Read : 2023-10-19

Articles for reference

Cybersecurity

1. “Ransomware comes back in vogue for cybercriminals” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-10-17).
2. “Cisco’s critical IOS XE software zero day is a ‘bad situation’” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-10-17).
3. “How ads on your phone can aid government surveillance” by Byron Tau, Andrew Mollica, Patience Haggin, Dustin Volz (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-10-13).
4. “On the cybersecurity jobs shortage” by Bruce Schneier (2023-09-20). Schneier seconds Ben Rothke’s analysis of the alleged imbalance in the cybersecurity job market.
5. “Password safety: Are yours secure enough?” (Equifax, ????). I don’t recommend the method proposed in point 1—it seems like a great way to forget your password. If you use a password manager (of any sort), then you can use a pseudorandom process to generate a “complex” password without having to tie it to certain characters in a passphrase. Point 5 on complexity seems at odds, in spirit, with NIST’s password guidelines from 2022 (see Netwrix).
6. “What is personal cybersecurity?” (Equifax, ????).
7. “Did NSA put a secret backdoor in new encryption standard?” by Bruce Schneier (WIRED, 2007-11-15).

Economics

1. “Wall Street’s latest obsession is a unknowable number” by Sam Goldfarb (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-10-18). On the term premium.
2. “Why one Fed official is ready to stop raising rates” by Nick Timiraos (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-10-18). Article based on interview with Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker.
3. “Advanced economies must face fiscal reality” by Michael J. Boskin (Project Syndicate, 2023-10-18).
4. “Boiling America’s economy” by Anne O. Krueger (Project Syndicate, 2023-10-16).

Education

1. “AWS launches training institute to tackle the cloud skills gap” by Matt Ashare (CIO Dive, 2023-10-10).
2. “Introducing AWS Cloud Institute, a virtual program that trains you to become a cloud developer in as little as one year” by Amazon Staff (Amazon, 2023-10-10).

Medicine

1. “Covid nasal vaccines get a boost” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-10-14).

Politics

1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt, Ian Prasad Philbrick (The New York Times, 2023-10-17). Subtitled, “We’re covering Biden’s objectives in the Middle East…”.
2. “Analyses of proposed constitutional amendments” by Texas Legislative Council (2023-08).

Science and technology

1. “The top technology conferences to attend in 2024” by Roberto Torres (CIO Dive, 2023-10-11).
2. “The A.I. wars have three factions, and they all crave power” by Bruce Schneier, Nathan Sanders (The New York Times, 2023-09-28).

Society

1. “How MrBeast broke the economy” by kyla scanlon (Kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-10-17).
2. “U.S. students are clashing over the Israel–Hamas war. What can colleges do?” by Rachel Treisman, Elissa Nadworny (NPR, 2023-10-14).
3. “Political disinformation and AI” by Bruce Schneier (The Conversation, 2023-09-29).

Other

1. “You’re writing it wrong” by Samantha Zuniga-Levy (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-10-16).

Read : 2023-09-22

Articles for reading

1. “‘The Constitution doesn’t contain instructions for its own interpretation’” by Brett Milano (Harvard Law Today, 2023-09-15). Includes embedded link to 55m video on YouTube. I recommend watching the full talk, rather than reading just the article’s summary.

Articles for reference

Cybersecurity

1. “Cisco’s Splunk deal shows allure of AI in cybersecurity” by James Rundle, Kim S. Nash (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-09-22).
2. “CISA urges use of memory safe code in software development” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-09-22).
3. “Harmonization of cyber incident reporting to the federal government” (US Department of Homeland Security, 2023-09-19).
4. “Security has an underlying defect: passwords and authentication” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-09-18).
5. “Zero-click exploit in iPhones” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2023-09-13).

Economics

1. “Transcript of Chair Powell’s press conference” (US Federal Reserve, 2023-09-20). One can view the video or read the Fed’s Summary of Economic Projections.
2. “The great debt conundrum” by Anne O. Krueger (Project Syndicate, 2023-09-19).
3. “An age of austerity is probably on the way” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-09-18).
4. “How global currencies end” by Barry Eichengreen (Project Syndicate, 2023-09-11).

Investing

1. “Making sense of stock buybacks” by Michael Roberts (Knowledge at Wharton, 2023-03-07).

Law

1. “‘The Constitution doesn’t contain instructions for its own interpretation’” by Brett Milano (Harvard Law Today, 2023-09-15). Includes embedded link to 55m video on YouTube.

