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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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10 May 2024

Read : 2024-05-10

Articles for reference

Arts

  1. “Met Gala 2024 red carpet looks” (Vogue, 2024-05-07).

Athletics

  1. “The need for peak experiences in a superficial world” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-05-09).

Business and investing

  1. “US businesses want to hire more tech workers this year, CompTIA says” by Roberto Torres (CIO Dive, 2024-05-08).
  2. “Companies are just a graph of algorithms” by Daniel Miessler (Unsupervised Learning, 2024-05-06). In the same way that schooling a child, or raising a child, or making a child, is a graph of algorithms. You’ve probably never seen your child (or procreative activities) in this way, but AI soon will.

Cybersecurity

  1. “68 tech, security vendors commit to secure-by-design practices” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-05-09).
  2. “FBI warns hackers’ use of AI is growing. So is the Bureau’s.” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-09).
  3. “Open-source cybersecurity is a ticking time bomb” by Lucas Ropek (Gizmodo, 2024-05-08).
  4. “China-linked attackers are successfully targeting network security devices, worrying officials” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-05-07).
  5. “Stealing cookies: Researchers describe how to bypass modern authentication” by Derek B. Johnson (CyberScoop, 2024-05-06).
  6. “Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose” by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica, 2024-05-06).
  7. “Tech giants agree to build security into software products” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-06).
  8. “US government is asking big tech to promise better cybersecurity” by Eric Geller (WIRED, 2024-05-01).
  9. “Unearthing APT44: Russia’s notorious cyber sabotage unit Sandworm” by Gabby Roncone et al. (Google Cloud > Mandiant, 2024-04-17).
  10. “Budget cuts, layoffs add to pressure on cyber teams” by Catherine Stupp (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-10-31).

Economics

  1. “The macro arsonists” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-08).
  2. “IT unemployment rate falls slightly amid broader hiring slowdown” by Belle Lin (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-04).
  3. “The global financial system is in danger of fragmenting” (The Economist, 2024-05-03). Part one of a six-part series; subsequent parts linked in the article.

Education

  1. “College loans are about to get more expensive after today’s Treasury auction” by Sam Goldfarb (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-08).
  2. “AI copilots are changing how coding is taught” by Rina Diane Caballar (IEEE Spectrum, 2024-05-02).

Health, medicine, and wellness

  1. “The morning” by Ellen Barry (The New York Times, 2024-05-06). Subtitled, “Too much talk?”
  2. “Akiko Iwasaki: The immunology of covid and the future” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-05-04).
  3. “Is there a ‘best’ sleep position?” by Kim Rivera Huston-Weber (Houston Methodist, 2024-05-02).

Mathematics

  1. “A Rosetta stone for mathematics” by Kevin Hartnett (Quanta Magazine, 2024-05-06).
  2. “Much ado about zero” by Anil Venkatesh (AMS, 2024-??-??).

Politics

  1. “The morning” by Hannah Beech (The New York Times, 2024-05-08). Subtitled, “A hidden war”. On the fighting in Myanmar.
  2. “America’s semiconductor policy is missing a key piece” by Steven Glinert (Noahpinion, 2024-05-05).

Science

  1. “Dark energy and dark matter: What’s the difference?” by Charlie Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2024-05-06).

Society

  1. “The morning” by Kevin Roose (The New York Times, 2024-05-09). Subtitled, “My A.I. buddies”.
  2. “When you destroy the tools of creativity” by kyla scanlon (Kyla’s Newsletter, 2024-05-08). Subtitled, “Lessons from Apple and what Bluey can teach us about trust and agency”.
  3. “The test of the institutions” by Sam Kahn (Persuasion, 2024-05-08).
  4. “The canary in the public library” by Stephen Akey (Persuasion, 2024-05-06).
  5. “How to recognize a psyop in three easy steps” by Annalee Newitz (The Hypothesis, 2024-05-05).

