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A bit on time management, a bit on talent, a bit on organizational capital, and indeed a bit on almost everything! Auren is a very good interviewer, here is the link, 43 minutes. The post My podcast with Auren Hoffman appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.         CommentsHi Tyler, You whiffed as badly as I have every heard you ... by Dennis AdsitGood podcast. It's...

1. Nona Gaprindashvili, female chess pioneer, to sue Netflix (NYT). 2. World Bank to discontinue Doing Business index (NYT).  And more coverage here. 3. A sensory revolution in video games? 4. Sondheim writing a new show at age 91 (NYT). 5. The world’s most expensive animals. 6. Don’t believe the Haiti/DR graph. The post Friday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.         CommentsIn...

Tim Roughgarden, a top-notch computer scientist (co-winner of a Gödel Prize), is teaching a class on blockchains. He’s only just begun to put up material but I liked this bit of “hype” from Lecture One. It’s worth recognizing that we’re currently in a particular moment in time, witnessing a new area of computer science blossom […] The post Gödel Prize Winners Don’t Cosplay appeared...

I will be doing a Conversation with him.  From Wikipedia: David Mark Rubenstein (born August 11, 1949) is an American billionaire businessman. A former government official and lawyer, he is a co-founder and co-executive chairman of the private equity firm The Carlyle Group,[ a global private equity investment company based in Washington, D.C. He is […] The post What should I ask David Rubinstein?...

1. Susan McKay, Northern Protestants on Shifting Ground, and also Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People.  These two books straddle a journalistic and anthropological approach to what the titles indicate.  As one Protestant in the text remarked, Irish reunification would work just fine, it is the ten years getting there that everyone is afraid of.  It […] The post What I’ve been reading on Ireland...

1. “Moreover, we find a marked decay in background parental relatedness co-occurring with or shortly after the advent of sedentary agriculture.” 2. Dwarkesh on Emergent Ventures and searching for talent. 3. The first mention of America in European chronicles? 4. New issue of Works in Progress.  Including update on the future of weight loss. 5. […] The post Thursday assorted links appeared first on...

Scott Gottlieb’s Uncontrolled Spread is superb. I reviewed it for the WSJ. Here’s one bit: If there’s one overarching theme of “Uncontrolled Spread,” it’s that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention failed utterly. It’s now well known that the CDC didn’t follow standard operating procedures in its own labs, resulting in contamination and a […] The post Scott Gottlieb’s Uncontrolled Spread appeared first...

A pastor is encouraging people to donate to his Tulsa church so they can become an online member and get his signature on a religious exemption from coronavirus vaccine mandates. The pastor, Jackson Lahmeyer, is a 29-year-old small-business owner running in the Republican primary challenge to Sen. James Lankford in 2022. Lahmeyer, who leads Sheridan […] The post Covid markets in everything appeared first...

I thought this one worthy of a redux, here are a few segments: First, most emergency rooms are not equipped to handle a very high volume of cases, especially infectious diseases…The general economic problem is that emergency rooms typically are not equipped with full surge capacity, nor are there enough emergency room add-ons or substitutes […] The post My January 2020 Bloomberg column on...

1. Big excerpt of me on crypto, link now corrected, with Ezra Klein. 2. What should we conclude from the Bangladesh mask study? 3. New Yorker profile of Colm Tóibín. 4. It seems the NBA won’t require player vaccinations? 5. History of mRNA vaccines. 6. New Emily Oster Covid-19 School Data Hub, valuable. 7. Hedgehogs […] The post Wednesday assorted links appeared first on...

The Biden administration says booster shots are coming, but the FDA hasn’t decided on the dose. Moderna wants a half-shot booster. Pfizer a full shot. But could the best dose for Americans and for the world be even less? COVID-19 vaccines are the first successful use of mRNA vaccine technology, so a lot remains unknown. […] The post What’s the Right Dose for Boosters?...

But a shift in investor sentiment suggests the days of China’s youth going under the knife in pursuit of perfection might be numbered, as President Xi Jinping tries to reshape the country’s cultural and business landscape as part of a “common prosperity” drive. S ince the start of July, the market value of the country’s […] The post China campaign of the day appeared...