Medicine and health

1. “Not getting enough sleep? That’s only half the battle.” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-09-19).
2. “Straight talk with Peter Hotez” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-09-19). 49m audio podcast with transcript. Subtitled “A freewheeling discussion on anti-science, the pandemic, the spectacular story of Corbevax, and much more”.
3. “An exciting new approach to autoimmune diseases” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-09-17).
4. “Tendon pain & what to do about it” by Katie McCallum (Houston Methodist, 2023-09-14).
5. “‘Ultra-processed people’ hopes to disgust Americans into dumping poor diets” by Jerold Mande (Harvard Public Health, 2023-08-29).
6. “‘Wonder drug’ draws back the veil on thalidomide’s hidden American victims” by Richard J. Tofel (Harvard Public Health, 2023-07-17).

Politics

1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-09-20). Subtitled “We’re covering a change in how Biden talks about the world…”.
2. “Remarks by President Biden before the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly” by Joe Biden (The White House, 2023-09-19).
3. “An off-ramp from Trump’s road to ruin” by Michael R. Strain (Project Syndicate, 2023-09-14).

Psychology

1. “Master of happiness” by Paul Massari (Harvard GSAS, 2023-09-08). On Tal Ben-Shahar and the field of happiness studies.
2. “The sad state of happiness in the United States and the role of digital media” by Jean M. Twenge (World Happiness Report, 2019-03-20).
3. “The General Social Survey” (NSF, ????). Referenced in Twenge’s article above.

Science and technology

1. “The Real Python Podcast: Episode 173 : Getting involved in open source & generating QR codes with Python” by Christopher Bailey, Christopher Trudeau (The Real Python Podcast, 2023-09-22). 48m audio podcast, with links.
2. “5 ways to get started in open source” by Stefanie Molin (Level Up Coding, 2023-08-29). The article discussed in the open-source-contribution part of The Real Python Podcast: Episode 173, starting at timestamp 26m31s.
3. “Behold modular forms, the ‘fifth fundamental operation’ of math” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2023-09-21).
4. “What Cisco learned about Mac vs. PC in the enterprise” by Matt Ashare (CIO Dive, 2023-09-21).
5. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-09-22). Thoughts on how AI may change humans.

Society

1. “‘The forgotten girls’ of the American Ozarks” by Maura Kelly (Harvard Public Health, 2023-07-24).

Other

1. “What makes criticism so sticky?” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-09-21).
2. “Stop obsessing about having the perfect career plan” by Rachel Feintzeig (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-09-17).
3. “The importance of handwriting is becoming better understood” (The Economist, 2023-09-14).
4. “How to remember a disaster without being shattered by it” by Erika Hayasaki (WIRED, 2021-02-23).

Read : 2023-05-24

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “Margot Robbie’s life in looks covers her iconic red carpet looks and movie roles” by Christian Allaire (Vogue, 2023-05-24).

Cybersecurity

1. “Darknet diaries”, Episodes 28 (“Unit 8200“), 29 (“Stuxnet“), and 30 (“Shamoon“) by Jack Rhysider (Darknet Diaries, 2018-12–2019-01).
2. “Secret messages can hide in AI-generated media” by Stephen Ornes (Quanta Magazine, 2023-05-18).
3. “KeePass exploit helps retrieve cleartext master password, fix coming soon” by Bill Toulas (Bleeping Computer, 2023-05-18).

Economics

1. “Meet the lefty Europeans who want to shrink the economy” (The Economist, 2023-05-18).
2. “A world of debt” by Anne O. Krueger (Project Syndicate, 2023-05-23).

Investing

1. “A housing bust comes for thousands of small-time investors” by Will Parker, Konrad Putzier, Shane Shifflett (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-05-23).

Mathematics

1. “Surprise computer science proof stuns mathematicians” by Leila Sloman (Quanta Magazine, 2023-03-21).
2. “Hobbyist finds math’s elusive ‘Einstein’ tile” by Erica Klarreich (Quanta Magazine, 2023-04-04).
3. “Math patterns that go on forever but never repeat” by Patrick Honner (Quanta Magazine, 2023-05-23).

Science and technology

1. “How does your phone know when to rotate the screen?” by Nischay Khanna (Make Use Of, 2022-09-13). Short answer: accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer.
2. “Does letting a phone discharge completely before charging it again improve its battery life?” by Ashish (Science ABC, 2022-03-22). Short answer: No.

Society

1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-05-22). Subtitled, “Democrats used to criticize the Supreme Court respectfully. Increasingly, they see the court is irredeemable.”

   Across history, the goals of such criticism have tended to be similar. The critics hope to damage the court’s credibility with other political leaders and the public, making it uncomfortable for the justices to issue unpopular rulings.

   Is the court’s mandate is to issue popular rulings?

Other

1. “Your next big move should scare you” by Rachel Feintzeig (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-05-22).

Read : 2023-03-12

Articles for reading

1. “The death of Silicon Valley Bank” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-03-11).