Technology

  1. “The one thing that’s holding back the heat pump” by Matt Simon (WIRED, 2024-05-06).

Other

  1. “Encampment in Harvard Yard” by Alan M. Garber (Harvard Univerity > Office of the President, 2024-05-06).
  2. “Memory champion answers questions from Twitter” (WIRED, 2022-12-20). Featuring Nelson Dellis. 17m video recording with transcript.
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13 April 2024

Read : 2024-04-13

Articles for reading

  1. “The Americans who long for Caesar” by Jeffery Tyler Syck (Persuasion, 2024-04-10).

Articles for reference

Athletics

  1. “Stop over-optimizing everything” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-04-10).

Books

  1. “How a science fiction obsession led me to psychological war” by Annalee Newitz (The Hypothesis, 2024-04-09).
  2. “What to read to understand how economists think” (The Economist, 2022-08-09).

Economics

  1. “Producer price indexes—March 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-04-11).
  2. “Consumer price index—March 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-04-10).
  3. “When will Americans see those interest-rate cuts?” (The Economist, 2024-04-10).
  4. “The rich world faces a brutal spending crunch” (The Economist, 2024-04-09).
  5. “Why economists are at war over inequality” (The Economist, 2023-11-30).

Education

  1. “Return to required testing” by Dean Hopi Hoekstra (Harvard FAS, 2024-04-11).
  2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-04-08). Subtitled, “We’re covering a university that combines diversity and excellence…”.

Mathematics

  1. “Episode 204: Math—it’s not just numbers” (Harvard Radcliffe Institute > Born Curious, 2024-03-14). 52m audio recording with transcript.

Politics

  1. “Vinay Prasad on what went wrong with COVID” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-04-13). 60m audio recording with transcript.
  2. “The Americans who long for Caesar” by Jeffery Tyler Syck (Persuasion, 2024-04-10).
  3. “Forgiveness plan: Who qualifies and how it would work” by Andrew Restuccia, Oyin Adedoyin (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-08).
  4. “Biden’s latest lawless student loan forgiveness” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-08).

Science

  1. “Why non-neuron brain cells are sparking excitement” by Yasemin Saplakoglu (Quanta Magazine, 2024-04-09).

Society

  1. “New York Times bosses seek to quash rebellion in the newsroom” by Alexandra Bruell (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-12).
  2. “Social media, not the economy, is harming teen mental health” by Jonathan Haidt (Persuasion, 2024-04-12).
  3. “What Rush hath wrought” by Daniel Oppenheimer (Persuasion, 2024-04-11).

Technology

  1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-04-12). On government regulation of AI.
  2. “Big tech unites around AI workforce training for 100M workers” by Lindsey Wilkinson (CIO Dive, 2024-04-08).

Other

  1. “My fantastic voyage at Quanta Magazine” by Thomas Lin (Quanta Magazine, 2024-04-12).
  2. “What I learned from Daniel Kahneman” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-09).
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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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27 February 2024

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.
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16 January 2024

Read : 2024-01-16

Articles for reading

  1. “Parentheses, brackets, and braces” (Practical Typography, ????). A clear statement of which is which—and bonus clarification on when (not) to adjust them for italics, etc. (How can you not love an article that ends with the line, “In situations where you have a roman character next to a bold or italic character, the only cure is vigilance.”)
  2. “Risk-aversion is killing romance” by Freya India (2024-01-02).

Articles for reference

Arts

  1. “The 18 best dressed stars at the 2024 Emmy awards” by Christian Allaire (Vogue, 2024-01-15).
  2. “Critics Choice Awards 2024: Fasion—Live from the red carpet” by Hannah Jackson (Vogue, 2024-01-15).

Books

  1. “Book review: Chaotic childhoods” by Stephanos Bibas (The University of Chicago Law Review, ????). A review of “Troubled”, by Rob Henderson.

