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 : 2024-05-28

Articles for reading

1. “Mexican democracy hangs in the balance” by Enrique Krauze (Persuasion, 2024-05-27).
2. “Canada’s assault on free speech” by Jeffrey Cieslikowsky (Persuasion, 2024-05-23).
3. “Here’s how to put a country back together” by Eboo Patel (Persuasion, 2024-05-22).

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “The morning” by Sarah Diamond (The New York Times, 2024-05-27). Subtitled, “From audition to boot camp”.
2. “The hit series ‘Bridgerton’ has set off a string-quartet boom” (The Economist, 2024-05-20).
3. “Publishers aren’t in trouble—writers are” by Elle Griffin (Persuasion, 2024-05-20).

Books

1. “In this economy book: The why and how” by kyla scanlon (Kyla’s Newsletter, 2024-05-17).
2. “Five novels that imagine dictatorship in America” (The Economist 2024-05-15).

Business and investing

1. “What entry-level jobs really look like today” by Lindsay Ellis, Kara Dapena (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-21).
2. “Market froth is getting extreme. Just look at meme stocks.” by James Mackintosh (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-17).
3. “Investors are striking gold all over” by Gregory Zuckerman, Gunjan Banerji (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-17).
4. “Called back to the office? How you benefit from ideas you didn’t know you were missing” by Ben Rand (Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 2024-05-09).
5. “The rise of large-language-model optimization” by Bruce Schneier, Judith Donath (The Atlantic, via Schneier on Security, 2024-04-25).
6. “The untold story: How the iPhone blew up the wireless industry” by Fred Vogelstein (WIRED, 2008-01-09).

Cybersecurity

1. “CyberArk to acquire Venafi for $1.5 billion as cyber market shows signs of recovery” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-21).
2. “It is dangerously easy to hack the world’s phones” (The Economist, 2024-05-17).
3. “UK outlaws awful default passwords on connected devices” by Kevin Purdy (Ars Technica, 2024-04-29).
4. “GitHub comments abused to push malware via Microsoft repo URLs” by Lawrence Abrams (Bleeping Computer, 2024-04-20).
5. “New lattice cryptanalytic technique” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2024-04-15). Retracted as of 2024-04-20.
6. “Open Source Security (OpenSSF) and OpenJS Foundations issue alert for social engineering takeovers of open source projects” by Robin Bender Ginn, Omkhar Arasaratnam (OpenJS Foundation, 2024-04-??).

Economics

1. “Central banks’ new-old inflationary bias” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2024-05-27).
2. “A detailed look at Biden’s new China tariffs” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2024-05-25).
3. “In which British writers scold America on trade” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-21).
4. “The myth of central-bank independence” by Robert Skidelsky (Project Syndicate, 2024-05-20).
5. “Why is China producing so many export goods, anyway?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-17).
6. “Consumer price index—April 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-05-15).
7. “America’s manufacturing productivity problem” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2024-05-14).
8. “Producer price indexes—April 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-05-14).
9. “The big tariffs are here” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-14).

Education : Protests at Harvard

1. “I led The Crimson through historic backlash. Now, Harvard’s Pro-Palestine protestors face worse.” by Raquel Coronell Uribe (The Harvard Crimson, 2024-05-23).
2. “Harvard Corporation rejects FAS effort to let 13 pro-Palestine student protestors graduate” by Emma H. Haidar, Cam E. Kettles (The Harvard Crimson, 2024-05-22).

   Monday’s faculty vote did not, however, revisit these disciplinary rulings, did not purport to engage in the individualized assessment of each case that would ordinarily be required to do so, and, most importantly, did not claim to restore the students to good standing.

3. “Harvard Corporation rules thirteen students cannot graduate” (Harvard Magazine, 2024-05-22).
4. “Dissent: There is no Palestine exception” by Jacob M. Miller (The Harvard Crimson, 2024-05-21).
5. “A Palestine exception to Commencement” by The Crimson Editorial Board (The Harvard Crimson, 2024-05-21).
6. “Harvard faculty overwhelmingly vote to allow seniors disciplined over encampment to graduate” by Tilly R. Robinson, Neil H. Shah (The Harvard Crimson, 2024-05-20). Buried in the article is the fact that “the faculty” refers to the 115 voting faculty members—out of 888 total—who chose to attend the meeting. (The authors note this turnout is “unusually high”.) I did not see the number of votes for and against presented. (It may have been a voice vote.)
7. “Update on encampment in Harvard Yard” by Alan M. Garber (Harvard University, 2024-05-14).