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “The 55 best Oscars red carpet dresses of all time” by Christian Allaire (Vogue, 2023-03-06).

Cybersecurity

1. “After the LastPass hack, can you trust password managers?” by Nicole Nguyen (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-12).

Economics

1. “ChatGPT, please take my job!” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-03-04).
2. “How America soaks the affluent” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-03).
3. “Can the Phillips curve explain recent wage growth?” by Alex Domash, Lawrence H. Summers (CEPR, 2023-02-27).
4. “Hot dogs can explain our view of inflation and employment changes with the seasons” by Kara Dapena, Austen Hufford (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-07).
5. “Junk-rated companies are borrowing again” by Sam Goldfarb, Alana Pipe (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-06).
6. “Fragmented globalism” by Mohamed A. El-Erian (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-08).
7. “Labor market vs inflation” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-03-09).
8. “The employment situation—February 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-03-10).
9. “What does Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse mean for the financial system?” (The Economist, 2023-03-10).
10. “Why was there a run on Silicon Valley Bank?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-03-10).
11. “The death of Silicon Valley Bank” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-03-11).
12. “Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC” (US Department of the Treasury, 2023-03-12).
13. “Preventing panic in the banking sector” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-03-12).

Health and medicine

1. “Young people are hurting, and their parents are feeling it” by Samatha Laine Perfas (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-06).
2. “The morning” by Emily Bazelon (The New York Times, 2023-03-08). Subtitled, “Since Roe v. Wade ended, the battle over legal abortion has largely shifted to access to pills.”

Investing

1. “Crypto companies behind Tether used falsified documents and shell companies to get bank accounts” by Ben Foldy, Ada Hui (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-03).

Law

1. “Is a distrusted judiciary ‘truly the beginning of the end’?” by Brett Milano (Harvard Law Today, 2023-03-07).
2. “The U.S. is in the ‘midst of an identity crisis’” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2023-03-08).

Politics

1. “How did Americans come to trust markets more than government?” by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-03).
2. “Democrats and Republicans grill Fed Chair Jerome Powell in Senate Banking Comittee” by Forbes Breaking News (YouTube, 2023-03-07). “The semiannual monetary policy report to the Congress”.
3. “The morning” by German Lopez (The New York Times, 2023-03-09). Subtitled, “Both U.S. political parties are now open to the idea that covid may have come from a lab in China.”
4. “China’s new way to control its biggest companies: golden shares” by Lingling Wei (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-08).
5. “Biden’s budget proposal for 2024: What to know” by Andrew Restuccia, Andrew Duehren (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-08).
6. “U.K. privacy bill aims to reduce the burden on business” by Catherine Stupp (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-08).
7. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-03-10). Subtitled, “Is the Democratic party again starting to pay more attention to labor unions?”
8. “America and China are preparing for a war over Taiwan” (The Economist, 2023-03-09).
9. “China’s new head of government, Li Qiang, has Xi Jinping’s ear” (The Economist, 2023-03-12).

Science and technology

1. “Electric vehicles are shattering the barrier to adoption that could matter most” by Christopher Mims (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-04).
2. “The algorithm society and its discontents” by J. Bradford DeLong (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-06).
3. “How Google became cautious of AI and gave Microsoft an opening” by Miles Kruppa, Sam Schechner (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-07).

Society

1. “In aging Japan, one town holds the secret to making more babies” by Miho Inada (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-03).
2. “Can apprenticeships work in the US? Employers seeking new talent pipelines take note” by Michael Blanding (Harvard Business School : Working Knowledge, 2023-02-28).
3. “An evening without Gary Lineker” (The Economist, 2023-03-12).

Other

1. “Interview: Kevin Kelly, editor, author, and futurist” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-03-07).
2. “A weight gain theory of everything” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-03-09).

Read : 2023-03-03

Articles for reading

1. “A letter from Mexico City: Can polarization build democracy?” by Javier González (Zócalo, 2023-02-27).
2. “Fed might be winning inflation fight, depending on index used” by Gwynn Guilford (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-02). Forecasting differences in CPI and PCEPI measures for 2023.
3. “The end of the English major” by Nathan Heller (The New Yorker, 2023-02-27).
4. “The worlds of Italo Calvino” by Merve Emre (The New Yorker, 2023-02-27). I find Calvino’s prepared notes for his lecture series “Six memos for the next millennium”—never delivered—a wonderful window into the author’s mind.
5. “Textualism is ‘missing something’” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2023-03-01). The article includes a video recording of William Baude’s lecture, titled “Beyond textualism?” (YouTube, 42m).

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “The worlds of Italo Calvino” by Merve Emre (The New Yorker, 2023-02-27).

