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6 June 2024

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).
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13 May 2024

Read : 2024-05-13

Articles for reading

  1. “How French intellectuals ruined the West” by Helen Pluckrose (Quillette, 2024-05-07; republished from Aero Magazine, 2017-03).
  2. “What people got wrong about the film Parasite” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2022-03-31).

Articles for reference

Business and investing

  1. “The smartest people in the room are all listening to the same podcast” by Ben Cohen (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-10).
  2. “How did Jim Simons’s firm make $100 billion? He told his secrets to our reporter” by Gregory Zuckerman (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-10).

Cybersecurity

  1. “Businesses, government see progress in cyber hiring, with exceptions” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-10).

Education

  1. “Against mandatory DEI statements” by Randall Kennedy (Persuasion, 2024-05-10).
  2. “How French intellectuals ruined the West” by Helen Pluckrose (Quillette, 2024-05-07; republished from Aero Magazine, 2017-03).

Law

  1. “Stephen Breyer for the defense” (Harvard Law Bulletin, 2024-05-03).

Mathematics

  1. “What makes 4D weirder than all other dimensions?” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2024-05-13).

Politics

  1. “Nayib Bukele shows how to dismantle a democracy and stay popular” (The Economist, 2023-07-20).
  2. “Robin DiAngelo’s misreading of Michel Foucault” by Jonathan Church (Quillette, 2020-11-25).

Science

  1. “Epic science inside a cubic millimeter of brain” by Anne J. Manning (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-09).

Society

  1. “Welcome to anti-woke hell” by Zaid Jilani (Persuasion, 2024-05-13).
  2. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-05-10). On “The anxious generation”, by Jonathan Haidt.
  3. “Jonathan Haidt blamed tech for teen anxiety. Managing the blowback has become a full-time job.” by Julie Jargon (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-10).
  4. “Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich” (The Economist, 2024-04-16). The story averages tell, and the stories they do not.
  5. “What people got wrong about the film Parasite” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2022-03-31).

Technology

  1. “Kate Crawford: A leading scholar and conscience for A.I.” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-05-12). 51m video recording with transcript.
  2. “The death (again) of the internet as we know it” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-11).

Other

  1. “The morning” by Joseph Kahn (The New York Times, 2024-05-12). Subtitled, “Journalism with impact”, it congratulates the New York Times for industry prizes, for self-styled “[c]overage that demands attention”. Awards and honors in the attention economy.
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10 May 2024

Read : 2024-05-10

Articles for reference

Arts

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

Athletics

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

Business and investing

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

Cybersecurity

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

Economics

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

Education

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

Health, medicine, and wellness

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

Mathematics

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

Politics

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

Science

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

Society

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

Technology

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

Other

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

Read : 2024-04-13

Articles for reading

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

Articles for reference

Athletics

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

Books

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

Economics

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

Education

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

Mathematics

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

Politics

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

Science

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

Society

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

Technology

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

Other

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

Read : 2024-04-07

Articles for reading

  1. “Hacker answers penetration test questions from Twitter” (WIRED, 2023-09-12). 12m video recording with transcript.

Articles for reference

Athletics

  1. “To perform under pressure, shift your perspective” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-03-14).

Books

  1. “Daniel Kahneman’s final exploration of human error” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-03-31).
  2. “A new book rebukes the ‘luxury beliefs’ of America’s upper class” (The Economist, 2024-03-21). On Rob Henderson’s book, “Troubled”.
  3. “Go read some Vernor Vinge” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-03-21).
  4. “How to calm The Anxious Generation” by Maura Kelly (Harvard Public Health, 2024-03-20). An overview of Jonathan Haidt’s book, “The anxious generation”.
  5. “The rise of Western individualism” by Rob Hendreson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-03-17). A review of “The WEIRDest people in the world”, by Joseph Henrich.
  6. “How worried should people be about Generation Z?” (The Economist, 2024-03-15). Book reviews of “The anxious generation” and “Bad therapy”.
  7. “Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn on Einstein on Einstein” by Hanoch Gutfreund, Jürgen Renn (Princeton University Press, 2020-05-18).

