording with transcript.
8. “How do we disagree in the public square?” (Zócalo, 2024-04). A collection of essays on disagreement in public discourse.
9. “Looking back on a decade of cancel culture” by Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott (Quillette, 2024-01-23).
10. “The paranoid style in American politics” by Richard Hofstader (Harper’s Magazine, 1964-11).

Society : Student protests

1. “Rules for campus radicals, 2024” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-02).
2. “Dear media, stop taking students too seriously” by Shalom Auslander (Persuasion, 2024-05-01).
3. “Escalating protests expose three fault lines on American campuses” (The Economist, 2024-04-30).
4. “America’s new mob rule” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-30).
5. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-04-25). Subtitled, “We’re covering the protests roiling college campuses…”.
6. “The campus is coming for Joe Biden” (The Economist, 2024-04-24).
7. “Efforts to tackle student protests in America have backfired badly” (The Economist, 2024-04-23).
8. “I’m a Columbia professor. The protests on my campus are not justice.” by John McWhorter (The New York Times, 2024-04-23).
9. “The 214th Columbia University Commencement address” by Richard Hofstadter (Columbia University, 1968-06-04).

Technology

1. “VMware users warned to brace for next big upheaval as latest Broadcom changes rumble on” by Craig Hale (Tech Radar, 2024-04-26).
2. “At Moderna, OpenAI’s GPTs are changing almost everything” by Isabelle Bousquette (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-24).
3. “Large language models are getting bigger and better” (The Economist, 2024-04-17).

Other

1. “How an allostatic approach can help you find stability in a crazy world” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-04-30).
2. “What was the American Jew?” by Sam Kahn (Persuasion, 2024-04-23).
3. “‘You must believe you can repair it’” by Scott Gilbertson (WIRED, 2023-05-28).

Read : 2023-12-06

Articles for reference

Cybersecurity

1. “Secure by design alert” (US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, 2023-11-29).
2. “Amazon CSO likens security to psychological chess matches” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-11-28).
3. “Okta hack update shows challenges in rapid cyber disclosures” by James Rundle, Catherine Stupp, Kim S. Nash (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-11-29).
4. “The power of storytelling in cybersecurity training” by Rick Wash (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-11-25).
5. “Virtual credit cards: What are they and should you use them?” by Cheryl Winokur Munk (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-11-20).
6. “CISA explains how to apply secure-by-design principles” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-11-20).
7. “CISA releases the Mitigation guide: healthcare and public health (HPH) sector” (CISA, 2023-11-17). Link to CISA’s “Mitigation guide: healthcare and public health (HPH) sector”.

   This guide provides defensive mitigation strategy recommendations and best practices to combat pervasive cyber threats affecting this critical infrastructure sector. It also identifies known vulnerabilities for organizations to assess their networks and minimize risks before intrusions occur.

Economics

1. “ADP National Employment Report: November 2023” (ADP, 2023-12-06).
2. “Higher interest rates are here to stay” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2023-12-05).
3. “The economic fallout of student loan forbearance ending” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-12-04).
4. “The most important inflation indicator shows more cooling ahead” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-11-30).
5. “Personal income and outlays, October 2023” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2023-11-30).
6. “Beware the new consensus on the global economy” by Mohamed A. El-Erian (Project Syndicate, 2023-11-29).
7. “The roaring 20s are back on track” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-11-18).
8. “The revenge of the inflation doves” (Project Syndicate, 2023-11-17). A collection of recent essays on recent disinflation in the US.
9. “Did the Fed rein in inflation?” by Jeffrey Frankel (Project Syndicate, 2023-11-17).
10. “Why mainstream economics got inflation wrong” by James K. Galbraith (Project Syndicate, 2023-11-15). More naming names than analyzing arguments?

