Read : 2024-06-06

Articles for reference

Arts

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

Books

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

Business and investing

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

Cybersecurity

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

Economics

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

Education

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

Health, medicine, and wellness

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

Law

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

Politics : BGP

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

Politics : Computer chips

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

Politics : India

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

Politics : Mexico

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

Politics : Trump’s NY trial

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

Politics : Other

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

Science

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

Society

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

Technology

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

Other

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

Read : 2024-05-04

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).

Read : 2024-04-23

Articles for reference

Athletics

1. “The morning” by Ashley Wu (The New York Times, 2024-04-16). Subtitled, “On the morning after the Boston Marathon, my colleague Ashley Wu looks at the growing popularity of distance running.”

Business and investing

1. “Netflix dealth with the freeloaders. Its next act will be tougher” by Dan Galalgher (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-19).
2. “Why the stockmarket is disappearing” (The Economist, 2024-04-18).
3. “Market reaction to Iran attack tells us stocks aren’t in a bubble” by Greg Ip (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-16).
4. “California is losing tech jobs” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2024-04-14).
5. “Inside Amazon’s push to crack Trader Joe’s—and dominate everything” by Dana Mattioli (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-13).

Cybersecurity

1. “Majority of businesses worldwide are implementing zero trust, Gartner finds” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-04-22).
2. “Cybersecurity executive order requirements are nearly complete, GAO says” by Matt Bracken (FedScoop, 2024-04-22).
3. “UK government cannot protect business and services from cyber attacks, IT pros say” by Sead Fadilpašić (Tech Radar, 2024-04-22).
4. “OpenAI’s GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories” by Thomas Claburn (The Register, 2024-04-17).
5. “Fears rise of social engineering campaign as open source community spots another threat” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-04-16).
6. “Palo Alto Networks fixes maximum severity, exploited CVE in firewalls” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-04-16).
7. “CISA releases malware next-gen analysis system for public use” by Ryan Naraine (Security Week, 2024-04-10).
8. “Dutch engineer used water pump to get billion-dollar Stuxnet malware into Iranian nuclear facility: Report” by Eduard Kovacs (Security Week, 2024-01-10).

Health, medicine, and wellness

1. “Health fads and fictions: VO2 max, supplement mania, sunlight, and immortality” by Derek Thompson (Plain English, 2024-04-19). Featuring guests Steve Magness and Brad Stulberg. 58m audio podcast with transcript.
2. “How do trees and green spaces enhance our health?” by Wynne Armand (Harvard Health Publishing, 2024-04-19).
3. “Are we FLiRTing with a new covid wave?” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-04-18).
4. “Jennifer Doudna: The exciting future of genome editing” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-04-14). 32m audio recording with transcript.
5. “Harnessing the senses to improve memory” by Molly McDonough (Harvard Medicine, 2024-04).

Law

1. “‘We are living through a natural law moment in constitutional history’” (Harvard Law Today, 2024-04-16). Lecture by Joel Alicea. Summary ends with link to 54m video recording.

Politics

1. “Lawyers reap big profits lobbying government regulators under the radar” by Christy DeSmith (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-04-22).
2. “How to get more people into military uniforms” (The Economist, 2024-04-18). Subtitled, “Why mandatory military service makes sense for some countries but not others”.
3. “Shutting down the political right” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-18).
4. “What your country can do for you” by Rob Henderson (The Free Press, 2023-04-25).

Science

1. “Some ‘junk DNA’ serves a purpose” by Yasemin Saplakoglu (Quanta Magazine, 2024-04-22). With special attention to transposons, short tandem repeats, and pseudogenes.

Society

1. “Are you a human? Select all that apply.” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-04-22).
2. “Kant vs the algorithm” by Luke Hallam (Persuasion, 2024-04-22).
3. “The language of political control” by Robert Skidelsky (Project Syndicate, 2024-04-19).
4. “A reckoning is coming for the Democrats” by Sam Kahn (Persuasion, 2024-04-19).
5. “America’s trust in its institutions has collapsed” (The Economist, 2024-04-17).
6. “NPR editor resigns after publicly criticizing coverage, calls new CEO ‘divisive’” by Alexandra Bruell (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-17).
7. “The prophets: Eric Hoffer” by Rob Henderson (The Free Press, 2024-04-13).
8. “Beware cultural drift” by Robin Hanson (Quillette, 2024-04-11).
9. “I’ve been at NPR for 25 years. Here’s how we lost America’s trust.” by Uri Berliner (The Free Press, 2024-04-09).
10. “AI and the evolution of social media” by Bruce Schneier, Nathan Sanders (MIT Technology Review, via Schneier on Security, 2024-03-19).

Technology

1. “What is screen time doing to children?” (The Economist, 2024-04-17).
2. “Backdoor in XZ Utils that almost happened” by Bruce Schneier (Lawfare, via Schneier on Security, 2024-04-11).
3. “The best password managers for keeping your digital world safe” by Heidi Mitchell (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-19).

Other

1. “Why engineers should study philosophy” by Marco Argenti (Harvard Business Review, 2024-04-16).
2. “What happens if you file your taxes late—and how to avoid big penalties” by E. Napoletano (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-01-10).

