My god this is such a good speech that every SWE needs to hear. You know what? Every person should hear it Keep the happy memories, eyes on the reality, be excited about the future. That’s the best that anyone can do

Nobel prize winning economists have no authority relative to anyone else on what the distribution of income or wealth should be.

New UC data shows introductory math grades falling, while rates of failure, no-pass and withdrawal nearly double, ahead of the regents’ expected vote next year on restoring the SAT. sfchronicle.com/california/a…

This is how the CUNY system - which had once been a crown jewel of public higher education in its heyday - was eventually destroyed for a generation.

The key quote from an op-ed that advocates against bringing back standardized testing in UC admissions: "Students on University of California campuses may struggle with basic math, but they are graduating at record rates." nytimes.com/2026/09/16/opini…

🚨 🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨🚨 Excited to post a new paper on introducing mech. interp methods to power social simulations with AI agents! paper: arxiv.org/abs/2609.16436

Search on Mac Finder is no longer functional. I write the exact file name and it gives no results.

You looking for a roadmap to how to become a millionaire, or perhaps you are concerned that inequality is outrageously high? Either way, this book is a must read.

The UC system is being flooded with students with 4.0 GPAs. It is now over 100,000 a year (left). Yet California 11th graders proficiency levels haven't budged (right).

Late-September 2001, someone mailed Anthrax to the networks from the mailbox across the street from my office in the Princeton IR Section. For the next year my mail arrived irradiated in plastic baggies. These were the conditions under which I wrote my job market paper.

I sat on those steps with a friend who worked at the Deutsche Bank building. The plaza was full of WTC workers on lunch breaks. Four days later I saw the plane hit on live TV. There's a trauma that I never really processed. Princeton classes weren't cancelled and I was TAing an econometrics section two days later. The world changed but we kept working. On days like this I feel the grief that I largely suppressed.

Remembering Brent Woodall, Class of 1993, a tight end on Cal's Citrus Bowl team, pitcher in the 1992 College World Series & graduate of Haas Business School, who died at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Brent's wife Tracy give birth to their daughter in April 2002.

Remembering Mark Bingham, Class of 1993, one of the heroes who brought down United Airlines Flight 93 in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001, saving hundreds or thousands of lives. Mark Bingham was a proud gay man and a National Champion with @CalVarsityRugby. He was 31 years old.

Welles Crowther, a former Boston College lacrosse player who had a trademark red bandana, was working in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. This is the story of how he led people to safety after terrorists struck the World Trade Center.

I’ll bet $5 million at 1-to-100 odds that humanity survives the next ten years.

In the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes, 24% of active unemployed searchers say they are considering only WFH jobs. Could preferences for WFH + fewer opportunities be the reason that unemployment duration has been rising since 2023?

Two perspectives on manufacturing in the US that show a different trend post-2022: payroll employment (left) and real value added (right). With productivity growth, we should not expect manufacturing employment to track overall productive activity.

New use case for AI. Calculate precisely how many gallons of gas I need to hit to required level on a rental return. Requires a photo of fuel gauge + make and model of vehicle.