Education

1. “Verizon Skill Forward” (edX, 2023). Free access to selected courses in “high-growth fields” to US based learners age 18 and older.
2. “Antisemitism and other forms of hate have no place at Harvard” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-12-05).
3. “Covid-19 was a disaster for the world’s schoolchildren” (The Economist, 2023-12-05). Leader.
4. “The pandemic’s toll on schooling emerges in terrible exam results” (The Economist, 2023-12-05). Report.
5. “How they found the work they were ‘meant’ to do” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-12-01).
6. “Committee to review request to dename Winthrop House” by Nikki Rojas (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-11-16).
7. “The startling evidence on learning loss is in” by The Editorial Board (The New York Times, 2023-11-18). Startling? To whom? Is “startling” different from “unexpected”? (Yes.) Who decided to close schools, to keep them closed or to reopen them, for what reasons and with what evidence? Who (especially, perhaps, influential media outlets) supported the decisions that led to this “startling” learning loss, for what reasons and with what evidence? Do the authors attempt to compare outcomes (and risks) from different schools or regions that took different approaches to schooling during the first years of the pandemic? or do they feed us a ready-made conclusion and their desired course of action? or do they do something else?
   Read critically.

Investing

1. “Who made millions trading the October 7th attacks?” (The Economist, 2023-12-05).

Law

1. “The argument for overturning Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins” by Jeff Neal (Harvard Law Today, 2023-11-17). Embedded 1h04m audio-video recording of talk by Stephen Sachs.

Mathematics

1. “Complexity theory’s 50-year journey to the limits of knowledge” by Ben Brubaker (Quanta Magazine, 2023-08-17).

Medicine

1. “From a detour to global dominance” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-12-05). On the SARS-CoV-2 JN.1 variant.

Politics

1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-12-06). Subtitled “We’re covering the potential comeback of labor unions…”.
2. “Will US–Indian relations be hurt by India’s assassination scheme?” (The Economist, 2023-12-05).
3. “What anti-Trumpism is missing” by Daron Acemoglu (Project Syndicate, 2023-11-29).

Science and technology

1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-12-01). On ChatGPT and AI.
2. “AWS expands AI training portfolio” by Matt Ashare (CIO Dive, 2023-11-27).
3. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-11-17). On the visions of the founders of Otter.ai and Rewind.

Society

1. “Elon Musk’s messiah complex may bring him down” (The Economist, 2023-12-05).
2. “Vibes vs. data” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-12-03).
3. “Modern wisdom, language games, broken windows” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2023-11-30). Embedded 1h49m audio-video recording.
4. “The morning” by German Lopez (The New York Times, 2023-11-29). Subtitled, “We’re covering claims of a shoplifting boom…”
5. “Sorry you feel that way: why passive aggression took over the world” by Josh Cohen (The Economist, 2023-11-21).
6. “Why dumb ideas capture smart and successful people” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2023-11-19).

Other

1. “Is it okay if my laptop is always plugged in so that my battery is charged 100%?” (Quora, ????).
2. “The 15 best books of 2023 for sustainable excellence and well-being” by Brad Stulberg, Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-??-??).
3. “Nobody finishes reading my books” by Paul Bloom (Small Potatoes, 2023-11-28).

Read : 2023-08-09

Free online course to check out

1. “Financial literacy” (Khan Academy). Introductory course.

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “Interest in George Orwell and his dystopian fiction is high” (The Economist, 2023-08-04).

Cybersecurity

1. “NIST releases draft overhaul of its core cybersecurity framework” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-08-09).
2. “The MOVEit spree is as bad as—or worse—than you think it is” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-08-09).
3. “New privacy tools to help you stay safe and in control online” by Danielle Romain (Google, 2023-08-03).
4. “Multiple Chinese APTs establish major beachheads inside sensitive infrastructure” by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica, 2023-08-01).
5. “2022 top routinely exploited vulnerabilities” (US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, 2023-08-03).
6. “White House looks to close massive cyber skills gap” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-08-01).
7. “Inside the massive 711 million record online spambot dump” by (TroyHunt.com, 2017-08-30). Troy Hunt runs the website Have I Been Pwned.
8. “Krebs’s 3 basic rules for online safety” by Brian Krebs (Krebs on Security, 2011-05-20).

Economics

1. “The EU’s fragile recovery” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-08-09).
2. “What was the tech-cession?” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-08-06).
3. “Economists reconsider industrial policy” by Dani Rodrik, Réka Juhász, Nathan Lane (Project Syndicate, 2023-08-04).
4. “The employment situation—July 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-08-04).
• Total nonfarm payrolls:
• July : +187k mom
• June (rev) : -24k to +185k mom
• May (rev) : -25k to +281k mom
• Unemployment rate : 3.5%
• Average hourly earnings:
• Private nonfarm employees : +0.4% mom (+4.4% yoy)
• Private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees : +0.5% mom (+4.8% yoy)
5. “The inflation crisis is not over” by Mario I. Blejer, Piroska Nagy Mohácsi (Project Syndicate, 2023-08-03).
6. “Interview: Heather Boushey, economist and member of the Council of Economic Advisers” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-08-02). Written transcript.
7. “ADP national employment report” (ADP, 2023-08-02).