That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one bit: Before the vaccines came along, it made great sense to enforce masking norms. If infections could be shifted into the future, an eventually vaccinated citizenry would be much better protected. There is a less obvious corollary: Those same mask norms make less […] The post Covid and intertemporal substitution appeared first...

By Lu Liu, et.al., in Nature: Across a range of creative domains, individual careers are characterized by hot streaks, which are bursts of high-impact works clustered together in close succession. Yet it remains unclear if there are any regularities underlying the beginning of hot streaks. Here, we analyze career histories of artists, film directors, and […] The post Understanding the onset of hot streaks...

A few things I have watched recently: The Courier–a taut, spy drama about the true story of Greville Wynne, an ordinary British businessman who was recruited by the British and American spy services to courier information in the 1960s from Russian agent Oleg Penkovsky–information that proved crucial to the United States during the Cuban Missile […] The post What to Watch appeared first on...

1. Mike Makowsky good career advice for those economists (and others?) coming out of non-elite schools. 2. Bryan Caplan on his home schooling experience. 3. BBC covers EV India winner and his fight against air pollution. 4. Why young Koreans are doing so well in classical music. 5. Art Blakey and Lee Morgan in concert. […] The post Tuesday assorted links appeared first on...

People in Derry are still talking about the 1680s…it is bad to be a “Lundy,” namely a traitor to your cause but the bar here has become a high one.  You are either with them or against them. The 17th century city wall seems fully intact, the buildings are splendid, and the green, wet, and […] The post Derry notes, Northern Ireland’s second largest...

A few of you asked for follow-ups, given my discussion with Ezra Klein.  Here is one paper that makes me skeptical: Exploiting admission thresholds in a Regression Discontinuity Design, we study the causal effects of daycare at age 0–2 on cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes at age 8–14. One additional month in daycare reduces IQ by […] The post Why I am reluctant to endorse...

1. You can now buy a $475 NFT ticket to see Beeple’s $69 million NFT at an IRL party.  The ticket also includes one drink. 2. “We find that young players benefited at the expense of older players and that the disruptive effects of the new [tennis] racquets persisted over two to four generations.” 3. […] The post Monday assorted links appeared first on...

Operation Warp Speed was by far the most successful government program against COVID. But as of yet there is very little discussion or history of the program. As just an indication I looked for references in a bunch of pandemic books to General Perna who co-led OWS with Moncef Slaoui. Michael Lewis in The Premonition […] The post Operation Warp Speed: A Story Yet...

We find that immigration increases US life expectancy by 1.5 years for men and 1.4 years for women. Over half of these contributions occur at the prime working ages of 25–64. The difference between foreign-born and US-born mortality has grown substantially since 1990, with the ratio of US-born to foreign-born mortality rates nearly doubling by […] The post Immigration to the U.S. is correlated...

“Add Dx of schizophrenia for use of Haldol,” read the doctor’s order, using the medical shorthand for “diagnosis.” But there was no evidence that Mr. Blakeney actually had schizophrenia. Antipsychotic drugs — which for decades have faced criticism as “chemical straitjackets” — are dangerous for older people with dementia, nearly doubling their chance of death from heart problems, […] The post Yet another underreported medical scandal —...

1. Stephen comments on Cutler and Glaeser. 2. Edward Tufte landscape sculpture park in Connecticut. 3. Crypto use growing in Afghanistan (WSJ). 4. On the role of institutions in the British Industrial Revolution. 5. New Craig Palsson Substack on economics and Haiti. 6. When will NHS waiting times return to pre-pandemic levels? The post Sunday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.         CommentsIn...

The Ig Nobel Prize in Economics this year went to Pavlo Blavatskyy for Obesity of politicians and corruption in post-Soviet countries: We collected 299 frontal face images of 2017 cabinet ministers from 15 post-Soviet states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan). For each image, the […] The post The Ig Nobel Prizes appeared first...