Athletics

1. “NCAA publishes Division I 2022–2023 National Championship standards” by Braden Keith (SwimSwam, 2022-08-01).

Cybersecurity

1. “Fact Sheet: Biden–Harris administration announces national cybersecurity strategy” (The White House, 2023-03-02).
2. “National cybersecurity strategy” (The White House, 2023-03).
3. “Biden national cyber strategy seeks to hold software firms liable for insecurity” by Dustin Volz (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-02).
4. “How the U.S. national cyber strategy reaches beyond government agencies” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-02).

   “We recognize that we need to move from a public-private partnership, information-sharing approach to implementing minimum mandates.”
   —Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology

5. “Electric vehicles could be targeted by hackers” by Zoe Thomas (The Wall Street Journal > Tech News Briefing, 2023-03-01). “[A]nd why do EVs pose a bigger risk than gas-powered cars?”
6. “You can’t trust app developers’ privacy claims on Google Play” by Lily-Hay Newman (WIRED > WIRED Security podcast, 2023-02-27).
7. “Could electric vehicles be hacked?” by Bart Ziegler (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-14).
8. “Cisco chief says tech products must be made more secure” by Catherine Stupp (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-02).

Economics

1. “China debt blowout rings alarm bells as leadership meets” (Bloomberg News, 2023-02-28).
2. “Past U.S. industrial policy offers lessons, risks for chips program” by Greg Ip (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-28).
3. “Fed might be winning inflation fight, depending on index used” by Gwynn Guilford (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-02).
4. “Why the data makes no sense” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-03-02).

Education

1. “The end of the English major” by Nathan Heller (The New Yorker, 2023-02-27).

Health and medicine

1. “Amyloid gains converts in debate over Alzheimer’s treatments” by Joseph Walker (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-27).
2. “Consulting Dr. YouTube” by BWH Communications (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-02-28). On sleep tips, from YouTube and from doctors.
3. “Heart attacks and strokes late after covid” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-03-03).
4. “New drugs could spell an end to the world’s obesity epidemic” (The Economist, 2023-03-02).

Investing

1. “Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway posts big 2022 loss in rocky market” by Akane Otani (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-25).
2. “Warren Buffett’s slap at buyback illiterates rings true” by Spencer Jakab (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-27).

Law

1. “Speak freely” by Julia Hanna (Harvard Law Bulletin, 2023-02-14).
2. “Why I changed my mind” by Christine Perkins (Harvard Law Today, 2023-03-02).
3. “Textualism is ‘missing something’” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2023-03-01). The article includes a video recording of William Baude’s lecture (YouTube, 42m).

Politics

1. “The build-nothing country” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-02-27).
2. “A letter from Mexico City: Can polarization build democracy?” by Javier González (Zócalo, 2023-02-27).
3. “Even Democrats like me are fed up with San Francisco” by Michael Moritz (The New York Times, 2023-02-26).
4. “Biden’s growing credibility gap” by Michael J. Boskin (Project Syndicate, 2023-02-28).
5. “Sleepwalking toward accidental conflict” by Stephen S. Roach (Project Syndicate, 2023-02-27).
6. “Biden administration urges Congress to renew spy law” by Dustin Volz (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-28). On the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Section 702.
7. “Insider-trading cases once deemed too hard to crack are now targets of U.S. government” by Dave Michaels, Mark Maremont (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-03). The US Justice Department, “using data analysis”, has begun pursuing more cases against individuals trading under Rule 10b5-1.
8. “Why the Russia sanctions are missing the mark” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-03).

Science and technology

1. “Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-02-24). Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb on black holes.
2. “One small step toward understanding gravity” by Alice McCarthy (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-02-22).
3. “WIRED podcasts” (WIRED). Gateway to WIRED’s podcasts.

Science and technology : Cell phones and mental health

1. “Why I’m not writing about kids and screen time anymore” by Julie Jargon (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-25).
2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-02-27). “We examine the raging debate about smartphones and teenage mental health.”
3. “Honestly, it’s probably the phones” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-03-02).

Society

1. “Apartment rents fall as crush of new supply hits market” by Will Parker (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-27).
2. “Everything you think you know about homelessness is wrong” by Aaron Carr (Noahpinion, 2023-03-03).

Other

1. “I’ve been to the mountaintop” by Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Rhetoric, 1968-04-03). Audio recording and transcribed text.
2. “What the nose knows” by Colleen Walsh (The Harvard Gazette, 2020-02-27).
3. “What Harold McGee learned after decade of sniffing durian, keyboards, outer space” by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-01).
4. “Havana syndrome unlikely caused by foreign adversary or weapon, U.S. report says” by Warren P. Strobel (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-01).
5. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-03-03). On Malcolm Harris and his new book, “Palo Alto”.