Read : 2023-12-21

Articles for reading

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

Articles for reference

Business

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

Cybersecurity

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

Economics

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

Education

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

Health and medicine

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

Mathematics

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

Politics

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

Science and technology

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

Society

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

Other

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

Read : 2023-12-13

Articles for reference

Current events

1. “Statement from the Harvard Corporation: Our president” by the Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard University, 2023-12-12).
2. “The OpenAI board member who clashed with Sam Altman shares her side” by Meghan Bobrowsky, Deepa Seetharaman (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-07).
3. “The Morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-12-07). Subtitled, “We’re covering the civilian death toll in Gaza…”.

Cybersecurity

1. “FBI to field SEC cyber incident disclosure delay requests” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-12-12).
2. “Our top 10 blogs of 2023” (AT&T Cybersecurity, 2023-12-08).
3. “Data breaches fallout reach new heights as the number of exposed records soars” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-12-08).
4. “Dragos launches program to provide water, electric utilities with free cybersecurity tools” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-06).
5. “SEC cyber disclosure rules are taking effect: Here’s what to expect” by Naomi Eide (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-08-31).

Economics

1. “Producer price index—November 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-12-13).
2. “Consumer Price Index—November 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-12-12).
3. “The Fed can’t put off preparing for rate cuts” by Justin Lahart (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-09).
4. “The employment situation—November 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-12-08).
5. “The most important debate on Wall Street: Is inflation licked?” by Sam Goldfarb (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-07).
6. “Three economic risks facing America in 2024” by Simon Rabinovitch (The Economist, 2023-11-13).

Education

1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-12-12). Subtitled, “We’re covering the debate over speech and safety on college campuses…”.

Medicine

1. “David Liu: A master class on the future of genome editing” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-12-10). 48m audio recording with transcript.

Politics

1. “How to fix Section 702 surveillance” by the Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-11).
2. “The real Trump risk for Republicans” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-07).

Science

1. “Science Digest” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-12-10).
2. “The (often) overlooked experiment that revealed the quantum world” by Zack Savitsky (Quanta Magazine, 2023-12-05).

Society

1. “One in five young Americans think the Holocaust is a myth” (The Economist, 2023-12-07). According to the article, a recent YouGov/Economist survey of Americans found that “20% of respondents aged 18–29 think that the Holocaust is a myth” and “[a]n additional 30% of young Americans said they do not know whether the Holocaust is a myth”.
   The author continues, “Perhaps surprisingly, education levels do not appear to be the culprit”. This brings to mind a talk by Julia Galef: “Soldiers and scouts: Why our minds weren’t built for truth, and how we can change that” (Apple Podcasts, 2018-09-19). Education may not solve these problems—in fact, it may make them worse. According to Ms. Galef, identifying and tackling motivated reasoning would be more effective. Identifying and tackling the incentives people face is also important. Specifically, if people are blind to motivated reasoning, and if they see their identity and social position as relying on certain beliefs, then they are unlikely to change those beliefs—perhaps especially if they consider themselves to be “smarter” than the average bear.
2. “It’s more than just vibes” by kyla scanlon (Kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-12-07).

Technology

1. “6 IT experts share what’s next in cloud, generative AI and tech talent” by Roberto Torres (CIO Dive, 2023-12-11).
2. “Welcome to the ad-free internet” (The Economist, 2023-12-11).
3. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-12-08). On NotebookLM.
4. “Geoffrey Hinton: Large language models in medicine. They understand and have empathy” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-12-08).
5. “There will be a surplus of tech workers by 2026, executives project” by Roberto Torres (CIO Dive, 2023-12-07).

Other

1. “The Machiavellian maze” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2023-12-10).
2. “You need rituals and routines now more than ever” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-12-07).
3. “Lessons in decision-making: Confident people aren’t always correct (except when they are)” by Kara Baskin (Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 2023-12-05).
4. “Rationality reading list” (Center for Applied Rationality, ????).

Read : 2023-07-19

Articles for reading

1. “Science digest: Difficult conversations, heat training, meaningful work, and group collaboration” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-07-09).
2. “The economic impact of the student loan restart” by Joseph Politano (Apriticas Economics, 2023-07-18).

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “Barbara ‘Palvin’ Sprouse wore Vivienne Westwood to marry Dylan Sprouse at their Hungarian countryside wedding” by Alexandra Macon (Vogue, 2023-07-18).

Cybersecurity

1. “Nearly 70% of FortiGate firewalls are vulnerable to new bugs, experts say” by Jonathan Greig (The Record, 2023-07-05).
2. “Getting locked out of your digital life is bad. Here’s how to avoid it.” by Nicole Nguyen (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-07-09).
3. “Threat group testing more sophisticated DDoS hacks, authorities warn” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-07-10).
4. “Victims of cyberattack on file-transfer tool pile up” by Catherine Stupp (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-07-19).

Economics

1. “Measure it differently, and inflation is behind us” by James Mackintosh (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-07-12).
2. “Consumer price index—June 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-07-12).