Business and investing

  1. “The psychologist who turned the investing world on its head” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-29). On Daniel Kahneman.
  2. “As markets soar, should investors look beyond America?” (The Economist, 2024-03-24).
  3. “More than half of new jobs in math occupations expected to be for data scientists” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-03-14).
  4. “Is the bull market about to turn into a bubble?” (The Economist, 2024-03-11).

Cybersecurity

  1. “A stealth attack came close to compromising the world’s computers” (The Economist, 2024-04-02). On the malware uncovered in XZ utils.
  2. “What we know about the XZ Utils backdoor that almost infected the world” by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica, 2024-04-01).
  3. “Red Hat warns of backdoor in widely used Linux utility” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-04-01).
  4. “U.S. publishes draft federal rules for cyber incident reporting” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-27).
  5. “More warnings emerge about state-linked cyber threats to water infrastructure” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-03-20).
  6. “What to read to understand cyber-security” (The Economist, 2024-02-29).
  7. “Cyber incident reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA) reporting requirements” (US Department of Homeland Security, 2024-??-??).
  8. “Hacker answers penetration test questions from Twitter” (WIRED, 2023-09-12). 12m video recording with transcript.
  9. “North Korea hacked him. So he took down its Internet” by Andy Greenberg (WIRED, 2022-02-02).

Economics

  1. “The employment situation—March 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-04-05).
  2. “The Federal Reserve cleans up its money-printing mess” (The Economist, 2024-04-04).
  3. “Central banks have spent down their credibility” (The Economist, 2024-04-03).
  4. “ADP national employment report—March 2024” (ADP Research Institute, 2024-04-03).
  5. “Job openings and labor turnover—February 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-04-02).
  6. “Information about the information industry’s productivity and growth” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-04-02).
  7. “The decade of the second China shock” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-03-23).
  8. “Why ‘Freakonomics’ failed to transform economics” (The Economist, 2024-03-21).
  9. “Total factor productivity—2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-03-21).
  10. “Why America can’t escape inflation worries” (The Economist, 2024-03-20).
  11. “How we could return to the productivity growth of the 1990s” by Preston Mui (Noahpinion, 2024-03-18).
  12. “Producer price indices—February 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-03-14).
  13. “Consumer price index—February 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-03-12).
  14. “What soft landing?” by Michael R. Strain (Project Syndicate, 2024-03-11).
  15. “The employment situation—February 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-03-08).
  16. “The shift that explains lofty markets: The economy got more productive” by James Mackintosh (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-07).
  17. “ADP national employment report” (ADP, 2024-03-06). Change in US private employment for February 2024: 140k. Employment for January revised up, from 107k to 110k. Pay gains: for job-stayers, decreased to 5.1%; for job-changers, increased from 7.2% to 7.6%.
  18. “Job openings and labor turnover—January 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-03-06).

Education

  1. “The morning” by Sarah Mervosh (The New York Times, 2024-03-29). Subtitled, “We’re covering a crisis of school absenteeism…”.
  2. “Should universities be taking official stances on political, social issues of day?” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-03-06).

Health, medicine, and wellness

  1. “” by A big week for GLP-1 drugs (Eric Topol, 2024-04-06).
  2. “Daniel Drucker: Illuminating the GLP-1 drug’s break out” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-04-06). 37m audio recording with transcript.
  3. “Covid, 4 years on” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-03-13).
  4. “Potential link to an everyday food in cancer findings” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-03-06).
  5. “There’s plastic in my plaque!” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-03-06).
  6. “5 ways poor sleep affects the body” by Katie McCallum (Houston Methodist, 2024-02-29).

Law

  1. “‘What ultimately matters is the substance of the analytical framework…whether that framework is called Chevron’ or not” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2024-04-02). Aditya Bamzai on the Chevron doctrine.
  2. “The Supreme Court and mifepristone” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-25).
  3. “Why separate powers?” (Harvard Law Today, 2024-03-14).

Mathematics

  1. “Collaboration is changing math for the better” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magaine, 2024-03-25).
  2. “Math that connects where we’re going to where we’ve been” by Patrick Honner (Quanta Magazine, 2024-03-22). On recursion.
  3. “Michel Talagrand wins Abel Prize for work wrangling randomness” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2024-03-20).
  4. “How the world takes shape” by Paul Massari (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2024-03-15). An interview with Jordan Ellenberg.
  5. “‘The rest of the world disappears’: Claire Voisin on mathematical creativity” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2024-03-13).
  6. “Unfolding the mysteries of polygonal billiards” by David S. Richeson (Quanta Magazine, 2024-02-15).

