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 : 2024-05-10

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.

Read : 2024-02-13

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “Volume up! How to get thicker hair” by Tish Weinstock, Lauren Murdoch-Smith (Vogue, 2024-02-06).

Athletics

1. “Volleyball adds Jon Wong as assistant coach” by Daniel Hansen (Rice Owls, 2024-02-12).

Business and investing

1. “America’s economy is booming. So why are bosses worried?” (The Economist, 2024-02-04).
2. “Tech job postings, sector hiring rebound in January” by Roberto Torres (CIO Dive, 2024-02-02).

Cybersecurity

1. “CISA, FBI confirm critical infrastructure intrusions by China-linked hackers” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-02-07).
2. “2024 JCDC priorities” (US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, ????).

Economics

1. “Consumer price index—January 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-02-13).
2. “The danger of forgetting the 2023 banking crisis” by Raghuram G. Rajan, Viral V. Acharya (Project Syndicate, 2024-02-08).
3. “What is the Fed thinking?” by J. Bradford DeLong (Project Syndicate, 2024-02-05).
4. “The next phase of our inflation journey” by Michael Spence (Project Syndicate, 2024-02-02).

Education

1. “A comeback for merit in college admissions” by Seth Moskowitz (Persuasion, 2024-02-09).
2. “The SAT is a pathway to more college diversity, not less” by Rob Henderson (The Boston Globe, 2024-02-06).
3. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-02-06). Subtitled, “We’re covering a policy change by Dartmouth College…”.
4. “Universities are failing to boost economic growth” (The Economist, 2024-02-05).

Medicine

1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-02-13). Subtitled, “We’re covering U.S. policy on Covid shots for children…”.
2. “Jim Collins: Discovery of the first new structural class of antibiotics in decades, using A.I.” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-02-13). 29m audio recording with full transcript.

Politics

1. “The morning” by Michael Crowley (The New York Times, 2024-02-08). Subtitled, “With the Gaza war testing the U.S.–Israel relationship, my colleague Michael Crowley uses today’s newsletter to explain why each partner sees the next phase so differently.”
2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-02-07). Subtitled, “We’re covering Republicans and the border bill…”.

Science and technology

1. “Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future” (The Economist, 2024-02-08).

   [I]t embodies big trends in war: a shift towards small, cheap and disposable weapons; the increasing use of consumer technology; and the drift towards autonomy in battle. Because of these trends, drone technology will spread rapidly from armies to militias, terrorists and criminals.

2. “How cheap drones are transforming warfare in Ukraine” (The Economist, 2024-02-05).

Society

1. “A bunch of handy charts about climate change” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-02-13).
2. “America’s lost boys and me” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-02-11).
3. “The Grand Canyon-sized chasm between elites and ordinary Americans” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-02-04).

Other

1. “Isaiah Berlin and the tragedy of pluralism” by Damon Linker (Persuasion, 2024-02-07).

Read : 2023-12-21

Articles for reading

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

Articles for reference

Business

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

Cybersecurity

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

Economics

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

Education

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

Health and medicine

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

Mathematics

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

Politics

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

Science and technology

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

Society

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

Other

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

Read : 2023-12-13

Articles for reference

Current events

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

Cybersecurity

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

Economics

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

Education

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

Medicine

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

Politics

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

Science

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

Society

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

Technology

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

Other

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

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Articles for reading

1. “Journalism’s essential value” by A.G. Sulzberger (Columbia Journalism Review, 2023-05-15).
2. “Attention shoppers!” by Michael H. Goldhaber (WIRED, 1997-12-01).

Articles for reference

Cybersecurity

1. “‘Post-quantum’ cryptograph scheme is cracked on a laptop” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2022-08-24). On the cracking of SIDH.
2. “The untold story of the boldest supply-chain hack ever” by Kim Zetter (WIRED, 2023-05-02).
3. “Hate passwords? It’s time to try passkeys” by Nicole Ngyuen (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-05-14).
4. “Cybersecurity leaders suffer burnout as pressures of the job intensify” by Catherine Strupp (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-05-17).
5. “How one of Vladimir Putin’s most prized hacking units got pwned by the FBI” by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica, 2023-05-10).
6. “‘Fancy Bear Goes Phishing’ charts the evolution of hacking” (The Economist, 2023-05-17).
7. “Migration to post-quantum cryptography: Preparation for considering the implementation and adoption of quantum-safe cryptography (preliminary draft)” by William Newhouse et al. (NIST, 2023-04-24).

Economics

1. “A softer landing on a longer runway?” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-05-20).
2. “Businesses are in for a mighty debt hangover” (The Economist, 2023-05-16).
3. “As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance” (The Economist, 2023-05-15).
4. “Job openings reach record highs in 2022 as the labor market recovery continues” (BLS, 2023-05).
5. “Robert Lucas was a giant of macroeconomics” (The Economist, 2023-05-18).
6. “Thus passes Robert Lucas” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-05-16).

Investing

1. “Young investors in college clubs embrace wild market ride” by Hannah Miao (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-05-20).

Law

1. “Decoding the U.N. cybercrime treaty” by Paige Collings, Katitza Rodriguez (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2023-04-07).

Mathematics

1. “The most important machine that was never built” by Sheon Han (Quanta Magazine, 2023-05-03). On the Turing machine.
2. “How Gödel’s proof works” by Natalie Wolchover (Quanta Magazine, 2020-07-14).

Politics

1. “The financial system is slipping into state control” (The Economist, 2023-05-18).
2. “Biden and Schumer voted against debt limit increases during unified GOP government” (Senate Republican Communications Center, 2021-10-04). I include this for its linked references to US Congressional records (statements and votes).

Science and technology

1. “The promise of crypto has not lived up to its initial excitement” (The Economist, 2023-05-15).
2. “How technology has changed the world since I was young” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-05-15).

Society

1. “AI to aid democracy” by Henry Farrell, Nathan Sanders, Bruce Schneier (Slate, 2023-04).

Other

1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-05-15). Subtitled, “The Time’s publisher makes the case for journalistic independence…”
2. “Journalism’s essential value” by A.G. Sulzberger (Columbia Journalism Review, 2023-05-15).
3. “Attention shoppers!” by Michael H. Goldhaber (WIRED, 1997-12-01).
4. “Listen to Kobe: Spend time alone in your head” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-05-18).
5. “The case for obligation” by Brad Stulberg (The New York Times, 2023-05-20).
6. “Interview: Dan Wang, China specialist” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-05-18).