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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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4 May 2024

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).
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7 March 2024

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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5 January 2024

Read : 2024-01-05

Articles for reading

  1. “10 new ideas to help you perform your best” by Clay Skipper (The Growth Equation, 2024-01-04).

Articles for reference

Cybersecurity

  1. “For cyber companies, economic turbulence in 2023 sets up uncertain 2024” by Catherine Stupp, James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-01-03).
  2. “A ‘recipe for disaster’: Insiders warned Meta’s privacy push would shield child predators” by Jeff Horwitz, Katherine Blunt (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-22).
  3. “Google fixes 8th Chrome zero-day exploited in attacks this year” by Sergiu Gatlan (Bleeping Computer, 2023-12-20).
  4. “An iPhone thief explains how he steals your passcode and bank account” by Joanna Stern (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-20).

Economics

  1. “The employment situation—December 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-01-05). The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for December 2023 is reported at +216k. The totals for October 2023 and November 2023 were both revised down, by 45k and 26k (30% and 13% of the previously reported totals), respectively.
  2. “Has America really escaped inflation?” (The Economist, 2024-01-03).
  3. “ADP national employment report—December 2023” (ADP, 2024-01-04).
  4. “Job openings and labor turnover—November 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-01-03).
  5. “The 2024 economic outlook: Growing confidence” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-12-28).
  6. “2023 economic year-in-review” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-12-23).
  7. “Personal income and outlays, November 2023” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2023-12-22).

Education : Harvard

  1. “What just happened at Harvard is bigger than me” by Claudine Gay (The New York Times, 2024-01-03).
  2. “Harvard president resigns after mounting plagiarism accusations” by Jennifer Schuessler, Anemona Hartocollis, Michael Levenson, Alan Blinder (The New York Times, 2024-01-03).
  3. “The decline and fall of Harvard’s president” (The Economist, 2024-01-03).
  4. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-01-03). Subtitled, “We’re covering the resignation of Harvard’s president…”.
  5. “Personal news” by Claudine Gay (Harvard University, 2024-01-02).
  6. “Statement from the Harvard Corporation: President Gay” by The Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard University, 2024-01-02).
  7. “Harvard President Claudine Gay steps down; Provost Alan Garber to serve as interim leader” (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-01-02).
  8. “Behind the campaign to take down Harvard’s Claudine Gay” by Douglas Belkin, Arian Campo-Flores (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-29).
  9. “What did Wall Street get right about markets this year? Not much” by Gunjan Banerji (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-29).

Health and medicine

  1. “Tony Wyss-Coray: The science of aging” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-12-26). 32m audio recording with full transcript.

Investing

  1. “Best value stocks for 2024” by Chris Taylor (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-17).
  2. “How the young should invest” (The Economist, 2023-11-16).

Politics

  1. “Taiwan’s foreign minister on what’s at stake in the coming election” by Joseph Wu (The Economist, 2024-01-03).
  2. “Welcome to the era of AI nationalism” (The Economist, 2024-01-01).

Science and technology

  1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-01-05). On AI hallucinations.

Society

  1. “Liberalism’s forever crisis” by Jan-Werner Mueller (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-05).
  2. “10 trends to watch in 2024” by Rachel Layne (Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 2024-01-02).
  3. “2024 outlook: Rate cuts and the influencer apocalypse” by kyla scanlon (Kyla’s Newsletter, 2024-01-02).
  4. “The morning” by David Leonhardt, Lyna Bentahar (The New York Times, 2023-12-22). Subtitled “We’re covering the rebirth of local journalism…”. The newsletter provides two quotes from journalists leading local-news initiatives who claim “the demise of local news wouldn’t cost very much money to reverse” (because—thankfully?!—”[m]ost journalists don’t make a lot of money”) and “real progress is underway”, but it provides no evidence (that I saw). Is this reporting on what is, or what the authors hope to be? on fact, or on ideology? In any case, I applaud The New York Times for giving local journalists a spotlight and a platform. (Keen coverage of local news is how I hope society to be.)
  5. “Games people play” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2022-11-13). On the book “Games people play”, by Eric Berne. Part one of three. (The later two posts are currently paywalled.)

