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 : 2024-02-27

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.

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”.

Read : 2022-05-07

Articles for reading:

1. “To perform your best, let go” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2022-05-05). Working link to Google’s report on “Teacher status in Finland“. Excerpt 1:

   Hire good people, get out of their way. Trust them to do their job. Let go of over-controlling.

   Excerpt 2:

   [S]ometimes it’s better to simply have faith in yourself or your people—the kind [of faith] that is born out of confidence from knowing that you put in the appropriate preparation—and then let go.

2. “It’s not easy being your brain” by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-04-11). Excerpt 1:

   [A] preliminary study performed by Fleming and colleagues in China found that collectivist societies, like China, have better metacognition than individualist ones, like Great Britain.

   Excerpt 2:

   [S]tudies have shown a correlation between anxiety or depression and high metacognition, perhaps because of an acute sensitivity to errors. “Metacognition promotes good decision-making,” Fleming said. But for highly skilled athletes or musicians, this constant self-monitoring can get in the way.

   Brings to mind Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s idea of “flow“. Excerpt 3:

   Obviously, you wouldn’t want your self-driving car to be overconfident.

3. “How to break a bad habit” by Harvard Health Blog (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-05-02).
4. “Book review: Trade wars are class wars” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-04-27). A review of the book “Trade wars are class wars”, by Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis.
5. “Think bigger about remote work” by Adam Ozimek (Noahpinion, 2022-04-28).

Articles for reference:

Abortion in the United States:

1. “Softer language post-leak? Maybe, says Tribe, but ruling will remain an ‘iron fist’” by Colleen Wash (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-05-03).
2. “The consequences of ending Americans’ right to abortion” (The Economist, 2022-05-03).
3. “The Supreme Court is out of step with most Americans” by Jesse Wegman (The New York Times, 2022-05-03).
4. “The Supreme Court leak on Roe v. Wade” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-05-03).
5. “How to save the Supreme Court from itself” (The Economist, 2022-05-07).
6. “Is an emboldened conservative majority taking the Supreme Court in an unpopular new direction?” (Harvard Kennedy School, 2022-05-04). An interview with HKS Professor Maya Sen.

The US Federal Reserve:

1. “The Fed’s balance sheet is about to shrink. Wall Street is not ready” (The Economist, 2022-05-02).
2. “The Fed causes gyrations in financial markets” (The Economist, 2022-05-07).

Science and maths:

1. “Scientific discovery gets kind of government seal of approval” by Juan Siliezar (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-05-03).
2. “Where do space, time and gravity come from?” by Steven Strogatz (Quanta Magazine, 2022-05-04).
3. “Hallmarks of Alzheimer’s found well before diagnosis” by MGH News and Public Affairs (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-05-02).
4. “Clues into a sleep mystery” by Ekaterina Pesheva (Harvard Medical Scool, 2022-04-28).
5. “Subvariants cause for alarm, hybrid immunity hard to beat” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-04-27).
6. “Elegant six-page proof reveals the emergence of random structure” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2022-04-25).
7. “Forgetting, fast and slow” by Juan Siliezar (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-04-13).

   [W]hat is forgotten doesn’t completely go away and can be reactivated with a kind of jump start.

   Brings to mind Neil Postman’s remarks on the social sciences.
8. “Inflammatory insights” by Nancy Fliesler (Harvard Medical School, 2022-04-06).
9. “Whimsical steampunk tour of quantum thermodynamics” by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-03-31).

Twitter and Elon Musk:

1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2022-04-08). On Elon Musk and Twitter.
2. “Elon Musk wants to re-engineer the ‘public square’” (The Economist, 2022-04-30).

Other:

1. “‘Financial literacy’ vs. farm education” by Dave Nadig (ETF Trends, 2022-05-04).
2. “Dichotomy in the golden age of fraud” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2022-05-06). scanlon links her notes at the top of the post, which reads like slightly fleshed-out notes. This comic, appearing in the post, resonated with me.
3. “Mr. Crypto goes to Washington” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2022-04-23).
4. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2022-05-06). On Apple and Steve Jobs.
5. “How Apple got everything right by doing everything wrong” by Leander Kahney (WIRED, 2008-03-18).
6. “Five books to understand U.S. unrest” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-05-06).
7. “Competition to promote excellence” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2022-04).
8. “Dual message of slavery probe: Harvard’s ties inseparable from rise, and now university must act” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-04-26). Includes link to Harvard & the legacy of slavery.
9. “Heather McGhee wins the 2022 Zócalo book prize” by Sarah Rothbard (Zócalo, 2022-04-25). Overview and interview.
10. “Hillary Clinton and the Durham inquiry” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-05-03).
11. “The American socialist worldview is just totally broken” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-04-17).
12. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2022-04-22). Subtitled, “What might a more effective mask mandate look like?”

    Public health advice has been way off the mark, all along, about mask protection. We have given the public a sense of a level of protection that is just not warranted… Let’s just be honest.
    —Michael Osterholm, epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota, former state epidemiologist in Minnesota

13. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2022-05-05). Subtitled, “New research is showing the high costs of long school closures in some communities.” This article reads like Pharisaic criticism, two years too late, from those comfortably removed from daily reality in the trenches.