Investing

1. “Investment theory in practice” by J. Bradford DeLong (Project Syndicate, 2023-08-01).
2. “Five things investors have learned this year” (The Economist, 2023-08-01).
3. “Financial literacy” (Khan Academy).

Politics

1. “The founders anticipated the threat of Trump” by Jeffrey Rosen (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-08-04).

Science and technology

1. “Melanie Mitchell: Straight talk on AI large language models” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-08-04). 40m podcast with full transcript.
2. “A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work” by Timothy B. Lee, Sean Trott (Ars Technica, 2023-07-31).
3. “Physicists rewrite a quantum rule that clashes with our universe” by Charlie Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2022-09-26).

Society

1. “The morning” by German Lopez (The New York Times, 2023-08-04). Subtitled, “We’re covering Oregon’s drug surge…”
2. “Climate change, global hunger: What to do?” by Clea Simon (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-08-01).

Other

1. “What’s really driving your procrastination and how to beat it” by Rachel Feintzeig (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-08-06).
2. “Overcoming fear: Lessons from public speaking” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-08-02).

Read : 2023-07-08

Articles for reading

1. “打首獄門同好会「なつのうた」” by 打首獄門同好会 (YouTube, 2019-07-24). 4m animated music video. I love the animation! And the song. Yes, that is summer, spot-on, for some of us.
2. “Elliptic curves yield their secrets in a new number system” by Kevin Hartnett (Quanta Magazine, 2023-07-06).

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “False relations in the late Renaissance” by Early Music Sources (YouTube, 2019-07-25).
2. “The fascinating counterpoint of Lamentation letters” by Early Music Sources (YouTube, 2023-07-06).
3. “打首獄門同好会「なつのうた」” by 打首獄門同好会 (YouTube, 2019-07-24). 4m animated music video.

Cybersecurity

1. “A first-hand look inside Walmart’s robust security operations” by Naomi Eide (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-01-30).
2. “The race is on: Tutanota launches development of post-quantum secure cloud” by Matthias Pfau (Tutanota, 2023-07-03).
3. “Aura sells cybersecurity to regular people” by Kim S. Nash (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-07-05).
4. “MOVEit vulnerability snags almost 200 victims, more expected” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-07-05).
5. “Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: Breaking encryption while preserving privacy is ‘magical thinking’” by Tonya Riley (Cyberscoop, 2023-07-07). Aren’t anti-malware (anti-virus) scanners a type of client-side scanner? I don’t recall cybersecurity experts voicing widespread privacy concerns about them. Is the difference that the database of suspicious signatures and behavior is maintained locally (on the user’s machine) for anti-malware programs, whereas the results of the client-side scanning that concerns Whittaker are transmitted to remote authorities? (Do these statements accurately describe how this software works?)

Economics

1. “Job opening and labor turnover—May 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-07-06).
2. “ADP National Employment Report : June 2023” (ADP, 2023-06).
3. “‘Greedflation’ is a nonsense idea” (The Economist, 2023-07-06).
4. “The employment situation—June 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-07-07).

Education

1. “Why are Vietnam’s schools so good?” (The Economist, 2023-06-29).

Mathematics

1. “Elliptic curves yield their secrets in a new number system” by Kevin Hartnett (Quanta Magazine, 2023-07-06).

Politics

1. “No one can stop Rupert Murdoch. That’s increasingly a problem.” by William D. Cohan (The New York Times, 2023-07-04). Why does the author mention in passing the cancelled engagement, without explicit context or explanation?
2. “Wisconsin’s governor just pulled off the strangest veto of the year” by Ben Kesling, Mariah Timms (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-07-07).

Science and technology

1. “Why we get scammed and what to do about it” by Daniel Simons, Christopher Chabris (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-07-07).