Politics

  1. “This Korean election shows how fragile our democracy is” by Jung-Ok Lee (Zócalo, 2024-04-04).
    The lesson from Korea is that establishing democratic structures and institutions is not enough to have real democracy. Real democracy requires deep participation from across society.
  2. “Intel and industrial policy in action” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-03).
  3. “Jonathan Lynn on how government works (and “Yes, Minister”)” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-03-23). 60m audio recording with transcript.
  4. “America is sliding toward Chinese-style capitalism” by Greg Ip (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-21).
  5. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-03-21). Subtitled “We’re covering the rightward shift among voters of color…”.
  6. “We’re falling into Trump’s trap…again” by Sam Kahn (Persuasion, 2024-03-18).
  7. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-03-15). Subtitled, “We’re covering a new Times Magazine story on affirmative action…”.
  8. “China, the West, and The three-body problem” by Jason Garshfield (Quillette, 2024-03-15).
  9. “‘Dune’ is a warning about political heroes and their tribes” (The Economist, 2024-03-14).
  10. “What just happened in San Francisco politics?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-03-13).
  11. “What Nikki Haley accomplished” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-06).

Science

  1. “Dark energy may be weakening, major astrophysics study finds” by Charlie Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2024-04-04).
  2. “How physicists are exploring and rethinking time” by Charle Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2024-04-01).
  3. “Holden Thorp: Straight talk from the editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-03-17).
  4. “The unpredictable strong force continues to surprise physicists” by Charlie Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2024-??-??).

Society

  1. “Alexandra Hudson on why civility matters” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-04-06). 58m audio recording with transcript.
  2. “Jonathan Haidt on the anxious generation” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-03-30). 62 m audio recording with transcript.
  3. “Why Democrats, Republicans, who appear at war these days, really need each other” by Anna Lamb (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-03-28).
  4. “The fallacious case for abolishing the rich” (The Economist, 2024-03-22).
  5. “Why are we so divided? Zero-sum thinking is part of it.” by Christy DeSmith (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-03-21).
  6. “America is concerned about social media. China is, too” (The Economist, 2024-03-21).
  7. “The gap in today’s journalism” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-03-21). On the history and goal of the website.
  8. “Why young men and women are drifting apart” (The Economist, 2024-03-13).
  9. “What would Benjamin Franklin do…about social media?” by Jeff Neal (Harvard Law Today, 2024-03-13).
  10. “It would be nice to live in a world where college-educated adults had the ability to think beyond words” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-02-12).
  11. “Masculinity, motherhood, and American moxie” by Elizabeth Grace Matthew (Law & Liberty, 2024-02-02).

Technology

  1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-04-05). On AI startup Archetype’s prototype connecting AI to real-time sensors in the physical world.
  2. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-03-29). On AI.
  3. “Lifting a few with my chatbot” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-03-27). Sociologist Sherry Turkle on AI.
  4. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-03-22). On digital images.
  5. “Why AI systems still confound researchers” by Ben Brubaker (Quanta Magazine, 2024-03-18).
  6. “This agency is tasked with keeping AI safe. Its offices are crumbling.” by Cat Zakrzewski (The Washington Post, 2024-03-06).
  7. “The Nvidia chips inside powerful AI supercomputers” by Asa Fitch, Eric Niiler, Peter Champelli (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-06).

Technology : AI : Four-part explainer series by The Economist

  1. “How human intelligence inspired AI” (The Economist, 2024-03-06). 43m audio recording. Part 1 of 4.
  2. “How machines learn” (The Economist, 2024-03-13). 43m audio recording. Part 2 of 4.

