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13 May 2024

Read : 2024-05-13

Articles for reading

  1. “How French intellectuals ruined the West” by Helen Pluckrose (Quillette, 2024-05-07; republished from Aero Magazine, 2017-03).
  2. “What people got wrong about the film Parasite” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2022-03-31).

Articles for reference

Business and investing

  1. “The smartest people in the room are all listening to the same podcast” by Ben Cohen (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-10).
  2. “How did Jim Simons’s firm make $100 billion? He told his secrets to our reporter” by Gregory Zuckerman (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-10).

Cybersecurity

  1. “Businesses, government see progress in cyber hiring, with exceptions” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-10).

Education

  1. “Against mandatory DEI statements” by Randall Kennedy (Persuasion, 2024-05-10).
  2. “How French intellectuals ruined the West” by Helen Pluckrose (Quillette, 2024-05-07; republished from Aero Magazine, 2017-03).

Law

  1. “Stephen Breyer for the defense” (Harvard Law Bulletin, 2024-05-03).

Mathematics

  1. “What makes 4D weirder than all other dimensions?” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2024-05-13).

Politics

  1. “Nayib Bukele shows how to dismantle a democracy and stay popular” (The Economist, 2023-07-20).
  2. “Robin DiAngelo’s misreading of Michel Foucault” by Jonathan Church (Quillette, 2020-11-25).

Science

  1. “Epic science inside a cubic millimeter of brain” by Anne J. Manning (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-09).

Society

  1. “Welcome to anti-woke hell” by Zaid Jilani (Persuasion, 2024-05-13).
  2. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-05-10). On “The anxious generation”, by Jonathan Haidt.
  3. “Jonathan Haidt blamed tech for teen anxiety. Managing the blowback has become a full-time job.” by Julie Jargon (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-10).
  4. “Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich” (The Economist, 2024-04-16). The story averages tell, and the stories they do not.
  5. “What people got wrong about the film Parasite” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2022-03-31).

Technology

  1. “Kate Crawford: A leading scholar and conscience for A.I.” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-05-12). 51m video recording with transcript.
  2. “The death (again) of the internet as we know it” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-11).

Other

  1. “The morning” by Joseph Kahn (The New York Times, 2024-05-12). Subtitled, “Journalism with impact”, it congratulates the New York Times for industry prizes, for self-styled “[c]overage that demands attention”. Awards and honors in the attention economy.
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4 May 2024

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).
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7 April 2024

Read : 2024-04-07

Articles for reading

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

Articles for reference

Athletics

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

Books

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

Business and investing

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

Cybersecurity

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

Economics

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

Education

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

Health, medicine, and wellness

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

Law

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

Mathematics

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

Politics

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

Science

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

Society

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

Technology

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

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

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

Other

  1. “What I’ve learned after two years on Substack (April 2024)” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-04-07).
  2. “‘Intellectually, it was sort of whiplash’” by Christine Perkins (Harvard Law Today, 2024-04-04). HLS’s annual “Why I changed my mind” panel. 57 m video recording at end of summary article.
  3. “Daniel Kahneman was a master of teasing questions” (The Economist, 2024-04-04).
  4. “Against agency” by Marilyn Simon (Quillette, 2024-04-04).
  5. “Achieving greatness without falling apart” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-03-28).
  6. “Yes, it’s exciting. Just don’t look at the sun.” by Anne J. Manning (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-04-01). On the upcoming total solar eclipse.
  7. “Warning for journalists: You’re more ignorant than you realize” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-03-25). A summary of a recent talk featuring Marty Baron.
  8. “Why do men dominate chess?” by Carole Hooven (Quillette, 2024-03-22).
  9. “In defense of craft” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-03-20).
  10. “Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-03-17).
  11. “The more you do, the less you accomplish” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-03-06).
  12. “Negotiating the irrational with Daniel Kahneman” by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy (The Harvard Gazette, 2021-12-06).
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6 December 2023

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).
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31 August 2023

Read : 2023-08-31

Articles for reference

Arts

  1. “AVA announces new resident artists” (AVA, 2023-07-05).

Athletics

  1. “Rethinking what it means to be the best in the world” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-08-31).
  2. “Nebraska volleyball sets world record for women’s sports attendance” by M.A. Voepel (ESPN, 2023-08-30).