Society

1. “We don’t need to destroy the economy to save it” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-07-06).
2. “Plaintext” by Greg Barber (WIRED, 2023-07-07). On Bluesky, Threads, and social media.

Other

1. “Francis Schaeffer’s 4 prescriptions for the renewal of the church” by Trevin Wax (The Gospel Coalition, 2023-06-15).
2. “Self-management vs. self-leadership” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-07-06).

Read : 2023-04-14

Articles for reading

1. “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth” by John Heilemann (WIRED, 2000-11-01). On the US government’s anti-trust prosecution of Microsoft in the late 1990s.

Articles for reference

Athletics

1. “Running shoe anatomy: 6 parts that shape comfort and performance” by Emily Duane (Fleet Feet, 2022-10-19).
2. “Myth-busting wellness hacks: Cold plunges, coffee, alcohol, and fitness trackers” by Derek Thompson (Plain English, 2023-04-04). With guests Steve Magness and Brad Stulberg.

Cybersecurity

1. “Supply chain compromise or false positive: The intriguing case of efile.com” by Johannes Ullrich (SANS, 2023-04-03).

Economics

1. “The Fed’s credibility problem” by Mohamed A. El-Erian (Project Syndicate, 2023-04-03).
2. “Job openings and labor turnover—February 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-04-04).
3. “Why economics does not understand business” (The Economist, 2023-04-04).
4. “ADP National Employment Report : March 2023” (ADP, 2023-04).
5. “The Fed may not get inflation down to 2%, says Richard Clarida” by Richard Clarida (The Economist, 2023-04-04).
6. “The IMF faces a nightmarish identity crisis” (The Economist, 2023-04-04).
7. “How to fix the International Monetary Fund” (The Economist, 2023-04-05).
8. “The employment situtation—March 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-04-07).

Investing

1. “Stocks haven’t looked this unattractive since 2007” by Eric Wallerstein (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-04-06).
2. “Stocks have shrugged off the banking turmoil. Haven’t they?” (The Economist, 2023-04-05).
3. “Plaintext” by Aarian Marshall (WIRED, 2023-04-07). On ride-hailing, and specifically, Lyft.
4. “When celebrity ‘crypto-influencers’ rake in cash, investors lose big” by Kristen Senz (Harvard Business School : Working Knowledge, 2023-04-07).

Politics

1. “The view from the front line between Taiwan and China” (The Economist, 2023-04-05). About the island of Kinmen.
2. “Pentagon investigates more social-media posts purporting to include secret U.S. documents” by Yaroslav Trofimov, Nancy A. Youssef (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-04-07).
3. “China simulates precision strikes on Taiwan” (The Economist, 2023-04-08).
4. “How the state could take control of the banking system” (The Economist, 2023-04-12).
5. “Emmanuel Macron’s blunder over Taiwan” (The Economist, 2023-04-12).

Science and technology

1. “AI revolutionizes infosec” by Daniel Miessler (Daniel Miessler, 2023-04-02). Miessler argues AI will greatly enhance the “understanding” of context and will increase the importance of asking good questions.

Society

1. “At American law schools, a fresh fuss over freedom of speech” (The Economist, 2023-04-05).
2. “The case for an environmentalism that builds” (The Economist, 2023-04-05).

Other

1. “What the world’s hottest MBA courses reveal about 21st-century business” (The Economist, 2023-04-05).
2. “The difference between judging your experience and living it” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-04-06).
3. “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth” by John Heilemann (WIRED, 2000-11-01). On the US government’s anti-trust prosecution of Microsoft in the late 1990s.

Read : 2023-02-03

Articles for reading

1. “Doing medical rounds on streets, alleys of Boston” by Tracy Kidder (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-01-20). Excerpts from “Rough sleepers”, by Tracy Kidder.
2. “Bacow counsels first-years to be ‘slow to judge, quick to understand’” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-08-30).
3. “Republicans are right that federal budgeting is a joke” (The Economist, 2023-02-02). Subtitled, “But threatening America’s credit is even dumber.”