Education

1. “California needs real math education, not gimmicks” by Armand Domalewski (Noahpinion, 2023-07-08).
2. “Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-07-18).
3. “The economic impact of the student loan restart” by Joseph Politano (Apriticas Economics, 2023-07-18).

Investing

1. “Five books to make you smarter about money” by Simon Constable (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-07-09).

Law

1. “How to think about AI” by Colleen Walsh (Harvard Law Bulletin, 2023-06-27).

Mathematics

1. “The mathematically correct way to tie your shoes” by Ethan Siegel (Big Think, 2023-07-06). Less click-baitily, On the shoe-tying merits and demerits of the reef knot and the granny knot.

Politics

1. “The pushback against industrial policy has begun” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-07-15).
2. “Is age just a number? Ask Biden and Trump” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-07-17).

Religion

1. “Form and freedom in the church” by Francis Schaeffer (Lausanne Movement, ????).

Science and technology

1. “People drawn to conspiracy theories share a cluster of psychological features” by Melinda Wenner Moyer (Scientific American, 2019-03).
2. “Science digest: Difficult conversations, heat training, meaningful work, and group collaboration” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-07-09).
3. “Interview: Chris Miller, historian and author of ‘Chip War’” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-07-10).
4. “Anthropic, OpenAI beef up coding capabilities for their LLMs” by Lindsey Wilson (CIO Dive, 2023-07-11).

Society

1. “Wave of rental resets to further deplete affordable housing” by Will Parker (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-07-10).
2. “Crosswalks and pedestrian safety: What you need to know from recent research” by Clark Merrefield (The Journalist’s Resource, 2023-07-10).

Read : 2023-04-23

Articles for reading (and podcasts for listening)

1. “How can some infinities be bigger than others?” by Steven Strogatz (Quanta Magazine : The Joy of Why, 2023-04-19). Forty-six-minute audio podcast with Justin Moore. (Audio transcript included.)

Articles for reference

Cybersecurity

1. “Kaja Kallas says Ukraine is giving the free world a masterclass on cyber-defence” by Kaja Kallas (The Economist, 2023-04-17).
2. “CFPB says staffer sent 250,000 consumers’ data to personal account” by Andrew Ackerman (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-04-19).

Economics

1. “Few banks are hedging interest-rate risk” by Matt Grossman (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-04-18).
2. “How to explain the puzzle of the world ecoconomy” (The Economist, 2023-04-17).
3. “The overwhelming case for CBDCs” by Willem H. Buiter (Project Syndicate, 2023-04-18).
4. “The Bank of Japan’s remarkable decade” by Takatoshi Ito (Project Syndicate, 2023-04-21).

Science and technology : Artificial intelligence (AI)

1. “Large language models’ ability to generate text also lets them plan and reason” (The Economist, 2023-04-19).
2. “Large, creative AI models will transform lives and labour markets” (The Economist, 2023-04-22).
3. “How to worry wisely about artificial intelligence” (The Economist, 2023-04-20).
4. “How generative models could go wrong” (The Economist, 2023-04-19).
5. “How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history” (The Economist, 2023-04-20).

Science and technology : Other

1. “How can some infinities be bigger than others?” by Steven Strogatz (Quanta Magazine : The Joy of Why, 2023-04-19). Forty-six-minute audio podcast with Justin Moore. (Audio transcript included.)
2. “A new kind of symmetry shakes up physics” by Kevin Hartnett (Quanta Magazine, 2023-04-18).
3. “Plaintext” by Morgan Meaker (WIRED, 2023-04-21). On what file sharing, iTunes, and streaming did to music.
4. “Did the energy crisis accelerate the energy transition?” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-04-22).

Society

1. “What does Gen Z really think about work?” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-04-20).
2. “Picasso was a genius—and a beast. Can the two be separated?” (The Economist, 2023-04-05).

Other

1. “The hard truth about G2A, Kinguin, and grey market keys” by Locke Kosta (Locke’s Journey, 2016-03-17).
2. “How to regulate your nervous system” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-04-20).

Read : 2019-08-29

Today’s selection of articles:

1. “The corrupting of democracy” (The Economist, 2019-08-29). How many times have you heard those around you, even politicians, dismiss or call into question the entire political system, especially when it produces results they don’t like?
   

   [T]oo much cynicism undermines legitimacy.

2. “OpenAI has released the largest version yet of its fake-news-spewing AI“, by Karen Hao (MIT Technology Review, 2019-08-29). What shocked me most was what the “great example” of AI-generated fake news reveals about human-generated real politics: Perhaps the fake political speech is convincing, because most real political speeches are so devoid of meaningful content. Of course, this was well recognized by “The Simpsons” (Season 8, Episode 1, “Treehouse of Horror VII : Citizen Kang“) over two decades ago…
3. “Release strategies and the social impacts of language models“, by Irene Solaiman et al. (arXiv, 2019-08-24). Report by the OpenAI researchers regarding their “staged-release” of their GPT-2 language model.
4. “Google shocks Huawei: New Mate 30 will launch without Android software and services“, by Zak Doffman (Forbes, 2019-08-28). Another casualty of the trade war.