Cybersecurity

  1. “NIST pubilshes draft post-quantum cryptography standards” by James Coker (Infosecurity Magazine, 2023-08-24).
  2. “WSJ Pro Cybersecurity explainer: What is quantum-safe encryption?” by Catherine Stupp (The Wall Street Journal, 2019-07-03).

Economics

  1. “Personal income and outlays, July 2023” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2023-08-31).
  2. “How can American house prices still be rising?” (The Economist, 2023-08-31).
  3. “Decoupling isn’t phoney” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-08-30).
  4. “ADP national employment report: August 2023” (ADP, 2023-08-30).
  5. “High bond yields imperil America’s financial stability” (The Economist, 2023-08-29).
  6. “Job opening and labor turnover—July 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-08-29).
  7. “Inflation: Progress and the path ahead” by Jerome H. Powell (US Federal Reserve, 2023-08-25).
  8. “Why China’s economy ran off the rails” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-08-21).
  9. “Imagining a Keynesian revival” by Robert Skidelsky (Project Syndicate, 2023-08-21).

Medicine

  1. “A quick update on the BA.2.86 variant” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-08-24).
  2. “Long-term long covid” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-08-21).

Politics

  1. “What is ‘friendshoring’?” (The Economist, 2023-08-30).

Science and technology

  1. “You bought an electric car. Why did your carbon footprint grow?” by Christy DeSmith (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-08-28).
  2. “New codes could make quantum computing 10 times more efficient” by Charlie Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2023-08-25).
  3. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-08-25). On LLMs.
  4. “SaaS prices jump 12% on average: report” by Alexei Alexis (CIO Dive, 2023-08-23).
  5. “Zoom enterprise growth tapers as it pushes AI services” by Robert Torres (CIO Dive, 2023-08-22).
  6. “IBM trains its LLM to read, rewrite COBOL apps” by Matt Ashare (CIO Dive, 2023-08-22).
  7. “Generative AI’s momentum casts uncertainty over the future of the IT service desk” by Linsey Wilkinson (CIO Dive, 2023-08-21).

Society

  1. “How individualism changed the economy” by kyla scanlon (Kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-08-31).
  2. “Is greed still good?” by Jeff Neal (Harvard Law Today, 2023-08-24). A review of the book “The problem of twelve”, by HLS Professor John Coates.
  3. “Visions of power in ‘Barbie’, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift” by Eileen O’Grady (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-08-23).
  4. “So what exactly makes Taylor Swift so great?” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-08-02).
  5. “The business of being Beyoncé” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2014-09-24).

Other

  1. “Stop resisting change” by Brad Stulberg (The New York Times, 2023-08-30).
  2. “A new book explains the intellectual legacy of four women” (The Economist, 2023-08-24).
  3. “A new way to think about practice” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-08-24). Practice as “an ongoing process of becoming”.
  4. “What I’m doing and how it’s going” by Daniel Miessler (Unsupervised Learning, 2023-08-19).
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2 April 2023

Read : 2023-04-02

Articles for reading

  1. “How deep is the rot in America’s banking industry?” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
  2. “What’s wrong with the banks” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
  3. “The Fed smothers capitalism in an attempt to save it” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
  4. “The death of Credit Suisse” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-03-25).
  5. “The Fed’s role in the bank failures” by Raghuram G. Rajan, Viral V. Acharya (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-28).
  6. “In era of bitter division, what would Socrates do?” by Clea Simon (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-27).

