Read : 2024-06-06

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “NYC Ballet’s Mira Nadon on George Balanchine’s Rubies: Anatomy of a dance” by nycballet (YouTube, 2023-09-06).
2. “Why dancers love performing Balanchine’s ‘Jewels’” by Royal Opera House (YouTube, 2017-04-12).

Books

1. “Imposing order on grief” by Iona Italia (Quillette, 2024-05-22). A review of Rob Henderson’s book “Troubled”.

Business and investing

1. “Should you buy expensive stocks?” (The Economist, 2024-06-05).
2. “Bit Tech companies unplug stock market from reality” by James Mackintosh (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-04).
3. “How to write the perfect CV” (The Economist, 2024-05-30).
4. “When to sell your stocks” (The Economist, 2024-05-30).
5. “AI skills bring higher pay, more interview offers, study says” by Carolyn Crist (CIO Dive, 2024-05-24).
6. “ISC2 reveals global ISC2 certification salaries” (ISC2, 2024-05-07). Note that regional aggregation masks within-region differences in cost of living.
7. “Meme stocks are a thing—again” by Hannah Miao, Gunjan Banerji (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-08-05).

Cybersecurity

1. “CVE exploits, stolen credentials fueled ransomware surge in 2023” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-06-04).
2. “China is ‘prepositioning’ for future cyberattacks—and the new NSA chief is worried” by Niharika Mandhana, Gordon Fairclough (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-03).
3. “‘She hooked me’: How an online scam cost a senior citizen his life’s savings” by Felix Solomon (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-02).
4. “Detecting and preventing unauthorized user access” by Brad Jones (Snowflake, 2024-06-02).
5. “NIST has a plan to clear the vulnerability analysis backlog” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-05-31). That plan is: Hire a government contractor.
6. “Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span” by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica, 2024-05-30).
7. “Critical CVEs are going under-analyzed as NIST falls behind” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-05-28).
8. “Hackers created rogue VMs to evade detection in recent MITRE cyber attack” by Newsroom (The Hacker News, 2024-05-24).
9. “CVE exploitation nearly tripled in 2023, Verizon finds” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-05-01).

Economics

1. “ADP national employment report—May 2024” (ADP Research Institute, 2024-06-05).
2. “Why China’s overcapacity problem is about to get even worse, in seven charts” by Nathaniel Taplin (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-04).
3. “Is America’s economy heading for a consumer crunch?” (The Economist, 2024-06-04).
4. “Job openings and labor turnover—April 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-06-04).
5. “Personal income and outlays, April 2024” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2024-05-31).

Education

1. “Google invests $15M to train new cyber pros” by Sam Sabin (Axios, 2024-06-04).
2. “Next up for House renewal: Eliot” by Eileen O’Grady (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-30).
3. “Deep reading will save your soul” by William Deresiewicz (Persuasion, 2024-05-29).
4. “When should Harvard speak out?” by Jessica McCann (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-28). An interview with Alison Simmons and Noah Feldman of the Harvard Institutional Voice Working Group.
5. “Institutional voice” by Alan M. Garber et al. (Harvard : Office of the President, 2024-05-28).

Health, medicine, and wellness

1. “Tom Cech: RNA takes center stage” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-06-05). 49m audio recording with transcript; link to video recording.
2. “Why the pandemic probably started in a lab, in 5 key points” by Alina Chan (The New York Times, 2024-06-03).
3. “Long covid at 3 years” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-05-30).
4. “Venki Ramakrishnan: The new science of aging” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-05-28). 50 m audio recording with transcript.

Law

1. “The Supreme Court is about to decide the future of free speech” by Nadine Strossen (Persuasion, 2024-06-04).

Politics : BGP

1. “FCC vote on tap for rules to secure fundamental component of the internet” by Tim Starks (CyberScoop, 2024-06-04).
2. “FCC wants rules for ‘most important part of the internet you’ve probably never heard of’” by Tim Starks (CyberScoop, 2024-04-24).

Politics : Computer chips

1. “Asia’s chip giants hustle to maintain their edge over the U.S.” by Jiyoung Sohn, Yang Jie (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-05).
2. “The goal for China’s chip giant: Cut out the U.S.” by Yoko Kubota (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-03).
3. “The U.S. gave chip makers billions. Now comes the hard part.” by Asa Fitch (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-02).
4. “The global chips battle, in charts” by Nate Rattner, Jiyoung Sohn (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-02).

Politics : India

1. “The morning” by Alex Travelli (The New York Times, 2024-06-06). Subtitled, “Modi’s choices”.
2. “A triumph for Indian democracy” (The Economist, 2024-06-05).
3. “India’s surprising election results a ‘watershed moment’” by Daniel Harsha (Harvard Kennedy School : Ash Center, 2024-06-04). Q&A with Professor Gautam Nair.

Politics : Mexico

1. “Claudia Sheinbaum has won Mexico’s presidency in a landslide” (The Economist, 2024-06-03).
2. “Mexico’s new president is an enigma” by Quico Toro (Persuasion, 2024-06-03).

Politics : Trump’s NY trial

1. “William Galston on 2024 and Trump’s conviction” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-06-01). 1h29m audio recording with transcript.
2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times 2024-05-31). Subtitled, “We’re covering Trump’s conviction…”.
3. “Donald Trump found guilty on all 34 counts in New York hush-money case” by Corinne Ramey, James Fanelli (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-31).
4. “A guilty verdict for Trump and its consequences for the country” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-30).

Politics : Other

1. “Why no one will save Sudan” by Cameron Hudson (Persuasion, 2024-06-05).
2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-06-05). Subtitled, “The asylum loophole”.
3. “The sad case of Hunter Biden” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-05).
4. “Merrick Garland, three special counsels and a Justice Department under fire” by Sadie Gurman, Aruna Viswanatha (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-04).
5. “Hong Kong smothers dissent ahead of the Tiananmen anniversary” (The Economist, 2024-06-03).
6. “Trump conviction and Biden tapes put new pressure on Mike Johnson” by Katy Stech Farek (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-03).
7. “Israel, Palestine, and the sub-rational” by Michael G. Holzman (Persuasion, 2024-05-31).
8. “Happy fun Cold War 2 update” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-29).
9. “Blacklisted Chinese companies rebrand as American to dodge crackdown” by Heather Somerville (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-29).
10. “How to live in a world where Trump is winning” by Quico Toro (Persuasion, 2024-05-28).
11. “AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board” by Helen Toner, Tasha McCauley (The Economist, 2024-05-26).

Science

1. “Biologists are unfolding life’s molecular shapes” by Yasemin Saplakoglu (Quanta Magazine, 2024-05-28).

Society

1. “How many of our ‘facts’ about society, health, and the economy are fake?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-06-06). Paywalled.
2. “Does curiosity make you read more hard news? How about anxiety?” by Joshua Benton (Nieman Lab, 2024-06-04).
3. “Don’t be a stranger: The power of renewing old friendships” by Rob Henderson (The Boston Globe, 2024-05-29).
4. “Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2021-03-28).

Technology

1. “The AI revolution is already losing steam” by Christopher Mims (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-31).
2. “The Daylight tablet returns computing to its hippie ideals” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-05-31).
3. “Can Elon Musk’s xAI take on OpenAI?” (The Economist, 2024-05-29).
4. “These Internet browsers promise privacy. What does that actually mean?” by Cheryl Winokur Munk (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-28).
5. “Big Tech’s budding AI monopoly” by William P. Barr (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-27).
6. “Don’t believe the biggest myth about heat pumps” by Matt Simon (WIRED, 2024-05-24).
7. “Privacy experts sound the alarm over Microsoft’s latest AI tool” by Samantha Kelly (CNN, 2024-05-22).

Other

1. “The struggle makes the reward” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-06-05).
2. “The best noise-canceling headphones” by Nick Guy, Geoffrey Morrison (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-03).
3. “Take the work seriously. Yourself? Not so much.” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-05-28).
4. “Reflections on Sozhenitsyn’s Harvard address” by Sergiu Klainerman (Quillette, 2020-10-24).

Read : 2023-12-21

Articles for reading

1. “When we say ‘security’, what do we mean?” by Kelly Shortridge (kellyshortridge.com, 2023-10-26).
2. “In defense of performance: A manifesto” by Steve Magness, Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, ????).

Articles for reference

Business

1. “These Tesla wannabes are running out of road” by Amrith Ramkumar, Shane Shifflett (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-19).

Cybersecurity

1. “CISA seeks comment on secure by design principles to boost global software security” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-12-21).
2. “Crypto-gram” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2023-12-15).
3. “Cybersecurity isn’t special” by Kelly Shortridge (kellyshortridge.com, 2023-12-13).
4. “AI and mass spying” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2023-12-05). Originally published on Slate.
5. “AI and trust” by Bruce Schneier (Belfer Center, 2023-11-27).
6. “CISA urges use of memory safe code in software development” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-09-22).
7. “FBI guidance to victims of cyber incidents on SEC reporting requirements” (US Federal Bureau of Investigation, ????). Portal to webpages with the SEC rule, FBI notice policy, DOJ memo, and information about how to request a delay in incident reporting (including information required in each request).
8. “When we say ‘security’, what do we mean?” by Kelly Shortridge (kellyshortridge.com, 2023-10-26).
9. “‘Quantum’ doesn’t solve anything for cybersecurity” by Kelly Shortridge (kellyshortridge.com, 2023-07-05).