Cybersecurity

  1. “Progress Software’s MOVEit meltdown: uncovering the fallout” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-01-16).
  2. “Improving Shor’s algorithm” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2024-01-05).
  3. “Cryptography after the aliens land” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2018-09).

Economics

  1. “America’s new business boom” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2024-01-14).
  2. “Producer price indexes—December 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-01-12).
  3. “Consumer price index—December 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-01-11).
  4. “Nation’s top economists are short-term happy, long-term glum” by Gabriel T. Rubin (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-01-07).
  5. “Is the Chinese miracle over?” by Yao Yang (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-04).
  6. “Has China’s economy peaked?” by Zhang Jun (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-03).
  7. “The global economy is not out of the woods” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-03).

Education

  1. “Alumni committee announces candidates for Harvard board positions” (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-01-12).
  2. “Is Harvard Business School too woke?” (The Economist, 2024-01-10).
  3. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-01-08). Subtitled, “We’re covering the debate over standardized tests in college admissions…”.
  4. “The misguided war on the SAT” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-01-07).
  5. “How much of modern academia is waste?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-01-07). Paywalled.

Law

  1. “The case for the Supreme Court to overturn Chevron deference” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-01-15).

Mathematics

  1. “The mathematician who finds the poetry in math and the math in poetry” by Leila Sloman (Quanta Magazine, 2024-01-12). On Sarah Hart.
  2. “Chapter eleven: If–then arguments” by David Carl Wilson (University of Minnesota, ????).

Medicine

  1. “SOTP: State-of-the-pandemic” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-01-05).

Politics

  1. “The morning” by Nate Cohn (The New York Times, 2024-01-16). Subtitled, “We’re covering the Republican nomination campaign…”.
  2. “The next battle in higher ed may strike at its soul: scholarship” by Anemona Hartocollis (The New York Times, 2024-01-14).
  3. “The morning” by David Leonhardt, Ian Prasad Philbrick (The New York Times, 2024-01-12). Subtitled, “We’re covering tomorrow’s election in Taiwan…”.
  4. “Why is America’s Congress being briefed on UFOs?” (The Economist, 2024-01-11).
  5. “What killed US–China engagement?” by Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-04).

Society

  1. “What it takes to build democratic institutions” by Daron Acemoglu (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-16).
  2. “Rob Henderson on foster care, social class and the new American elite” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-01-13). 1h38m audio recording with full transcript.
  3. “Lights out in America” by John Lloyd (Quillette, 2024-01-05). Subtitled, “The cowardice at America’s most important liberal publications is damaging democracy.” Paywalled.
  4. “How to win the culture war” (The Economist, 2024-01-04). On Dave Chappelle’s “The dreamer”.
  5. “Clarifying America’s great inequality debate” by Daron Acemoglu (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-03).
  6. “Thorstein Veblen’s theory of the leisure class—a status update” by Rob Henderson (Quillette, 2019-11-16).

Other

  1. “Parentheses, brackets, and braces” (Practical Typography, ????).
  2. “Choosing well in a world of ultra-processed everything” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-01-09).
  3. “Lessons I learned the hard way” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-01-07).
  4. “Western Europe’s forgotten nightmare” by Jonathan Kay (Quillette, 2024-01-06). On Rachel Chrastil’s book “Bismarck’s war: The Franco-Prussian war and the making of modern Europe”. Paywalled.
  5. “Elon Musk has used illegal drugs, worrying leaders at Tesla and SpaceX” by Emily Glazer, Kirsten Grind (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-01-06).
  6. “Lessons I learned the hard way” by Rob Henderson (The Free Press, 2023-12-31).
  7. “Risk-aversion is killing romance” by Freya India (2024-01-02).
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27 October 2023

Read : 2023-10-27

Articles for reading

  1. “Love after life: Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman’s extraordinary letter to his departed wife” by Maria Popova (The Marginalian, 2017-10-17).
  2. “Who owns the GOP?” by Theda Skocpol (Dissent Magazine, 2016-02-03).