Read : 2022-02-26

Articles for reading:

1. “Mr. Putin launches a sequel to the Cold War” by The Editorial Board (The NY Times, 2022-02-24).
2. “Avi Loeb: Aliens, black holes, and the mystery of the Oumuamua” by Lex Fridman (YouTube, 2021-01-13). 2h44m video.
3. “Understanding the Fed’s hawkish pivot” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas, 2022-02-19).
4. “The C.D.C. isn’t publishing large portions of the covid data it collects” by Apoorva Mandavilli (The NY Times, 2022-02-20).

   For more than a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collected data on hospitalizations for Covid-19 in the United States and broken it down by age, race and vaccination status. But it has not made most of the information public.

5. “Cryptographers achieve perfect secrecy with imperfect devices” by Mordechai Rorvig (Quanta Magazine, 2022-02-25).

Articles on Ukraine:

1. “Russian incursion into Ukraine ‘very likely’, says John B. Bellinger III ’86” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2022-02-10).
2. “Russian buildup near Ukraine features potent weapons systems, well-trained troops” by Michael R. Gordon, Max Rust (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-02-13).
3. “Biden speaks to Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky as prospect of conflict looms” by Alex Leary, Laurence Norman (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-02-13).
4. “Would a war in Ukraine lead to a wider cyber-conflict?” (The Economist, 2022-02-23).
5. “A moment of clarity” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-02-24). Subtitle: “The Russian invasion of Ukraine should wake us up.”
6. “Wide range of possible targets for Russian cyber strikes, from infrastructure to smartphones” by Colleen Walsh (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-02-24).
7. “How invasion may hit U.S., global economies” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-02-24).
8. “What happens next in Ukraine?” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-02-24).

Articles for reference:

1. “You’ve done self care. You’ve languished. Now try this.” by Brad Stulberg (The NY Times, 2022-02-13).
2. “Can democrats see what’s coming?” by Ezra Klein (The NY Times, 2022-02-12).
3. “What would happen if financial markets crashed?” (The Economist, 2022-02-12).
4. “Cathie Wood’s ARK stays the course, betting big on innovation” by Michael Wursthorn (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-02-13).
5. “Are we all narcissists?” by Jackie Mansky (Zócalo, 2022-02-11).
6. “The sects that rejected 19th-century sex” by Stewart Davenport (Zócalo, 2022-02-14).
7. “A poem that would not let me go” by Drea Brown (Zócalo, 2020-05-31).
8. “High-flying inflation—are central banks still in control?” (The Economist, 2022-02-16). 38m podcast.
9. “Machine learning becomes a mathematical collaborator” by Kelsey Houston-Edwards (Quanta Magazine, 2022-02-15).
10. “What happens when you do—or don’t—identify with your achievement” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2022-02).
11. “The rejection of Bidenomics” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-02-19).
12. “The professor who beat roulette” by Zachary Crockett (The Hustle, 2019-05-11).
13. “Stock market got you worried? Write a D-Day note” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-02-18).
14. “UC Berkeley and American stagnation” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas, 2022-02-21).
15. “Interview: Emi Nakamura, macroeconomist” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-02-21).
16. “How to be perfect” by Colleen Walsh (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-02-18). A short interview with Michael Schur, creator of the TV comedy “The good place”.

Read : 2021-12-02

Today’s selection of articles:

1. “2021 NCAA D1 Women’s Volleyball Tournament bracket” (NCAA, 2021-11-28). Tournament play begins Thursday 2 December!
2. “The extraordinary popular delusion of bubble spotting” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2011-11-05). A link to MarketPsych, referenced in the article. I did not see their bubble-ometer; perhaps it has been retired.
3. “Elon Musk tells SpaceX employees that Starship engine crisis is creating a ‘risk of bankruptcy’” by Michael Sheetz (CNBC, 2021-11-30).
4. “Harvard Youth Poll : 42nd edition : Fall 2021 : Top trends and takeaways” (Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, 2021-12-01). I arrived at this page via this article on the Harvard Kennedy School website.
5. “A Marin lawyer became the ‘godfather of conflict mediation’ — then he ran for local office” by Joe Mathews (Zócalo, 2021-11-30).
6. “Where does climate change data come from?” by James Gallimore (Zócalo, 2021-12-01).
7. “The 21 best books of 2021 for sustainable success and well-being” by Steve Magness & Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2021-12-01?).
8. “Omicron ‘astonishing to behold’, says Hanage” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2021-12-01). The sensationalized title disappoints me. In my opinion, it would have been more honest to have used (part of) the subtitle: “Harvard epidemiologist shares early impression of variant”.

   We know that it’s not very mild because hospitalizations are ticking up in South Africa. We know that it’s not incredibly serious, because hospitalizations are ticking up but not incredibly fast. So, all we can exclude is the extremes…

   New (to me), Hanage appears to express frustration with news media and (its influence on) public discussion about covid:

   [A]nybody who has talked about the “end of the pandemic” has been doing people a disservice. Because you don’t get “ends,” what you get is a point where, gradually, people are able to chill, and they chill at different rates depending on their own attitudes about risk.

9. “BioNTech’s boss, Ugur Sahin, remains sanguine about omicron” (The Economist, 2021-11-30).