Education : Other

1. “Time to stand up, defend American higher education, Faust says” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-21).
2. “‘Free and brave’: Defending universities and the rule of truth” by Drew Gilpin Faust (Harvard Magazine, 2024-05-21).
3. “Time is running out to fix America’s student-aid mess” (The Economist, 2024-05-21).
4. “Um…where is everybody?” by Elaine McArdle (Harvard GSE : Education Magazine, 2024-05-08).

Health, medicine, and wellness

1. “Anger does a lot more damage to your body than you realize” by Sumathi Reddy (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-22).
2. “Everything counts!” by Kira Sampson (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-20). On measuring activity in steps versus time.
3. “Ultra-processed foods—some more than others—linked to early death” (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2024-05-15).
4. “‘No safe amount of exposure’ to gas stove pollution” (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2024-05-14).

Law

1. “A Supreme Court victory for the administrative state” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-16).

Politics

1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-05-23). Subtitled, “We’re covering Biden’s immigration policy…”.
2. “The Israelis prove Biden wrong on Rafah” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-22).
3. “How liberal democracy might lose the 21st century” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-22). Paywalled.
4. “Le Pen’s hard right looks set to crush Macron’s centrists” (The Economist, 2024-05-22).
5. “The morning” by Azam Ahmed (The New York Times, 2024-05-22). Subtitled, “America’s monster”. On Afghanistan.
6. “Prosecuting Netanyahu has risks for International Criminal Court” by Jess Bravin (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-21).
7. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-05-20). Subtitled, “We’re covering ‘neopopulism’…”.
8. “Debating Trump is a mistake” by John McWhorter (Persuasion, 2024-05-17).
9. “American IT scammer helped North Korea fund nuclear weapons program, U.S. says” by Mariah Timms, Dustin Volz (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-16).
10. “Why America is vulnerable to a despot” (The Economist, 2024-05-16).
11. “Is America dictator-proof?” (The Economist, 2024-05-16).
12. “Joe Biden, master oil trader” (The Economist, 2024-05-16).

Society

1. “Mexican democracy hangs in the balance” by Enrique Krauze (Persuasion, 2024-05-27).
2. “Canada’s assault on free speech” by Jeffrey Cieslikowsky (Persuasion, 2024-05-23).
3. “Here’s how to put a country back together” by Eboo Patel (Persuasion, 2024-05-22).
4. “Nellie Bowles on how the revolution went mainstream” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-05-18). 1h09m audio recording with transcript.
5. “How The New York Times went woke” by Nellie Bowles (Persuasion, 2024-05-15).
6. “For political journalists, neutrality isn’t the goal” by Marisa Lagos (Zócalo, 2024-05-16).

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 : 2024-03-07

Articles for reading

1. “‘Harvard thinking’: Our democracy problem” by Samantha Laine Perfas (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-02-28). 33m audio recording with transcript.

Articles for reference

Books

1. “Troubled is a national bestseller—but weirdly, not a New York Times bestseller” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-03-03).

Business and investing

1. “What’s behind the US stock-market disconnect?” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2024-03-04).
2. “A frothy market misses vital bubble ingredients” by James Mackintosh (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-02).
3. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-03-01). On AI startup Groq.
4. “Stockmarkets are booming. But the good times are unlikely to last” (The Economist, 2024-02-25).

Cybersecurity

1. “Calls mount for government help as Change Healthcare hack freezes medical payments” by James Rundle, Kim S. Nash (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-05).
2. “White House rallies industry support for memory safe programming” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-02-28).
3. “GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack” by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica, 2024-02-28).
4. “Ivanti Connect Secure hackers hide in plain sight, evading protections” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-02-27).

Economics

1. “Personal income and outlays, January 2024” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2024-02-29).
2. “For the Fed, January PCE inflation is a setback, but not a game changer” by Nick Timiraos (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-29).

Education

1. “America’s elite universities are bloated, complacent and illiberal” (The Economist, 2024-03-04).
2. “How broken is academia?” by Jesse Adams (Persuasion, 2024-03-01).
3. “Improving mental health through independent play” by Jill Andereson (Harvard Graduate School of Education > Harvard EdCast, 2024-02-23). A conversation with Peter Gray. 28m audio recording with transcript.