Other

  1. “10 new ideas to help you perform your best” by Clay Skipper (The Growth Equation, 2024-01-04).
  2. “Evolve Move Play, sociopaths, romantic affairs” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-01-04).
  3. “It hurts as much as it’s worth” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2023-12-31).
  4. “Quillette editors’ choice 2023” by Zoe Booth (Quillette, 2023-12-22).
  5. “How to start a healthy habit (and keep it)” by Christina Pérez (Vogue, 2023-12-02).
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6 December 2023

Read : 2023-12-06

Articles for reference

Cybersecurity

  1. “Secure by design alert” (US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, 2023-11-29).
  2. “Amazon CSO likens security to psychological chess matches” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-11-28).
  3. “Okta hack update shows challenges in rapid cyber disclosures” by James Rundle, Catherine Stupp, Kim S. Nash (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-11-29).
  4. “The power of storytelling in cybersecurity training” by Rick Wash (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-11-25).
  5. “Virtual credit cards: What are they and should you use them?” by Cheryl Winokur Munk (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-11-20).
  6. “CISA explains how to apply secure-by-design principles” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-11-20).
  7. “CISA releases the Mitigation guide: healthcare and public health (HPH) sector” (CISA, 2023-11-17). Link to CISA’s “Mitigation guide: healthcare and public health (HPH) sector”.
    This guide provides defensive mitigation strategy recommendations and best practices to combat pervasive cyber threats affecting this critical infrastructure sector. It also identifies known vulnerabilities for organizations to assess their networks and minimize risks before intrusions occur.

Economics

  1. “ADP National Employment Report: November 2023” (ADP, 2023-12-06).
  2. “Higher interest rates are here to stay” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2023-12-05).
  3. “The economic fallout of student loan forbearance ending” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-12-04).
  4. “The most important inflation indicator shows more cooling ahead” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-11-30).
  5. “Personal income and outlays, October 2023” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2023-11-30).
  6. “Beware the new consensus on the global economy” by Mohamed A. El-Erian (Project Syndicate, 2023-11-29).
  7. “The roaring 20s are back on track” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-11-18).
  8. “The revenge of the inflation doves” (Project Syndicate, 2023-11-17). A collection of recent essays on recent disinflation in the US.
  9. “Did the Fed rein in inflation?” by Jeffrey Frankel (Project Syndicate, 2023-11-17).
  10. “Why mainstream economics got inflation wrong” by James K. Galbraith (Project Syndicate, 2023-11-15). More naming names than analyzing arguments?

Education

  1. “Verizon Skill Forward” (edX, 2023). Free access to selected courses in “high-growth fields” to US based learners age 18 and older.
  2. “Antisemitism and other forms of hate have no place at Harvard” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-12-05).
  3. “Covid-19 was a disaster for the world’s schoolchildren” (The Economist, 2023-12-05). Leader.
  4. “The pandemic’s toll on schooling emerges in terrible exam results” (The Economist, 2023-12-05). Report.
  5. “How they found the work they were ‘meant’ to do” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-12-01).
  6. “Committee to review request to dename Winthrop House” by Nikki Rojas (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-11-16).
  7. “The startling evidence on learning loss is in” by The Editorial Board (The New York Times, 2023-11-18). Startling? To whom? Is “startling” different from “unexpected”? (Yes.) Who decided to close schools, to keep them closed or to reopen them, for what reasons and with what evidence? Who (especially, perhaps, influential media outlets) supported the decisions that led to this “startling” learning loss, for what reasons and with what evidence? Do the authors attempt to compare outcomes (and risks) from different schools or regions that took different approaches to schooling during the first years of the pandemic? or do they feed us a ready-made conclusion and their desired course of action? or do they do something else?
    Read critically.

Investing

  1. “Who made millions trading the October 7th attacks?” (The Economist, 2023-12-05).

Law

  1. “The argument for overturning Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins” by Jeff Neal (Harvard Law Today, 2023-11-17). Embedded 1h04m audio-video recording of talk by Stephen Sachs.

Mathematics

  1. “Complexity theory’s 50-year journey to the limits of knowledge” by Ben Brubaker (Quanta Magazine, 2023-08-17).

Medicine

  1. “From a detour to global dominance” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-12-05). On the SARS-CoV-2 JN.1 variant.

Politics

  1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-12-06). Subtitled “We’re covering the potential comeback of labor unions…”.
  2. “Will US–Indian relations be hurt by India’s assassination scheme?” (The Economist, 2023-12-05).
  3. “What anti-Trumpism is missing” by Daron Acemoglu (Project Syndicate, 2023-11-29).

Science and technology

  1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-12-01). On ChatGPT and AI.
  2. “AWS expands AI training portfolio” by Matt Ashare (CIO Dive, 2023-11-27).
  3. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-11-17). On the visions of the founders of Otter.ai and Rewind.

Society

  1. “Elon Musk’s messiah complex may bring him down” (The Economist, 2023-12-05).
  2. “Vibes vs. data” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-12-03).
  3. “Modern wisdom, language games, broken windows” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2023-11-30). Embedded 1h49m audio-video recording.
  4. “The morning” by German Lopez (The New York Times, 2023-11-29). Subtitled, “We’re covering claims of a shoplifting boom…”
  5. “Sorry you feel that way: why passive aggression took over the world” by Josh Cohen (The Economist, 2023-11-21).
  6. “Why dumb ideas capture smart and successful people” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2023-11-19).

Other

  1. “Is it okay if my laptop is always plugged in so that my battery is charged 100%?” (Quora, ????).
  2. “The 15 best books of 2023 for sustainable excellence and well-being” by Brad Stulberg, Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-??-??).
  3. “Nobody finishes reading my books” by Paul Bloom (Small Potatoes, 2023-11-28).
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27 October 2023

Read : 2023-10-27

Articles for reading

  1. “Love after life: Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman’s extraordinary letter to his departed wife” by Maria Popova (The Marginalian, 2017-10-17).
  2. “Who owns the GOP?” by Theda Skocpol (Dissent Magazine, 2016-02-03).

Articles for reference

Athletics

  1. “Graham Blanks can really motor” by Christy DeSmith (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-10-26).

Coding

  1. “Documenting Python code: A complete guide” by James Mertz (Real Python, ????).

Cybersecurity

  1. “LinkedIn tests generative AI to field cybersecurity questions from employees and suppliers” by Catherine Stupp (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-10-25).
  2. “The race to save our secrets from the computers of the future” by Zach Montague (The New York Times, 2023-10-22).
  3. “The top cybersecurity conferences to attend in 2024” by Naomi Eide (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-10-13).
  4. “Generative AI could revolutionize email—for hackers” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-09-06).
  5. “Don’t let Google manage your passwords” by Neil J. Rubenking (PCMag, 2023-04-30).

Economics

  1. “Personal income and outlays, September 2023” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2023-10-27).
  2. “Great news about American wealth” by Noah Smith (2023-10-27).
  3. “America’s record wealth boom” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-10-26).
  4. “Gross domestic product, third quarter 2023 (advance estimate)” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2023-10-26).
  5. “What can the Fed do about the deficit? Nothing” by Greg Ip (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-10-25).

Medicine

  1. “How health-care costs stopped rising” (The Economist, 2023-10-26).
  2. “The virus takes a detour in its evolutionary arc” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-10-25). “The virus” being SARS-CoV-2.

Politics

  1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-10-27). On regulating “big tech”.
  2. “Can America handle two wars, and maybe a third?” (The Economist, 2023-10-24).
  3. “Who owns the GOP?” by Theda Skocpol (Dissent Magazine, 2016-02-03).

Science and technology

  1. “A new generation of mathematicians pushes prime number barriers” by Erica Klarreich (Quanta Magazine, 2023-10-26).
  2. “Biden moves to embrace AI as national security tool in executive order” by John D. McKinnon, Sabrina Siddiqui, Dustin Volz (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-10-25).
  3. “The world wants to regulate AI, but does not quite know how” (The Economist, 2023-10-24).

