Monday, July 1, 2019

Primary polls, noise and path dependency

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As with rational actors and efficient markets, the strong form of the wisdom of crowds theory is too silly to bother with -- a collection of...
Friday, June 28, 2019

Believe it or not, if I had more time, I'd tie Chucky in with the Joe Biden campaign

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I've been meaning to do a thread about how we have come to put irrationally high value on name recognition and known IP. Chipman's ...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

You know the writers are running out of ideas when they start doing cross-overs

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From Steve Moore’s New Crypto Start-up Is Dumb Even by Crypto Start-up Standards by Josh Barro Here’s how Moynihan and Gasparino descri...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Paul Krugman is just scratching the surface here, but it's a valuable scratch

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In fairness, this is only a prelude to a longer talk, but even if he stopped here, Krugman would deserve credit for clearly laying out poi...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Tuesday Tweets

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I've probably said this before, but I wonder how much of the postwar futurism that seems wildly optimistic today would have been viable ...
Monday, June 24, 2019

There's even a Gwyneth Paltrow connection

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There's a lot to unpack in this piece by Reeves Wiedeman, but here are a few points I want to highlight. Its core business is simple...
Friday, June 21, 2019

"Start your day a little bit better"

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A fun piece of marketing history from a magazine that's consistently better than it ought to be.  In many ways, the cereal flak...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Repost -- We'll be revisiting this again

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Thursday, March 2, 2017 There will be safe seats. There are no safe seats. In 2017, we have a perfect example of when not to use stat...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Running out of snarky Musk titles

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I know we've covered this before, but this is such an apt example of how Elon Musk still doesn't get engineering, despite being surr...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Tuesday Tweets

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I've been going back and forth on posting this for years. It makes more sense in periods of high unemployment. Maybe I'll dust it o...
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Monday, June 17, 2019

The sad part is I'm sure this isn't the first time the worlds of cryptocurrency and Perlstein's "the Long Con" have collided

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From Madison Malone Kircher writing for New York Magazine. In the name of the father, the son, and the HODL spirit … amen. Rick Santo...
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Friday, June 14, 2019

Opossum is a real mood killer of a safe word

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More solid work from the Last Week Tonight team.
Thursday, June 13, 2019

And if we committed to tithing to Uber, the company would break even within the decade

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You always have to be careful reading too much into an anecdote, particularly one that came to your attention via social media, but they c...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Once you're on the list, you're pretty much set.

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Parul Sehgal has a devastating review of the latest from Naomi Wolf, but while Sehgal is being justly praised for her sharp and relentless ...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Tuesday Tweets

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Some comments on Hyperloop https://t.co/Q8ndOz9ixf — David M. Levinson (@trnsprtst) June 10, 2019 As Ryanair moves to publish its...