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19 Mar 2023 » My favourite books 2022
14 Nov 2021 » My favourite books 2021
07 Feb 2021 » Breadth first
06 Dec 2020 » My favourite books 2020
21 Jun 2020 » My first two years as an analytics consultant
26 Apr 2020 » Old and not-so-rusty: Successful founders are middle-aged
11 Apr 2020 » Remote working
08 Dec 2019 » My favourite books 2019
01 Dec 2019 » Learning to work in hierarchies
14 Jul 2019 » La Ville R(ose)
20 Jan 2019 » Moving from an economics PhD to the private sector (analytics consulting)
19 Dec 2018 » NeurIPS 2018
25 Nov 2018 » My favourite books 2018
01 Oct 2018 » Collected links
20 Sep 2018 » Cherry blossoms in Kyoto, 801-2015
08 Sep 2018 » Collected links
26 Aug 2018 » Enlighten Me How?
09 Aug 2018 » Alternatives
22 Jun 2018 » Inventing code
13 May 2018 » Collected links
01 May 2018 » “Better Presentations”, by Jonathan Schwabish
24 Apr 2018 » H(el)P(ful) filtering
21 Apr 2018 » Collected links
08 Apr 2018 » All the news that’s fit to parse
16 Mar 2018 » Holes, kinks and corners
08 Mar 2018 » Collected links
05 Mar 2018 » Term spreads and business cycles 3: The view from history
27 Feb 2018 » Models and surprise
15 Feb 2018 » Term spreads and business cycles 2: The role of monetary policy
09 Feb 2018 » Cosine similarity
05 Feb 2018 » Leonardo da Vinci
31 Jan 2018 » Term spreads and business cycles 1
15 Jan 2018 » Presentations at the AEA
31 Dec 2017 » Collected links
16 Dec 2017 » Growing and shrinking
16 Dec 2017 » Collected links
09 Dec 2017 » VoxEU gobbledygook
01 Dec 2017 » My 10 favorite books 2017
29 Nov 2017 » Collected links
19 Nov 2017 » Phillips curve in the United States
05 Nov 2017 » Collected links
30 Oct 2017 » Animation: Historical real stock returns in the United States, 1871-2016
27 Oct 2017 » Day To Day (For 6 Days A Week) - L.A. Salami
16 Oct 2017 » Collected links
26 Sep 2017 » “Hidden Skewness”
22 Sep 2017 » Our paper: “Benign Effects of Automation: New Evidence from Patent Texts”
18 Sep 2017 » Collected links
06 Sep 2017 » Abenomics
30 Aug 2017 » Collected links
23 Aug 2017 » Big data in macroeconomics
03 Aug 2017 » “At the Existentialist Café”, by Sarah Bakewell
18 Jul 2017 » Comments now enabled
17 Jul 2017 » Interesting papers at the NBER Summer Institute 2017
12 Jul 2017 » Collected links
06 Jul 2017 » Inflation: A good sign? — Gourio and Ngo (2016)
23 Jun 2017 » Collected links
20 Jun 2017 » Coibion, Gorodnichenko and Koustas (2017)
13 Jun 2017 » Global financial cycle
05 Jun 2017 » Tristan Garcia, “The Intense Life: A Modern Obsession”
27 May 2017 » Collected links
25 May 2017 » Maybe “economic policy uncertainty” is just firms disliking regulation
17 May 2017 » Schelling’s segregation model
12 May 2017 » New working paper
11 May 2017 » Heckman on Econtalk
30 Apr 2017 » German incomes in 2014
27 Apr 2017 » Collected links
17 Apr 2017 » Roy model
12 Apr 2017 » Collected links
08 Apr 2017 » Joseph Henrich on modern causal reasoning
03 Apr 2017 » Coding interviews
30 Mar 2017 » “2001: A Space Odyssey”, by Arthur C. Clarke
25 Mar 2017 » Collected links
20 Mar 2017 » “It’s a weird place man.”
18 Mar 2017 » Getting it all together
13 Mar 2017 » Matlab struct to R dataframe
08 Mar 2017 » Collected links
03 Mar 2017 » Code snippet of the day
28 Feb 2017 » “Rules for Radicals”, by Saul Alinsky
24 Feb 2017 » Bundeskunsthalle: “A Brief History of Humankind”
19 Feb 2017 » Collected links