Articles for reference

Athletics

  1. “Graham Blanks can really motor” by Christy DeSmith (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-10-26).

Coding

  1. “Documenting Python code: A complete guide” by James Mertz (Real Python, ????).

Cybersecurity

  1. “LinkedIn tests generative AI to field cybersecurity questions from employees and suppliers” by Catherine Stupp (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-10-25).
  2. “The race to save our secrets from the computers of the future” by Zach Montague (The New York Times, 2023-10-22).
  3. “The top cybersecurity conferences to attend in 2024” by Naomi Eide (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-10-13).
  4. “Generative AI could revolutionize email—for hackers” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-09-06).
  5. “Don’t let Google manage your passwords” by Neil J. Rubenking (PCMag, 2023-04-30).

Economics

  1. “Personal income and outlays, September 2023” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2023-10-27).
  2. “Great news about American wealth” by Noah Smith (2023-10-27).
  3. “America’s record wealth boom” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-10-26).
  4. “Gross domestic product, third quarter 2023 (advance estimate)” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2023-10-26).
  5. “What can the Fed do about the deficit? Nothing” by Greg Ip (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-10-25).

Medicine

  1. “How health-care costs stopped rising” (The Economist, 2023-10-26).
  2. “The virus takes a detour in its evolutionary arc” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-10-25). “The virus” being SARS-CoV-2.

Politics

  1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-10-27). On regulating “big tech”.
  2. “Can America handle two wars, and maybe a third?” (The Economist, 2023-10-24).
  3. “Who owns the GOP?” by Theda Skocpol (Dissent Magazine, 2016-02-03).

Science and technology

  1. “A new generation of mathematicians pushes prime number barriers” by Erica Klarreich (Quanta Magazine, 2023-10-26).
  2. “Biden moves to embrace AI as national security tool in executive order” by John D. McKinnon, Sabrina Siddiqui, Dustin Volz (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-10-25).
  3. “The world wants to regulate AI, but does not quite know how” (The Economist, 2023-10-24).

Society

  1. “Other countries put lives before guns. Why can’t we?” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-10-26).
  2. “The TikTok girl is right: Modernity and the 9-to-5” by kyla scanlon (Kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-10-26).
  3. “The American socialist worldview is just totally broken (repost)” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-10-26).
  4. “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the rich” by Robert Skidelsky (Project Syndicate, 2023-10-24). On the books “The new leviathans” by John Gray and “Technofeudalism” by Yanis Varoufakis.
  5. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-10-24). Subtitled, “We’re covering the state of the American dream…”—by which Mr. Leonhardt means “my new and first book, in which I am well pleased, and which covers my views on this topic”.
  6. “America needs a bigger, better bureaucracy” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-10-22).
  7. “Fighting misinformation one tweet at a time” by Giulia Cambieri (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2023-10-20).

Other

  1. “The key to a strong identity: Diversity your sense of self” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-10-26).
  2. “CEO morning routines are bananas. So I tried a few.” by Ray A. Smith (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-10-25).
  3. “Sign acts: The weird, wonderful world of prophetic communication” by Whitney Woollard (BibleProject, 2018).
  4. “Love after life: Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman’s extraordinary letter to his departed wife” by Maria Popova (The Marginalian, 2017-10-17).
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21 October 2023

Read : 2023-10-21

Articles for reading

  1. “Stop hovering and let kids play—their mental health depends on it” by Steve Magness, Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-10-19). An appeal for unstructured play in the spirit of Peter Gray’s 2013 article “The play deficit“.
  2. “The quest to quantify quantumness” by Charlie Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2023-10-19). A helpful reminder that “quantum computing” involves algorithms, not just computers.

Articles for reference

Athletics

  1. “Funny thing happened on way to med school” by Danny Laughery (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-10-19).

Cybersecurity

  1. “Almost 42K Cisco IOS XE devices exploited, no patch available” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-10-19).

Economics

  1. “The 1970s economic theory that needs to die” by Rogé Karma (The Atlantic, 2023-10-20). Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee: What needs to die are poorly informed, poorly reasoned, baldly biased articles. (Don’t hold your breath.) Subtitled: Turns out you can talk to Fed presidents without sharing the privilege or deep insight with your readers. Will writers accept the critical news?
  2. “Opening remarks” by Jerome Powell (US Federal Reserve, 2023-10-19).
  3. “Monetary policy in a surplus economy” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-10-19).
  4. “Why America’s banks need more capital” (The Economist, 2023-10-19).
  5. “How free-market economics reshaped legal systems the world over” (The Economist, 2023-10-19).
  6. “Do Amazon and Google lock out competition?” (The Economist, 2023-10-19).

Health and medicine

  1. “Peter Attia: Our conversation about his hit book OUTLIVE, Medicine 3.0, promoting healthspan, GLP-1 drugs and more” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-10-19). 43m audio podcast with transcript.
  2. “How to get unlonely” by Maura Kelly (Harvard Public Health Magazine, 2023-10-17).

Politics

  1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-10-20). Subtitled, “We’re covering the evidence related to the Gaza hospital explosion…”.
  2. “Hamas’s hospital lie and the laws of war” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-10-18).

Science and technology

  1. “Thoughts on techno-optimism” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-10-20). Clarification of thoughts instigated by Marc Andreessen’s “The techno-optimist manifesto”.
  2. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-10-20). Criticism instigated by Marc Andreessen’s “The techno-optimist manifesto”.
  3. “The techno-optimist manifesto” by Marc Andreessen (a16z, 2023-10-16).
  4. “The quest to quantify quantumness” by Charlie Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2023-10-19).

Society

  1. “Chetty, Sandel on what’s crushing American Dream” by Samantha Laine Perfas (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-10-19).
  2. “Stop hovering and let kids play—their mental health depends on it” by Steve Magness, Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-10-19).
  3. “How to cancel cancel culture” (The Economist, 2023-10-19).
  4. “Speak out on Israel–Hamas war or stay quiet? Both are risky, colleges find” by Douglas Belkin, Melissa Korn (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-10-19).
  5. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-10-19). Subtitled “We’re covering the great American investment slump…”. Leonhardt blames insufficient (public) investment for increased travel times. I suspect choices in public investment play a significant role. I hope the article (which Leonhardt wrote) promoted in the final paragraph discusses other potentially relevant changes in society over the fifty-year reference period he proposes, like changes in population (in the US, 208 million in 1971 versus 332 million in 2021), population density, living patterns (e.g., where people live relative to where they work), and how Americans weigh trade-offs between individual and collective benefit.

Other

  1. “What it means to explain the economy” by kyla scanlon (Kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-10-20).
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4 September 2023

Read : 2023-09-04

Articles for reference

Arts

  1. “The morning” by Lauren Jackson (The New York Times, 2023-09-03). Subtitled “Mormonism has made successful young adult authors, thanks to a unique blend of support fro religious writers and an emphasis on family entertainment.”

Book : “The meritocracy trap”, by Daniel Markovits

  1. “How meritocracy worsens inequality—and makes even the rich miserable” by Ben Mattison (Yale Insights, 2020-01-09).
  2. “Book review: The meritocracy trap by Daniel Markovits” by Richard V. Reeves (Brookings, 2019-09-24).

Cybersecurity

  1. “Barracuda patch bypassed by novel malware from China-linked threat group” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-09-01).
  2. “Malwarebytes, within a week, acquires a company and reportedly cuts staff” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-08-31).
  3. “CrowdStrike soars on security tool consolidation demand” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-08-31).

Economics

  1. “America’s weakening labor market” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-09-02).
  2. “The employment situation—August 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-09-01). Headline numbers (dig for details):
    • Net change (mom) in nonfarm payroll employment:
      • August: +187k
      • July: +157k (revised down from +187k)
      • June: +105k (revised down from +185k)
    • Unemployment rate: 3.8% (up from 3.5% in July)
      • The mom change in “not in labor force”, -525k, is roughly the mom change in unemployment, +514k (cf. historic data at FRED; in particular, data from August 2022 showed mom changes of -0.55% NILF and +0.2% unemployment, compared to -0.52% NILF and +0.3% unemployment in August 2023)
    • Change in average hourly earnings (private nonfarm payrolls): 0.2% mom, 4.3% yoy

Investing

  1. “A Yale economist read 50 personal finance books. He’s got some notes.” by Susie Allen (Yale Insights, 2022-10-18).

Mathematics

  1. “Why mathematical proof is a social construct” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2023-08-31). Interview with Andrew Granville.

Medicine

  1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-09-01). Subtitled, “We offer a guide to fall vaccine shots…”.

Science and technology

  1. “Interview: Jean Twenge, psychologist” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-09-01).
  2. “The hidden brain connections between our hands and tongues” by R. Douglas Fields (Quanta Magazine, 2023-08-28).

Society

  1. “By abandoning civics, colleges helped create the culture wars” by Debra Satz, Dan Edelstein (The New York Times, 2023-09-03).
  2. “Inequality and democracy” by Joseph E. Stiglitz (Project Syndicate, 2023-08-31).

Other

  1. “The Economist this weekend” by Stephanie Studer (The Economist, 2023-09-02). Subtitled “A special edition on food”. A portal to articles about food in The Economist.
  2. “Harvard Business professor analyzes TV and movie negotiations scenes” (Wall Street Journal, 2023-09-01). 10m video. HLS Professor Guhan Subramanian analyzes.
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1 August 2023

Read : 2023-08-01

Articles for reference

Athletics

  1. “Finding your optimum zone to perform to your potential” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-04-13).

Cybersecurity

  1. “Cybersecurity chat with Jim Donald former CEO of Starbucks” (Lacework, 2023-08-01). 48m video interview. Care about people. Tell stories.
  2. “Hackers are infecting Call of Duty players with a self-spreading malware” by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch, 2023-07-27).
  3. “Fact sheet: Biden–Harris administration publishes the National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan” (The White House, 2023-07-13).

Economics

  1. “Job openings and labor turnover—June 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-08-01).
  2. “Sticking the soft landing” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-07-29).
  3. “The most important new disinflation indicator” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-07-15).
  4. “Grading the economic schools of thought” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-07-12).

Education

  1. “Letter from the FAS Dean” by Hopi Hoekstra (Harvard University, 2023-08-01).
    I always find this time of year exhilarating—imagining opportunities to learn and explore, and finding new paths to see where they might lead in the year ahead.
  2. “Some thoughts and evidence on racial preferences in admissions” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-01-26).

Investing

  1. “Five books on the best approaches to being an investor” (The Economist, 2023-04-26).
  2. “The gamification of finance” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2022-01-29).

Mathematics

  1. “Math that lets you think locally but act globally” by Patrick Honner (Quanta Magazine, 2023-07-21).

Science and technology

  1. “Hyperscalers bet on costly new data centers to capture growing market ” by Matt Ashare (CIO Dive, 2023-07-14).
  2. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-06-09). On Apple’s Vision Pro.
  3. “Interview: Andrew Gelman, statistician” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-03-03).
  4. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2022-01-28). On covidtests.gov.
  5. “Ray Kurzweil pulls out all the stops (and pills) to survive to the singularity” by Gary Wolf (WIRED, 2008-03-24).

Society

  1. “Gen Z and financial nihilism” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-07-13).

Other

  1. “The long-lost miracle supplement” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-07-13).
  2. “Predicting potential is messy” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-06-15).
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