Health, medicine, and wellness

1. “Coleen Murphy: The science of aging and longevity” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-03-03). 45m audio recording with transcript.
2. “When therapy makes things worse” by Abigail Shrier (Quillette, 2024-02-29).
3. “Long covid and cognitive deficits” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-02-28).
4. “Understanding pathological narcissim” by Claudia Romano (Harvard Giffin GSAS News, 2024-02-21). Ellen Finch, PhD candidate in psychology, gives a quick overview of some of her research.

Law

1. “Full steam ahead for Donald Trump after Supreme Court ruling” (The Economist, 2024-03-04).

Politics

1. “Fact sheet: President Biden announces new actions to lower costs for Americans by fighting corporate rip-offs” (US White House, 2024-03-05).
2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times > The Morning, 2024-03-05). Subtitled “We’re covering Big Tech…”.
3. “All politics is now media criticism” by John Halpin (Persuasion, 2024-03-04).
4. “Moderate Republicans continue to betray their principles” by Berny Belvedere (Persuasion, 2024-02-28).
5. “Why is the GOP sticking with Trump?” by Adam Garfinkle (Quillette, 2024-02-24).

Society

1. “Is The New York Times’ newsroom just a bunch of Ivy Leaguers? (Kinda, sorta.)” by Joshua Benton (Nieman Lab, Harvard University, 2024-02-28).
2. “‘Harvard thinking’: Our democracy problem” by Samantha Laine Perfas (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-02-28). 33m audio recording with transcript.

Technology

1. “Red Sea conflict threatens key Internet cables” by Drew FitzGerald (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-02).
2. “Why do Nvidia’s chips dominate the AI market?” (The Economist, 2024-02-27).
3. “Could AMD break Nvidia’s chokehold on chips?” (The Economist, 2024-01-31).

Other

1. “The morning” by Melissa Kirsch (The New York Times, 2024-03-02). Subtitled, “We know that happiness is to be found in taking our time and being present. How can we slow down and stop rushing our way through life?”
2. “Why small developers are getting squeezed out of the housing market” by Coby Lefkowitz (Noahpinion, 2024-03-02).
3. “Greeks and Jews: Two diaspora peoples” by Katherine Kelaidis (Quillette, 2024-03-01).
4. “The NYT misrepresents the history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict” by Benny Morris (Quillette, 2024-02-27).
5. “I trust you to do this” by Lory Hough (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2024-02-26).
6. “The gospel of wealth according to Marc Benioff” by Chris Colin (WIRED, 2019-12-11).

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Cybersecurity

1. “Ransomware gang files SEC complaint over victim’s undisclosed breach” by Ionut Ilascu (Bleeping Computer, 2023-11-15).
2. “#StopRansomware: Rhysida ransomware” (US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, 2023-11-15).
3. “Cyber experts worry AI could create a world of haves and have-nots” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-11-15).
4. “5 highest-paying IT certifications in 2023” by Lindsey Wilkinson (CIO Dive, 2023-11-14).
5. “Every car is a smart car, and it’s a privacy nightmare” by Katie Malone (Engadget, 2023-11-06).
6. “Decoupling for security” by Barath Raghavan, Bruce Schneier (IEEE Spectrum, 2023-11-05).
7. “Reflections on the Internet worm at 35” by Gene Spafford (Purdue University : CERIAS, 2023-11-02).
8. “Connecting the dots: Kaspersky reveals in-depth insights into Operation Triangulation” (Kaspersky, 2023-10-26).
9. “How to catch a wild triangle” by Leonid Bezvershenk et al. (Kaspersky : SecureList, 2023-10-26).
10. “Security vulnerability of Switzerland’s e-voting system” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2023-10-17).

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11. “The shapeshifting crypto wars” by Susan Landau (Lawfare, 2023-10-12).
12. “State of cybersecurity 2024” (CompTIA, 2023-09).

Economics

1. “The global fight against inflation has turned a corner” by Tom Fairless, Paul Hannon (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-11-16).
2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-11-16). Subtitled “We’re covering a surprising shift in economic thinking…”.
3. “The $2 trillion interest bill that’s hitting governments” by Chelsey Dulaney, Andrew Duehren, Peter Santilli (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-11-15).
4. “Producer price indexes—October 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-11-15).
5. “Consumer price index—October 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-11-14).
6. “A victory lap for the transitory inflation team” by Joseph E. Stiglitz (Project Syndicate, 2023-11-13). That last sentence.

Health and medicine

1. “What will it take to confront the invisible mental health crisis in business?” by Kara Baskin (Harvard Business School : Working Knowledge, 2023-11-09).
2. “Vaccinologist Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire on COVID-19 vaccines, boosters, and more” (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2023-11-08).

Politics

1. “Undergraduate workers unionize” by Nina Pasquini (Harvard Magazine, 2023-11-08).

Science and technology

1. “The super-scary theory of the 21st century (repost)” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-11-13).
2. “The future of drone warfare” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2023-10-31).
3. “Who’s accountable for AI usage in digital campaign ads? Right now, no one.” by Nathan Sanders, Bruce Schneier (Harvard Kennedy School : Ash Center, 2023-10-11).
4. “The Web is dead. Long live the Internet” by Chris Anderson, Michael Wolff (WIRED, 2010-08-17).

Society

1. “Rebuilding trust in expertise” by Diane Coyle (Project Syndicate, 2023-11-16).
2. “Ten ways AI will change democracy” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2023-11-13).

Other

1. “A tough question: When should an older driver stop driving?” by Robert H. Shmerling (Harvard Health Publishing, 2023-11-13). Part one of a two-part series.
2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-11-14). Subtitled, “We’re covering the debate over Al-Shifa, Gaza’s biggest hospital…”
3. “1948” by Michael Barbaro (The New York Times, 2023-11-03).
4. “Xpert series certs” by Carolyn April, Seth Robinson, Teresa Sears (CompTIA Volley via YouTube, 2023-09-15). 25m audio-video recording. An overview of CompTIA’s new Xpert series certifications, with one of their designers.

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Athletics

1. “Athletics should embrace “super-shoes”” (The Economist, 2023-11-03).

Cybersecurity

1. “Google Cloud cybersecurity forecast” (Mandiant : Google Cloud, 2023-11-08).
2. “SolarWinds denies SEC charges over cyber disclosures” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-11-08).
3. “Visa launches cybersecurity training program” by Tatiana Walk-Morris (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-11-07).
4. “ISC2 cybersecurity workforce study” (ISC2, 2023-11).

Economics

1. “Why American manufacturing is becoming less efficient” (The Economist, 2023-11-09).
2. “Austan Goolsbee says Fed will need to monitor risks of overshooting on rates” by Nick Timiraos (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-11-09).
3. “Are politicians brave enough for daredevil economics?” (The Economist, 2023-11-08).
4. “Opening remarks” by Jerome Powell (US Federal Reserve, 2023-11-08). Opening remarks delivered at the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System, Division of Research and Statistics.
5. “Doing economic nationalism the right way” by Dani Rodrik (Project Syndicate, 2023-11-07).
6. “Markets got an unexpected boost from Washington. Will it mark a turning point?” by Sam Goldfarb (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-11-05).
7. “America’s return to strong growth” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-11-02).
8. “The U.S. economy shrugged off the tech bust” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-11-02).
9. “Markets think interest rates could stay high for a decade or more” (The Economist, 2023-11-02).
10. “The world economy is defying gravity. That cannot last” (The Economist, 2023-11-02).
11. “Chair Powell’s press conference: November 1, 2023” by Jerome Powell (US Federal Reserve, 2023-11-01).

Health and medicine

1. “Towards an optimal diet” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-11-05).

Politics

1. “Are the Republicans tired of all the losing?” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-11-08).
2. “Liberalism is losing the information war” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-11-08).
3. “Will Republicans defend the Supreme Court?” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-11-07).
4. “Mitt Romney is the fixed point revealing the Republicans’ slide” (The Economist, 2023-10-26).

Science and technology

1. “Half of cloud transformations are ‘abject failures’” by Matt Ashare (CIO Dive, 2023-11-08).
2. “Always paste without formatting on macOS” by Scott Swezey (The World According to Scott, 2022-09-19).

Society

1. “Thinking your own thoughts in an age of mass distraction” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-11-09).
2. “How social media shapes economic perception” by kyla scanlon (Kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-11-09).
3. “Book bans and librarians who won’t be hushed” by Elaine McArdle (Ed. Magazine, 2023-11-06).
4. “The Gaza war could help set speech free again” (The Economist, 2023-11-02).
5. “The threat from the illiberal left” (The Economist, 2021-09-04).

Other

1. “Commodify your intelligence” by Annalee Newitz (The Hypothesis, 2023-11-07).
2. “How I read” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2023-11-05).
3. “Why I ran away from philosophy because of Sam Bankman-Fried” by Ted Gioia (The Honest Broker, 2023-11-04).
4. “How to make the overwhelming feel routine” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-11-02).
5. “To my Western leftist friends, from your leftist Israeli friend” by Yuval Idan (Medium, 2023-10-25).