09 Feb 2017 » Ramanujan’s nested radicals
02 Feb 2017 » SIR-model
28 Jan 2017 » “Coffee and Power”, by Jeffery Paige
23 Jan 2017 » “Messy”, by Tim Harford
17 Jan 2017 » Collected links
11 Jan 2017 » Collected links
08 Jan 2017 » Other works by George R. R. Martin
05 Jan 2017 » David Autor in Zurich on automation and much more
26 Dec 2016 » Collected links
23 Dec 2016 » Knigge
15 Dec 2016 » Collected links
11 Dec 2016 » “What is Populism”, by Jan-Werner Müller
08 Dec 2016 » Collected links
01 Dec 2016 » My 10 favorite books 2016
24 Nov 2016 » Collected links
19 Nov 2016 » “Killer Incentives: Awards, Status Competition, and Pilot Performance during World War II”
16 Nov 2016 » Collected links
20 Oct 2016 » Collected links
15 Oct 2016 » “Manias, Panics and Crashes”, by Charles Kindleberger
11 Oct 2016 » Bonn
08 Oct 2016 » An excellent course on machine learning
01 Oct 2016 » Updates
29 Sep 2016 » Collected links
21 Sep 2016 » “Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction”, by Samir Okasha
18 Sep 2016 » Why does inflation matter at all?
11 Sep 2016 » Collected links
08 Sep 2016 » Tech stocks in Berlin before 1913
03 Sep 2016 » Outsider books
02 Sep 2016 » Collected links
26 Aug 2016 » Golden Age - Chris Staples
23 Aug 2016 » Collected links
20 Aug 2016 » Modes of inquiry
11 Aug 2016 » A machine does your thinking: “Superintelligence”, by Nick Bostrom
03 Aug 2016 » Club members help each other out
01 Aug 2016 » Collected links
23 Jul 2016 » Collected links
19 Jul 2016 » Grande Peur
18 Jul 2016 » Interesting papers at the NBER Summer Institute 2016
17 Jul 2016 » Simple example of how to write unit tests in Matlab
16 Jul 2016 » Eugene Fama and Richard Thaler debate efficient markets
13 Jul 2016 » Collected links
12 Jul 2016 » Do the programming languages we use influence how we think?
10 Jul 2016 » Do as I did
07 Jul 2016 » Keeping records
03 Jul 2016 » Collected links
02 Jul 2016 » “What Is Code?”, by Paul Ford
02 Jul 2016 » The Economist on GDP measurement and progress
29 Jun 2016 » Not what I would have guessed
27 Jun 2016 » When testing isn’t enough
25 Jun 2016 » Only one inflation rate for the rich and the poor?
18 Jun 2016 » Collected links
15 Jun 2016 » Diagnostic expectations
13 Jun 2016 » Career advice from “Doing Good Better”, by William MacAskill
12 Jun 2016 » “What is necessary”
11 Jun 2016 » Paul Theroux, development and the globalization backlash
10 Jun 2016 » Central banks and financial bubbles
03 Jun 2016 » Collected links
02 Jun 2016 » Effective Altruism: “Doing Good Better”, by William MacAskill
26 May 2016 » “Status Cocaine”
22 May 2016 » “Zero to One”, by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
22 May 2016 » “The Opposite of Loneliness”, by Marina Keegan
21 May 2016 » Improved book titles
17 May 2016 » Collected links
15 May 2016 » “Appropriate amount”
08 May 2016 » “Why do we work so hard?”, by Ryan Avent
05 May 2016 » Denomination capping as coordination game - and implementation troubles
28 Apr 2016 » “John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed, 1883–1920”, by Robert Skidelski
27 Apr 2016 » Interview with David Card and Alan Krueger
24 Apr 2016 » “Mankind’s single greatest waste of time and energy”
23 Apr 2016 » Reasonable Latex templates
23 Apr 2016 » Reading the original Lonely Planet “Across Asia on the Cheap” (1975)
22 Apr 2016 » “Superforecasters”, by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner