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 : 2023-10-01

Articles for reading

1. “The importance of output choice: implications for productivity measurement” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-09). “This article presents three alternative concepts of output…and…discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using different output concepts in productivity measurement.”

Articles for reference

Cybersecurity

1. “Your online account may have been breached? Don’t just sit there. Do something.” by Rajendran Murthy (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-09-25).
2. “AWS bets on accuracy in generative AI deployment race” by Naomi Edie (CIO Dive, 2023-09-26).
3. “Is there really an information security jobs crisis?” by Ben Rothke (Medium, 2023-09-12). Paywalled.
4. “People’s Republic of China state-sponsored cyber actors exploit network providers and devices” (US CISA, 2023-06-10). The best practices, listed at the top of the advisory, should sound familiar:
   • Apply patches promptly.
   • Disable unnecessary ports and protocols.
   • Replace EOL components.
   • Centralize patch management.

Economics

1. “The green trade wars” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-10-01).
2. “Personal income and outlays, August 2023” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2023-09-29). PCEPI +0.4% mom; core PCEPI +0.1% mom. Release contains link to Table 2.4.4U with a detailed breakdown.
3. “Forget the shutdown. America’s real fiscal worry is rising bond yields” (The Economist, 2023-09-28).
4. “The importance of output choice: implications for productivity measurement” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-09). “This article presents three alternative concepts of output…and…discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using different output concepts in productivity measurement.”
5. “Why do economists get paid more than sociologists?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-09-23).

Health and medicine

1. “Fall shots: Who’s most vulnerable to RSV, COVID, and the flu?” by Maureen Salamon (Harvard Health Publishing, 2023-09-27).
2. “How federal missteps opened door to COVID misinformation” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-09-25).
3. “Is organic better?” as told to Anna Lamb (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-09-22). Robert Paarlberg shares his views.

Law

1. “Rappaport Forum talks First Amendment limits of content moderation, ‘lawful but awful’ speech on social media” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2023-09-27).
2. “Lina Khan has a weak case against Amazon” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-09-27).
3. “Power of the purse” by Jeff Neal (Harvard Law Today, 2023-09-25).
4. “Legal writing in focus” by Jeff Neal (Harvard Law Today, 2023-09-22).

Politics

1. “America’s broken civic bargain” by J. Bradford DeLong (Project Syndicate, 2023-09-28).
2. “Why the state should not promote marriage” (The Economist, 2023-09-28).
3. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-09-26). Subtitled, “We’re asking why recent progressive movements have been disappointing…”
4. “Political Lawfare May Get ‘Hobbesian’” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-09-25).

Science and technology

1. “The A.I. wars have three factions, and they all crave power” by Bruce Schneier, Nathan Sanders (The New York Times, 2023-09-28).
2. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-09-29). Levy criticizes Meta’s mission creep.
3. “The band of debunkers busting bad scientists” by Nidhi Subbaraman (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-09-24).

Society

1. “The morning” by Lauren Jackson (The New York Times, 2023-09-24). Subtitled, “Running clubs have become popular in cities around the world, helping people make friends and even meet spouses.”

Other

1. “The attention game vs. the recognition game” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-09-28).
2. “Lessons from biking 245 miles across France” by kyla scanlon (Kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-09-28).
3. “I never called her momma” by Jenisha Watts (The Atlantic, 2023-09-13). “I was Jenisha from Kentucky, and I was raised in a crack house.”

Read : 2021-11-19

Today’s selection of articles:

1. “Seeing clearly in a delusional world” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2021-11-18).
2. “Inside X’s mission to make robots boring” by Steven Levy (Wired, 2021-11-19).
3. “Triggering your stocks without triggering the IRS” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2021-11-19).
4. “What should Biden do about inflation? Mostly sit tight” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2021-11-18).
5. “In a conflict between justice and the Constitution, ‘why should the Constitution prevail’?” by Jeff Neal (Harvard Law Today, 2021-11-16). Article includes link to the HLS Library book talk on YouTube.