Society

  1. “Other countries put lives before guns. Why can’t we?” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-10-26).
  2. “The TikTok girl is right: Modernity and the 9-to-5” by kyla scanlon (Kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-10-26).
  3. “The American socialist worldview is just totally broken (repost)” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-10-26).
  4. “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the rich” by Robert Skidelsky (Project Syndicate, 2023-10-24). On the books “The new leviathans” by John Gray and “Technofeudalism” by Yanis Varoufakis.
  5. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-10-24). Subtitled, “We’re covering the state of the American dream…”—by which Mr. Leonhardt means “my new and first book, in which I am well pleased, and which covers my views on this topic”.
  6. “America needs a bigger, better bureaucracy” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-10-22).
  7. “Fighting misinformation one tweet at a time” by Giulia Cambieri (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2023-10-20).

Other

  1. “The key to a strong identity: Diversity your sense of self” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-10-26).
  2. “CEO morning routines are bananas. So I tried a few.” by Ray A. Smith (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-10-25).
  3. “Sign acts: The weird, wonderful world of prophetic communication” by Whitney Woollard (BibleProject, 2018).
  4. “Love after life: Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman’s extraordinary letter to his departed wife” by Maria Popova (The Marginalian, 2017-10-17).
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1 October 2023

Read : 2023-10-01

Articles for reading

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

Articles for reference

Cybersecurity

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

Economics

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

Health and medicine

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

Law

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

Politics

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

Science and technology

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

Society

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

Other

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

Read : 2023-07-28

Articles for reference

Arts

  1. “Everyone calls it a classic. But who’s everyone, and why am I so bored?” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-07-25).

Consumer financial protection

  1. “Data breaches: What to know, what to do” (Federal Trade Commission, 2016-09).
  2. “What to know about credit freezes and fraud alerts” (Federal Trade Commission, 2021-05).

Cybersecurity

  1. “Valid account credentials are behind most cyber intrusions, CISA finds” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-07-28).
    Valid credential compromise combined with spear-phishing attacks accounts for nearly 90% of infiltrations last year.
  2. “SEC approves cyber incident-reporting rules for public companies” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-07-26).
  3. “SEC votes to overhaul disclosure rules for material cyber events” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-07-26).
  4. “EV charging networks prepare for cyberattacks” by Catherine Stupp (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-07-14).
  5. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-07-21). About encryption.
  6. “Security incident update and recommended actions” (LastPass, 2023-03-01).

Economics

  1. “Personal income and outlays, June 2023” (BEA, 2023-07-28).
  2. “Mike Bird and Noah Smith debate industrial policy” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-07-28).
  3. “US–China decoupling by the numbers” by Stephen S. Roach (Project Syndicate, 2023-07-26).
  4. “‘Something very strange’ explains why a US recession has been delayed” by Matthew Fox (Business Insider, 2023-07-20). If firms that refinance debt into long-term, low-rate fixed debt when interest rates are near zero are “strange”. (Some might even call it “rational”.)
  5. “The economic impact of the student loan restart” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-07-18).

Education

  1. “The Morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-07-24). Subtitled, “We’re covering a new look at college admissions…”
  2. “Post-covid learning losses” by Ryan Doan-Nguyen (Harvard Magazine, 2023-07-17).

History

  1. “Closer look at ‘father of the atomic bomb’” by Samantha Laine Perfas (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-07-19).

Investing

  1. “Investors are seized by optimism. Can the bull market last?” (The Economist, 2023-07-25).

Politics

  1. “Facebook bowed to White House pressure, removed covid posts” by Ryan Tracy (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-07-28).
  2. “The China 2023 series” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-07-23). A list of Smith’s 2023-dated posts about China.

Science and technology

  1. “Plaintext” by Paresh Dave (WIRED, 2023-07-28). About AI.
  2. “One of the ‘godfathers of AI’ airs his concerns” by Yoshua Bengio (The Economist, 2023-07-21).

Society

  1. “The Hollywood writers strike & the future of TV” (NPR : Fresh Air, 2023-05-25). 44m audio interview with John Koblin of the New York Times.

Other

  1. “What it means to ‘own your seat’” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-07-26).
  2. “A girl’s guide to geek guys” by Mikki Halpin, Victoria Maat (????).
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