Collected links

1. FiveThirtyEight: “People are making Super Mario go faster than ever ”. I wonder what these players would say about MarI/O.

2. Simon Kuper in the FT (if paywalled, google for it) on robots and journalism:

   Don’t make your job your identity.

3. Some behavioral finance economist should exploit this to study the effect of fake news on the stock market:

   An old introductory statement was mistakenly published on our website today. Current version correct. https://t.co/s6Cagx4ELx

   — ECB (@ecb) October 20, 2016

4. The first three points in this post by Olivier Blanchard are an interesting summary of what almost all macroeconomists can agree on. (Through Rüdiger Bachmann)

5. Bundesbank (in German):

   Verteilungseffekte ein Erkenntnisziel der Geldpolitik, aber kein geldpolitisches Ziel.

6. Vice: “When tourism turns into narcissism”

   I’m a travel writer, which is shorthand for saying that I’m a work-shy dilettante with an overinflated respect for the value of my own experience.

7. MIT alumni are going to tech

8. Literary Hub: “There’s still no word for ‘memoir’ in German publishing” (through Dan Wang)