Other

  1. “What I’ve learned after two years on Substack (April 2024)” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-04-07).
  2. “‘Intellectually, it was sort of whiplash’” by Christine Perkins (Harvard Law Today, 2024-04-04). HLS’s annual “Why I changed my mind” panel. 57 m video recording at end of summary article.
  3. “Daniel Kahneman was a master of teasing questions” (The Economist, 2024-04-04).
  4. “Against agency” by Marilyn Simon (Quillette, 2024-04-04).
  5. “Achieving greatness without falling apart” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-03-28).
  6. “Yes, it’s exciting. Just don’t look at the sun.” by Anne J. Manning (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-04-01). On the upcoming total solar eclipse.
  7. “Warning for journalists: You’re more ignorant than you realize” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-03-25). A summary of a recent talk featuring Marty Baron.
  8. “Why do men dominate chess?” by Carole Hooven (Quillette, 2024-03-22).
  9. “In defense of craft” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-03-20).
  10. “Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-03-17).
  11. “The more you do, the less you accomplish” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-03-06).
  12. “Negotiating the irrational with Daniel Kahneman” by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy (The Harvard Gazette, 2021-12-06).
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4 September 2023

Read : 2023-09-04

Articles for reference

Arts

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

Book : “The meritocracy trap”, by Daniel Markovits

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

Cybersecurity

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

Economics

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

Investing

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

Mathematics

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

Medicine

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

Science and technology

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

Society

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

Other

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

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).
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26 February 2022

Read : 2022-02-26

Articles for reading:

  1. “Mr. Putin launches a sequel to the Cold War” by The Editorial Board (The NY Times, 2022-02-24).
  2. “Avi Loeb: Aliens, black holes, and the mystery of the Oumuamua” by Lex Fridman (YouTube, 2021-01-13). 2h44m video.
  3. “Understanding the Fed’s hawkish pivot” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas, 2022-02-19).
  4. “The C.D.C. isn’t publishing large portions of the covid data it collects” by Apoorva Mandavilli (The NY Times, 2022-02-20).
    For more than a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collected data on hospitalizations for Covid-19 in the United States and broken it down by age, race and vaccination status. But it has not made most of the information public.
  5. “Cryptographers achieve perfect secrecy with imperfect devices” by Mordechai Rorvig (Quanta Magazine, 2022-02-25).

Articles on Ukraine:

  1. “Russian incursion into Ukraine ‘very likely’, says John B. Bellinger III ’86” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2022-02-10).
  2. “Russian buildup near Ukraine features potent weapons systems, well-trained troops” by Michael R. Gordon, Max Rust (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-02-13).
  3. “Biden speaks to Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky as prospect of conflict looms” by Alex Leary, Laurence Norman (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-02-13).
  4. “Would a war in Ukraine lead to a wider cyber-conflict?” (The Economist, 2022-02-23).
  5. “A moment of clarity” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-02-24). Subtitle: “The Russian invasion of Ukraine should wake us up.”
  6. “Wide range of possible targets for Russian cyber strikes, from infrastructure to smartphones” by Colleen Walsh (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-02-24).
  7. “How invasion may hit U.S., global economies” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-02-24).
  8. “What happens next in Ukraine?” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-02-24).

Articles for reference:

  1. “You’ve done self care. You’ve languished. Now try this.” by Brad Stulberg (The NY Times, 2022-02-13).
  2. “Can democrats see what’s coming?” by Ezra Klein (The NY Times, 2022-02-12).
  3. “What would happen if financial markets crashed?” (The Economist, 2022-02-12).
  4. “Cathie Wood’s ARK stays the course, betting big on innovation” by Michael Wursthorn (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-02-13).
  5. “Are we all narcissists?” by Jackie Mansky (Zócalo, 2022-02-11).
  6. “The sects that rejected 19th-century sex” by Stewart Davenport (Zócalo, 2022-02-14).
  7. “A poem that would not let me go” by Drea Brown (Zócalo, 2020-05-31).
  8. “High-flying inflation—are central banks still in control?” (The Economist, 2022-02-16). 38m podcast.
  9. “Machine learning becomes a mathematical collaborator” by Kelsey Houston-Edwards (Quanta Magazine, 2022-02-15).
  10. “What happens when you do—or don’t—identify with your achievement” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2022-02).
  11. “The rejection of Bidenomics” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-02-19).
  12. “The professor who beat roulette” by Zachary Crockett (The Hustle, 2019-05-11).
  13. “Stock market got you worried? Write a D-Day note” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-02-18).
  14. “UC Berkeley and American stagnation” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas, 2022-02-21).
  15. “Interview: Emi Nakamura, macroeconomist” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-02-21).
  16. “How to be perfect” by Colleen Walsh (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-02-18). A short interview with Michael Schur, creator of the TV comedy “The good place”.
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