Articles for reference

Economics

1. “Fed debates whether wages or low unemployment will drive inflation” by Nick Timiraos (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-29).
2. “Too soon for global optimism” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2023-01-31).
3. “What is superior inflation?” by Brian Whitton, Dion Rabouin (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-31).
4. “ADP national employment report: January 2023” (ADP, 2023-02-01). 106k net private jobs added in January 2022. Median year-over-year increase in pay was 7.3% for job-stayers and 15.4% for job=changers.
5. “FOMC press conference: February 1, 2023” (US Federal Reserve, 2023-02-01).
6. “Stock, bond and crypto investors bet Fed is bluffing on interest rates” by Akane Otani, Nick Timiraos (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-02).
7. “The morning” by Ben Casselman (The New York Times, 2023-02-02). Subtitled, “New data suggests a promising possibility for the economy—that the U.S. avoids big job losses.” Upbeat and vague.
8. “Rallying markets suffer from a doveish illusion” (The Economist, 2023-02-01).
9. “TikTok’s corecore and the Federal Reserve” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-02-02).
10. “The employment situation—January 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-02-03).
11. “Job openings and labor turnover—December 2022” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-02-01). JOLTS news release.
12. “Unemployment falls to 3.4%, lowest in 53 years, jobs report shows” by David Harrison (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-03).

Investing

1. “Short sellers feel the pain in stock market’s 2023 rally” by Jack Pitcher, Akane Otani (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-29).
2. “Investors shrug off weak earnings reports as stocks rebound to start year” by Hannah Miao (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-01).
3. “6 of the most shocking stock increases and falls” by Andrew Bloomenthal (Investopedia, 2022-09-20).
4. “The unusual crew behind Tether, crypto’s pre-eminent stablecoin” by Ben Foley, Ada Hui, Peter Rudegeair (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-02).
5. “Big tech didn’t quite clear the bar” by Dan Gallagher (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-02).
6. “Why you should stop caring about the Dow Jones Industrial Average” by Allan Sloan (Yahoo! Finance, 2023-02-03).

Mathematics

1. “Mathematicians eliminate long-standing threat to knot conjecture” by Leila Sloman (Quanta Magazine, 2023-02-02). Mathematicians mentioned include Kristen Hendricks, Jennifer Hom, JungHwan Park, and Arunima Ray.

Medicine

1. “Doing medical rounds on streets, alleys of Boston” by Tracy Kidder (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-01-20). Excerpts from “Rough sleepers”, by Tracy Kidder.

Politics

1. “Friend-shoring vs. ‘buy American’” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-01-31).
2. “Chinese spy balloon spotted over Montana: What to know” by Warren P. Strobel, Doug Cameron, James T. Areddy (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-03).
3. “Republicans are right that federal budgeting is a joke” (The Economist, 2023-02-02). Subtitled, “But threatening America’s credit is even dumber.”

Science and technology

1. “Has first person to live to be 150 been born?” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-01-30). Interview with Jae-Hyun Yang and David Sinclair.
2. “The enormous heat pumps warming cities” by Evie Townend (BBC, 2023-02-01).

Society

1. “The morning” by Nicholas Fandos (The New York Times, 2023-01-30). Subtitled, “A surge of migrants taking buses northward has led Mayor Eric Adams to describe New York City as close to a ‘breaking point’.”
2. “Utopia or bust” by J. Bradford DeLong (Project Syndicate, 2023-02-03).
3. “Are diversity statements a threat to academic freedom?” by Checks and Balances (The Economist, 2023-02-03). 39-minute audio podcast.

Other

1. “Is cycling safe?” by Anna Lamb (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-01-30). Assessment offered by Harvard Chan School researcher Anne Lusk.
2. “William James and a life worth living” by Jonathan Beasley (Harvard Divinity School, 2023-01-20). An interview with John Kaag.
3. “Bacow counsels first-years to be ‘slow to judge, quick to understand’” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-08-30).
4. “Balancing competitiveness and letting go” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-02-02).

Read : 2023-01-07

Articles for reference

Economics

1. “ADP National Employment Report : December 2022” (ADP, 2023-01-05).
2. “The Fed is hiking up that mountain” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-01-05).
3. “Three economic happenings of note” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-01-17).

Investing

1. “Corporate insiders aren’t betting on a market rebound” by Jack Pitcher (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-05).

Politics

1. “It’s tempting to laugh at McCarthy’s struggles, but history shows that this type of chaos is not a joke” by Joanne B. Freeman (The New York Times, 2023-01-07).

Other

1. “The benefits of perfectly imperfect practice” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-01-05).