Articles for reference

Economics

  1. “The takeconomy” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-03-16).
  2. “What’s wrong with the banks” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
  3. “The Fed smothers capitalism in an attempt to save it” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
  4. “How deep is the rot in America’s banking industry?” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
  5. “The Federal Reserve must choose between inflation and market chaos” (The Economist, 2023-03-19).
  6. “Bailouts for everyone?” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-14). An interview with former Fed governor Daniel Tarullo.
  7. “More turbulence likely ahead after bank collapses” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-15). An interview with Lawrence H. Summers, former US Treasury Secretary.
  8. “SVB and the Fed” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-03-15).
  9. “The Fed’s $300B emergency response” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-03-18).
  10. “Fifty years of floating currencies” by Jeffrey Frankel (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-20).
  11. “How bad was the Silicon Valley Bank bailout?” by Paul Krugman (The New York Times, 2023-03-14).
  12. “What gets lost when you rescue markets” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-17).
  13. “Prospects of avoiding recessing fading” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-23).
  14. “When a bank fails, there’s always a villain” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-24).
  15. “Let the banks burn” by Yanis Varoufakis (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-24).
  16. “Price stability vs. financial stability?” by Willem H. Buiter (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-20).
  17. “The Fed must not flinch” by Michael R. Strain (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-21).
  18. “The death of Credit Suisse” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-03-25).
  19. “After Credit Suisse’s demise, attention turns to Deutsche Bank” (The Economist, 2023-03-24).
  20. “The Fed’s role in the bank failures” by Raghuram G. Rajan, Viral V. Acharya (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-28).
  21. “How bank oversight failed: The economy changed, regulators didn’t” by Andrew Ackerman, Angel Au-Yeung, Hannah Miao (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-24).
  22. “Policymakers face two nightmares: stubborn inflation and market chaos” (The Economist, 2023-03-23).
  23. “Will the recent banking chaos lead to an economic crash?” (The Economist, 2023-03-28).
  24. “As interest rates rose, banks did a balance-sheet switcheroo” by Jonathan Weil (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-29).
  25. “Why inflation persists” by Lars P. Feld (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-31).
  26. “What killed Signature Bank?” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-04-01).

Education

  1. “Why did America’s leaders stop caring about schools?” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
  2. “What we talk about when we talk about Math 55” by Sage S. Lattman (The Harvard Crimson, 2023-03-25).
  3. “The ascent of Chinese education” by Paul Massari (Harvard University GSAS, 2023-03-16).

Mathematics

  1. “Surprise computer science proof stuns mathematicians” by Leila Sloman (Quanta Magazine, 2023-03-21).
  2. “Is there math beyond the equal sign?” by Steven Strogatz (Quanta Magazine, 2023-03-22). 50m podcast interview with Eugenia Cheng.

Politics

  1. “Unions’ extension into politics was necessar—and contributed to their decline, says Harvard Law expert” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2023-03-16).
  2. “Emmanuel Macron’s government survives, but there is more trouble ahead” (The Economist, 2023-03-20).
  3. “Will Bibi break Israel?” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
  4. “How China benefits from another US banking crisis” by Stephen S. Roach (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-24).
  5. “America’s industrial policy is counterproductive” by Anne O. Krueger (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-22).
  6. “A TikTok ban may be just the beginning” by Christopher Mims (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-25).
  7. “Japan and Germany are again preparing for war” by Ian Baruma (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-24).
  8. “Lawmakers scold Fed over Silicon Valley Bank collapse” by Andrew Ackerman, David Harrison, Andrew Duehren (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-28).
  9. “Tick TikTok goes globalization” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-29).

Science and technology

  1. “Why China has edge on AI, what ancient emperors tell us about Xi Jinping” by Christy DeSmith (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-16).
  2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-03-24). Subtitled, “A federal judge spoke at Stanford Law School. Chaos ensued.”
  3. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-03-24).
  4. “Wormhole experiment called into question” by Charlie Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2023-03-23).
  5. “Artificial idiocy” by Slavoj Žižek (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-23).

Society

  1. “Why America is going to look more like Texas” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
  2. “Progressives need to embrace progress” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-03-22).
  3. “In era of bitter division, what would Socrates do?” by Clea Simon (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-27).
  4. “Culture belongs to everyone (and no one)” by Anna Lamb (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-23).

Other

  1. “Naughty nuns, flatulent monks, and other surprises of sacred medieval manuscripts” by Hunter Oatman-Stanford (Collectors Weekly, 2014-07-24). An interview with Kaitlin Manning.
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13 September 2022

Read : 2022-09-13

Articles for reading

  1. “How did Biden go from zero to hero so quickly?” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-09).
    The press always does this. There is a meta narrative that settles into the news coverage and that frames even how journalists look at developments.
    There’s very little context, very little attempt to put into a shape and a form and background that gives people a more complete understanding. They just go for the bottom line…
    If you think about political journalists, they read each other; they talk to each other a lot. There’s kind of a groupthink about where things are.
  2. “Breyer offers advice on being on losing side” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-09-12).
    Politics, deciding cases, or whatever you find controversial, that’s one thing. Human relations is something different.
    Do your job and do it as well as you can, and then maybe somebody will notice, and you’ll get a better job. Maybe they won’t, but at least you’ve done the work.
    the country would be better off if we just listen to each other and really hear what someone else has to say, and participate in public life

Articles for reference

Business

  1. “Gen Xers and Millennials, it’s time to lead. Are you ready?” by Lane Lambert (Harvard Business School : Working Knowledge, 2022-09-08).

