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 : 2021-01-XX

“Political” articles:

1. “‘The protesters are in the building.’ Inside the Capitol stormed by a pro-Trump mob” by Lindsay Wise, Catherine Lucey, & Andrew Restuccia (Wall Street Journal, 2021-01-06). According to the article, Trump responded to the events by writing on Twitter, “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!”. I disagree. I believe these are the things and events that happen when a sacred process like democratic self-government is delegitimized by both political parties over many years, when its outcome is not to their liking; when individuals who feel dismissed and disrespected allow themselves to be whipped into a frenzy by manipulative individuals and media, rejecting the teachings of prophets about the true power and justice of nonviolent protest.
2. “‘It is over’: Democrats’ efforts to deny Trump presidency fail” by Matt Flegenheimer (NY Times, 2017-01-06).
3. “Trump hasn’t conceded Georgia. Neither did Stacey Abrams. What changed?” by Emma Hurt (NPR, 2020-11-18).
4. “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (Wikipedia).
5. “This is what Trump told supporters before many stormed Capitol Hill” by Julia Jacobo (ABC News, 2021-01-07).
6. “Blocking the president” by Kim Wright (Harvard Law Today, 2021-01-13). Interviews with Harvard Law professor Yochai Benkler and Harvard Law School SJD candidate evelyn douek.
7. “‘A grim form of political theater’” by Emily Newburger (Harvard Law Today, 2021-01-08). An interview with Law Professor Sanford Levinson.
8. “Joe Biden’s inauguration address: Watch speech in full with annotated transcript” (Wall Street Journal, 2021-01-20).

Seeking some wisdom:

1. “The other America” by Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr (1968-03-14).
2. “Beyond Vietnam” by Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr (1967-04-04).
3. “I’ve been to the mountaintop” by Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr (1968-04-03).
4. “King’s message of nonviolence has been distorted” by Dara T. Mathis (The Atlantic, 2018-04-03). In this article, does Dara Mathis distort it further?

Wikipedia articles on distressing events in 2020:

1. “Killing of George Floyd” (Wikipedia).
2. “Killing of Rayshard Brooks” (Wikipedia).
3. “Shooting of Jacob Blake” (Wikipedia).

Academic-type articles:

1. “How I learned to love and fear the Riemann hypothesis” by Alex Kontorovich (Quanta Magazine, 2021-01-04).
2. “I teach a course on happiness at Yale: this is how to make the most of your resolutions” by Laurie Santos (The Guardian, 2021-01-08).

On investing (speculating, gambling, what have you):

1. “Elon Musk tweet sends this stock up 1,500% in 24 hours — may be a sign of market bubble” by Brian Sozzi (Yahoo Finance, 2021-01-11). Signal Advance (SIGL). Unrelated to the Signal messaging platform in Musk’s tweet.
2. “Stimulus is like heroin, ‘it doesn’t do you a lot of good long-term’: Wall Street heavy hitter” by Brian Sozzi (Yahoo Finance, 2021-01-19). Interview with Rob Arnott.
3. “GameStop stock frenzy: What you need to know” by Alexander Osipovich (Wall Street Journal, 2021-01-27).
4. “GameStop, bitcoin and QAnon: How the wisdom of crowds became the anarchy of the mob” by Christopher Mims (Wall Street Journal, 2021-01-29).
5. “GameStop trading restrictions blamed on Wall Street’s clearing firm by online broker” by Caitlin McCabe (Wall Street Journal, 2021-01-28).
6. “The Reddit GameStop bubble is just a game—for now” by Jon Sindreu (Wall Street Journal, 2021-01-27).
7. “GameStop day traders won’t sack Wall Street” by Mike Bird (Wall Street Journal, 2021-01-26). The journalist argues that the extraordinary swings of GameStop and other recent day-trader favorites “aren’t really undermining the working of American capital markets”. Is the argument well reasoned and convincing?
8. “An open letter to the GameStop army on Reddit” by Brett Arends (Market Watch, 2021-01-30). Distinguish between gambling and investing, sympathy for double-standards, and (most importantly!) don’t leave the market forever if you get burned once — the forgone gains will be worse.

On covid:

1. “COVID-19: What do we know about the new coronavirus variant?” by Maria Cohut & Yella Hewings-Martin (Medical News Today, 2021-01-12).

Lighter, heartier fare:

1. “What’s opera, doc?” (Warner Bros. Pictures Inc.). 6m02s animation.
2. “Let’s run with Daniel Barron” (The Running Grind, 2020-12). 1h21m podcast.
3. “This week, the best-dressed stars set the tone for 2021” by Janelle Okwodu (Vogue, 2021-01-04). I like Chris Lee’s outfit (photo 2).