Economics

1. “Real average weekly earnings up 0.5 percent from November 2022 to November 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-12-21).
2. “How did the U.S. achieve a soft landing?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-12-20).
3. “Fed official says rate cuts could be needed next year to prevent overtightening” by Nick Timiraos (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-18). My summary: San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly hints that the Fed may have to cut rates…or keep rates higher for longer. It depends.
4. “Buy now, pay later keeps people spending—without credit agencies knowing” by Angel Au-Yeung (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-17).
5. “Markets cheer Fed outlook, but the rally complicates it” by Eric Wallerstein (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-14).
6. “The Fed underwrites the recovery” by Greg Ip (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-14).
7. “Advance monthly sales for retail and food services [November 2023]” (US Census Bureau, 2023-12-14). Note the asterisk in the program: “The 90 percent confidence interval includes zero. There is insufficient statistical evidence to conclude that the actual change is different from zero.” If you’re into this kind of thing, then consider contacting the Census Bureau and asking them to please include error bars on their bar charts. (The Bureau conveniently provides an e-mail address and phone number in the right column of this release!)

Education

1. “Harvard is big business at its worst” by Allysia Finley (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-17).
2. “University presidents under fire” by Jeannie Suk Gersen (The New Yorker, 2023-12-17).
3. “The cultural power of report cards” by Jill Anderson (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2023-12-01). Summary, 18m audio recording, and full transcript.

Health and medicine

1. “A covid update” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-12-16).
2. “How to stop overeating: 10 tips to avoid eating too much” by Katie McCallum (Houston Methodist, 2022-01-26).

Mathematics

1. “Celebrated cryptography algorithm gets an upgrade” by Madison Goldberg (Quanta Magazine, 2023-12-14). On recent efficiency gains for LLL-type algorithms.

Politics

1. “Where does the modern state come from?” (The Economist, 2023-12-20).
2. “The myth of the unprecedented” by Stephen S. Roach (Project Syndicate, 2023-12-21).
3. “The most important developments of 2023” by Michael J. Boskin (Project Syndicate, 2023-12-21).
4. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-12-20). Subtitled, “We’re covering the strategic goals of both Hamas and Israel…”.
5. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-12-18). Subtitled, “We’re covering the debate over immigration policy in Congress…”.
6. “Two experts look back for the future of American conservatism” by Daniel Harsha (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-12-14).
7. “The morning” by Jodi Kantor (The New York Times, 2023-12-15). Subtitled, “In today’s newsletter, we go behind the scenes of the Supreme Court.”

Science and technology

1. “ChatGPT’s ‘winter break’ is the latest sign of model drifts” by Lindsey Wilkinson (CIO Dive, 2023-12-20).
2. “How the chips that power AI work” (The Wall Street Journal : The Tech Behind, 2023-12-18).
3. “We need to focus more on the social effects of AI, says Nicholas Christakis” by Nicholas Christakis (The Economist, 2023-12-15).
4. “Cars that change colors—and other new auto tech on the way” by Brett Berk (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-13).
5. “The TED A.I. conference” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-12-13).
6. “Prompt engineering” (OpenAI, ????).

Society

1. “$15 billion in five years: What data tells us about MacKenzie Scott’s philanthropy” by Matthew Lee, Brian Trelstad, Ethan Tran (Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 2023-12-19).
2. “Purposelessness—not social media—is causing our kids’ depression” by Daniel Miessler (Unsupervised Learning, 2023-12-15).
3. “Finding right mix on campus speech policies” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-12-14).
4. “When the New York Times lost its way” by James Bennet (The Economist, 2023-12-14). Note: According to The Economist, “James Bennet is The Economist’s Lexington columnist” and “a former editorial-page editor of the New York Times”.
5. “How American journalism lets down readers and voters” (The Economist, 2023-12-14).
6. “American journalism sounds much more Democratic than Republican” (The Economist, 2023-12-14).
7. “Conformity: The power of social influences—A review” by Vincent Harinam, Rob Henderson (Quillette, 2019-06-18).

Other

1. “The shortfalls of willpower” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-12-21).
2. “Doing well by doing good? One industry’s struggle to balance values and profits” by Scott Van Voorhis (Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 2023-12-11).
3. “How can US Navy carriers that were built 3-4 decades ago be better than Chinese Navy carriers built just 2-3 years ago?” by Jacques Malan, John Currier (Quora, ????).
4. “In defense of performance: A manifesto” by Steve Magness, Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, ????).
5. “BeFamily” (befamily.com). Homepage for “your family’s smart assistant”.