Cryptocurrency

  1. “The ethereum merge and energy markets” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2022-09-10).
  2. “The future of crypto is at stake in ethereum’s switch” (The Economist, 2022-09-06).

Cybersecurity

  1. “CISA to hold meetings to flesh out cyber-incident reporting rules” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-09-07).
  2. “Why corporate boards need more cybersecurity expertise” by Michelle Lowry, Anthony Vance (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-09-07).
  3. “Trial of former Uber executive has security officials worried about liability for hacks” by Robert McMillan (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-09-08).

Economics

  1. “How to help with Europe’s energy crisis” by Mike Bird, Alice Fulwood, Soumaya Keynes (The Economist : Money Talks, 2022-09-07). 37m podcast.
  2. The ECB’s 2022-09-08 monetary policy statement and corresponding press conference (European Central Bank, 2022-09-08).
  3. “Pinochet’s economic policy is vastly overrated” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-09-07).
  4. “Governance for a healthy economy” by Dani Rodrik (Project Syndicate, 2022-09-09).
  5. “The Fed should wait and see” by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Dean Baker (Project Syndicate, 2022-09-12).
  6. “Isabella M. Weber says more…” (Project Syndicate, 2022-09-06). An interview with economist Isabella M. Weber.

Education

  1. “Harvard Grid to help researchers make leap from lab to startup” (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-09-07).

Law

  1. “Breyer offers advice on being on losing side” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-09-12).

Mathematics

  1. “How Shannon entropy imposes fundamental limits on communication” by Kevin Hartnett (Quanta Magazine, 2022-09-06).

Politics

  1. “Can Liz Truss fix Britain?” (The Economist, 2022-09-08).
  2. “Elizabeth II never laid down the heavy weight of the crown” (The Economist, 2022-09-08).
  3. “Requiem for an empire” by Robert Skidelsky (Project Syndicate, 2022-09-12).

Psychology

  1. “Psychologists are learning what religion has known for years” by David DeSteno (WIRED, 2021-09-14).

Science

  1. “Randall Munroe and the power of ‘what if?’” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-09-12).

Society

  1. “The end of real social networks” by Daron Acemoglu (Project Syndicate, 2022-09-07).
  2. “Why the bullshit-jobs thesis may be, well, bullshit” (The Economist, 2021-06-05).
  3. “Thoughts on the origins of wokeness” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-09-09).

Technology

  1. “The tech winners and losers of the pandemic” (The Economist, 2022-09-01).
  2. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2022-09-09). On TikTok.
  3. “Software is reorganizing the world” by Balaji Srinivasan (WIRED, 2013-11-22).
  4. “Harvard partners with Amazon Web Services in quantum internet push” (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-09-12). Interview with Professors Evelyn Hu, Marko Lončar, Mikhail Lukin, Hongkun Park.
    It’s only by taking that long view, making a commitment to collaboration—and the underlying trust that holds collaborations together—that the miracles actually manifest themselves.

Writing

  1. “What to read to become a better writer” (The Economist, 2022-09-09).
  2. “Politics and the English language” by George Orwell (The Orwell Foundation, via Horizon, 1946).
  3. “Why I write” by George Orwell (The Orwell Foundation, from Gangrel, 1946).

Other

  1. “Have a gas stove? How to reduce pollution that may harm health” by Wynne Armand (Harvard Health Publishing, 2022-09-07).
  2. “The perils of heroic individualism (and ideas for a more grounded society)” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2022-09-08). The author’s retrospective on his most-recent book, one year on. Or, the hungry ghost at the levels of the individual and (especially) society.
  3. “Obituary: Queen Elizabeth II” (BBC, 2022-09-08).
  4. “Books are physically changing because of inflation” (The Economist, 2022-09-08).
  5. “Taking the leap” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2022-09-10).
  6. “For every vacation-home fantasy, there is a harsh financial reality” by Veronica Dagher (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-09-12).
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27 July 2022

Read : 2022-07-27

Articles for reading:

