- Blockchain and crypto will disappoint and succeed like other technologies
- Plastic straws provide insight into America’s cultural evolution, from eating out to women’s rights to environmental consciousness to political schism.
- Tech companies know more about your credit rating than credit agencies. Now what will they do with the information?
- Jean Tirole, a Nobel-prize-winning economist, on how to limit monopolistic abuses by tech companies.
- Traditional statistics (with confidence intervals, degrees of freedom, etc.) is all wrong. We need to drop the math pretense and use our hunches, as recommended by Bayes.
- A short overview of six books discussing GDP and how it goes wrong
- This 1978 Q&A with Hannah Arendt is very relevant today: “If the ruling classes permit a small crook to become a great crook, he is not entitled to a privileged position in our view of history.”
- Climate change and rising seas expose the new normal of Florida: “We have to start relocating the things we value…”
- This 1965 view of abortion gives us as idea of the America that Trump and the Republicans want. (After watching Trump’s inaugural speech, I predicted they’d go after abortion. Make sure you vote in November if you support a woman’s right to choose when to have a baby.)