  1. “In China, a three-digit score could dictate your place in society” by Mara Hvistendhal (WIRED, 2017-12-14).
  2. “Who is right about inflation?” by Brian Wallheimer (Chicago Booth, 2021-08-09).
  3. “Salacious celebrity tell-all as a vehicle of truth” by Sam Zuniga-Levy (The Harvard-Radcliffe Institute, 2022-06-29).
  4. “Meet the lobbyist next door” by Benjamin Wofford (WIRED, 2022-07-14).
  5. “9.1% inflation” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2022-07-16).
  6. “A radical cure: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil on the need for roots” by Scott Remer (Philosophy Now, 2018).
  7. “A question about rotating line helps reveal what makes real numbers special” by Kevin Hartnett (Quanta Magazine, 2022-07-26). On the Kakeya conjecture. Attempts to understand the problem lead some mathematicians to the world of p-adic numbers.

Articles for reference:

Blogging

  1. “How to write a successful Substack” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-07-10).
  2. “So you want to start a blog…” by Daniel Miessler (Daniel Miessler, 2019-11-09).

Books

  1. “Salacious celebrity tell-all as a vehicle of truth” by Sam Zuniga-Levy (The Harvard-Radcliffe Institute, 2022-06-29).
  2. “Some dads are super, some are stupid. Meet Mr. Neither.” (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-07-13). Q&A with Keith Gessen, author of the book “Raising Raffi”.
  3. “George Orwell’s 1940 review of ‘Mein Kampf’” by George Orwell (The New English Weekly, 1940-03-21).

Business

  1. “Former QuantumScape, Tesla executive joins battery startup working on nickel rival” by Gabrielle Coppola (Bloomberg, 2022-07-21).
  2. “VW board ousts CEO Herbert Diess after pivot to electric vehicles” by William Boston, Georgi Kantchev (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-07-22).

Climate change

  1. “How we will fight climate change” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-07-20).

Critical race theory (CRT)

  1. “Jason Stanley on critical race theory and why it matters” by Jason Stanley (The Economist, 2021-05-24).
  2. “Critical race theory is appropriate in universities, but not schools, says Bonnie Kerrigan Snyder” by Bonnie Kerrigan Snyder (The Economist, 2022-07-14).
  3. “Is critical race theory taught in schools?” by Tamara Gilkes Borr (The Economist, 2022-07-18). 43m podcast. Part 2 of 3.
  4. “What is the fight over critical race theory really about” by Tamara Gilkes Borr (The Economist, 2022-07-22). 51m podcast. Part 3 of 3.

Cybersecurity

  1. “New ultra-stealthy Linux backdoor isn’t your everyday malware discovery” by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica, 2022-06-09). Linked in this post by Bruce Schneier.
  2. “Log4j vulnerabilities remain ‘endemic’, says US DHS” by Richard Chirgwin (IT News, 2022-07-18).

Economics : Debt

  1. “Does the national debt matter?” by David Andolfatto (The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2020-12-04).
  2. “Could inflation be a good think for governments in debt?” by Adrian Ma, Wailin Wong (NPR, 2022-05-13).
  3. “The ECB’s masterplan to manipulate markets” (The Economist, 2022-07-14).
  4. “The EU’s Hamiltonian moment” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2022-07-23).
  5. “The 53 fragile emerging economies” (The Economist, 2022-07-20).

Economics : Inflation

  1. “There’s some good news in the bad inflation data” by Rick Newman (Yahoo Finance, 2022-07-14).
  2. “‘A dangerous level of groupthink’” by Benjamin Hart (New York Magazine : The Intelligencer, 2022-07-14).
  3. “9.1% inflation” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2022-07-16).
  4. “The energy crisis will deepen” by Daniel Yergin (Project Syndicate, 2022-07-11).
  5. “American inflation tops forecasts yet again, adding to recession risks” (The Economist, 2022-07-13).
  6. “ECB raises rates by half-percentage point in first rate hike since 2011” by Tom Fairless (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-07-21).
  7. “What CEOs are saying: ‘We see inflation deeply entrenched’” by George Stahl (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-07-23).
  8. “Why doesn’t the Fed just hike 200bp all at once?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-07-25).

Economics : Investing and speculation

  1. “On bullshit in investing” by Benn Eifert (Noahpinion, 2022-07-11).
  2. “So what happened to crypto?” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-07-13).
  3. “Stripe cuts internal valuation by 28%” by Berber Jin, Peter Rudegeair (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-07-14).
  4. “Investors wave goodbye to negative-yielding debt as central banks fight inflation” by Caitlin McCabe (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-07-26). I don’t understand how the article defines “negative-yielding debt”. Given the definition, the article provides a striking graph of global negative-yielding debt: From 0.02T USD in early 2014, it grew to over 12T USD in mid 2016, fell to around 7.5T USD in 2016–2018, then peaked around 16.8T USD in August 2018 and 18.4T USD in December 2020. The graph shows it is currently around 2.2T USD. The article cites JPMorgan Chase estimates that “Japan account[s] for 84% of all negative-yielding government debt”.

Economics : Jobs

  1. “Unions are now a lifestyle choice for some young, aspirational workers, says Walter Olson” by Walter Olson (The Economist, 2022-07-18).

Economics : Other

  1. “How higher interest rates will squeeze government budgets” (The Economist, 2022-07-12).
  2. “China property market shudders as buyers threaten to stop mortgage payments” by Cao Li, Rebecca Feng (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-07-14).
  3. “The war economy” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-07-14).
  4. “Interview: Leah Boustan, economist” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-07-16).
  5. “The wreck of Bidenomics” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-07-17).
  6. “Nutty macroeconomic theories will ruin your country’s economy” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-07-19).
  7. “How to manage a balance-sheet in troubled times” (The Economist, 2022-07-19).
  8. “The second derivative of vibes” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2022-07-14).
  9. “The changing economic regime” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2022-07-21).
  10. “Good links: Economic levers, education, and pokémon” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2022-07-23).
  11. “Why can’t America build trains?” by Eric Goldwyn (Noahpinion, 2022-07-21).
  12. “Why a strong dollar is a double-edged sword for the U.S. economy” (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-07-26). 6m video. The presentation states that (i) 6.9T USD are “held by 149 countries and other entities”, according to the IMF (reference?); and (ii) “a strong [US] dollar exports inflation” to other countries.
  13. “Did pandemic stimulus funds spur the rise of ‘meme stocks’?” by Rachel Layne (Harvard Business School : Working Knowledge, 2022-07-21).
    About $100 billion of the $814 billion the US government disbursed through stimulus payments found its way to the stock market.
  14. “The economic mess we’re in” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-07-25).
  15. “Why inflation is on the way down” by Donald L. Luskin (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-07-25).
  16. “Chairman Bernanke’s college lecture series: The Federal Reserve and the financial crisis, Part 1” by Ben Bernanke (YouTube, 2012-03-20). 1h13m video. Part one of a four-part series.
  17. “FOMC press conference July 27, 2022” by Federal Reserve (YouTube, 2022-07-27). 56m video. The Fed provides a full transcript (including Q&A) here.

Education

  1. “Education doesn’t work 2.0” by Freddie deBoer (Freddie deBoer, 2022-07-11).
  2. “Parents: Are you putting too much college pressure on your kid?” by Usable Knowledge (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2022-07-14). Not only parents, but also teachers, school administrators, college administrators, standardized testing services, college-ranking publications,…. It’s an all-society issue.

Fashion

  1. “This summer, stars are going vintage on the red carpet” by Christian Allaire (Vogue, 2022-07-13).
  2. “How this season of ‘Westworld’ nails Roaring ’20s style” by Christian Allaire (Vogue, 2022-07-18).

Health and wellness

  1. “How the kids are getting to all right” by Bree Barton (Zócalo, 2022-07-14).
  2. “As BA.5 spreads, how long will a prior covid-19 infection protect you?” by Sumathi Reddy (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-07-19).
  3. “Why the omicron offshoot BA.5 is a big deal” by Brenda Goodman (CNN, 2022-07-18).
  4. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2022-07-21). Subtitled, “We look at what the latest Covid surge means for the country”.
  5. “How cesarean births became a ‘global epidemic’” by Jacueline H. Wolf (Zócalo, 2018-12-03).
  6. “How to overcome loneliness” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2022-07-21).
  7. “‘Weekend warriors’ can make up for missed exercise during week” (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2022-07-22). A case of misleading hyper-reductionism in headlines?
    The study followed the exercise routines of more than 350,000 U.S. adults for over a decade. Researchers found that as long as people accomplished 75 minutes of vigorous activity or 150 minutes of moderate activity per week—no matter when they did so—they had lower death rates from any cause than physically inactive participants.
  8. “Monkeypox explained: How to protect yourself and what to watch out for” by Dustin Jones (NPR, 2022-07-24).

Mathematics

  1. “A question about rotating line helps reveal what makes real numbers special” by Kevin Hartnett (Quanta Magazine, 2022-07-26). On the Kakeya conjecture.

Politics

  1. “How to judge the words of a would-be prime minister” (The Economist, 2022-07-10).
  2. “The Democrats need to wake up and stop pandering to their extremes” (The Economist, 2022-07-14).
  3. “Meet the lobbyist next door” by Benjamin Wofford (WIRED, 2022-07-14).
  4. “Is it time for Californians to vote in Florida and Texas?” by Joe Matthews (Zócalo, 2022-07-19). Hmm.

Public transportation

  1. “American public transport faces a post-pandemic reckoning” (The Economist, 2022-07-21).

Science and technology

  1. “The genius neuroscientist who might hold the key to true AI” by Shaun Raviv (WIRED, 2018-11-13).
  2. “On the dangers of cryptocurrencies and the uselessness of blockchain” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2022-06-24).

Social issues

  1. “The morning” by German Lopez (The New York Times, 2022-07-15). Subtitled “America’s homelessness crisis is getting worse”.
  2. “A step toward a more gender-inclusive Harvard” by Gray Milkowski (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-07-14).
  3. “A radical cure: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil on the need for roots” by Scott Remer (Philosophy Now, 2018).
  4. “The strange disappearance of cooperation in America” by Peter Turchin (Clio Dynamica, 2013-06-21).
  5. “The strange disappearance of civic America” by Robert D. Putnam (1995).
    Their members’ ties are to common symbols and ideologies, but not to each other.
  6. “Have better conversations with friends—or anyone” by Elizabeth Bernstein (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-07-26). Along with clarifying “better” as “deeper”, the title becomes, “Have deeper conversations”. I agree with the suggestions to “[a]void questions with one-word answers” and not to hurry intimacy. Brings to mind the following wisdom:
    You can’t hurry love
    No, you just have to wait
    You gotta trust, give it time
    No matter how long it takes
    (They’re not called The Supremes for nothing!) See also Neil Postman’s critique of social science in “The end of education”.

Sports

  1. “The super spikes era has brought a boom in four-minute miles” by Rachel Bachman (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-07-18).

Sri Lanka : Political demonstrations (2022)

  1. “The morning” by German Lopez, Emily Schmall (The New York Times, 2022-07-24). Subtitled, “Today, we explain what led to Sri Lanka’s recent protests”.
    They treated these homes [the “presidential palace” and “the prime minister’s official residence”] like museums. They were concerned about not damaging any property.
  2. “Protesters storm Sri Lanka President House, set PM’s residence on fire” (The Tribune, 2022-07-09).

Other

  1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2022-07-15). On Elon Musk and Twitter (again).
  2. “The post-Roe world” by Nancy Kathryn Walecki (Harvard Magazine, 2022-07-18).
  3. “Justice Stephen Breyer returns to Harvard Law School” (Harvard Law Today, 2022-07-15).
  4. “Four things I got wrong since I started this blog” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-07-25).
    In each of these cases, I’ll try to explain what I got wrong and why, and where possible I’ll also try to point to someone who got it right. It’s good to diversify your sources of opinions and analysis!
    Holding oneself accountable, with the goals of transparency and improved understanding. I respect that.
  5. “7 rules for persuasive dissent” by Todd B. Kashdan (Harvard Business Review, 2022-07-22).
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6 December 2021

Read : 2021-12-06

Today’s selection of articles:

  1. “A warrior then, a warrior now” by Juan Siliezar (The Harvard Gazette, 2021-12-03).
  2. “Vaccine reduces transmission in breakthrough cases” by Nicole Rura (The Harvard Gazette, 2021-12-01).
  3. “Debating the future of Roe” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2021-12-03).
  4. “Did we fail the blue eyes, brown eyes experiment — or did it fail us?” by Stephen G. Bloom (Zócalo, 2021-12-06).
  5. “The omicron situation, Week 2” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2021-12-06).
  6. “Population impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants with enhanced transmissibility and/or partial immune escape” by Mary Bushman et al. (Cell, 2021-11-26). Page includes link to free article download (pdf).
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