I’ve been on the optimistic side of the aisle when it comes to AI. It’s hard to look at the potential business uses of AI and not see an explosion of productivity and firm profits. A few of the benefits I see are
It is reasonable to call me anti-social media. I believe that time spent interacting with random people on the internet, in an environment that uses metrics to tell you how well you’re playing the game, should be zero or close to it.
Finding real internet content in 2026 is extremely hard. It’s shocking that it’s this much harder to find real content than it was 25 years ago. This is a leading counterexample if anyone says technology doesn’t regress.
I came across a site called Tildes. Somehow I have never heard of Tildes before. Looks cool, even if there is no way to register an account (a search indicated that it’s invite-only). Hacker News has recently become LLM News, and with the flood of...
One of the side effects of the move to social media has been the loss of depth in online communication. I’m using the term “social media” as a reference to any form of online media where other users of the site can are able to interact with and of...
I’ve got a bunch of partially finished posts sitting around. I’m going to finish them by writing the rest of them or deleting them. There might be a flood of new posts here in a short period of time. Or there might be nothing. Depends on how many ...
It’s been a long time since I posted here. Seven months!
I’ve heard people make statements like this: “I’m 50 and I haven’t saved anything for retirement. I wanted to send my kids through college and pay off all my debt first. I’m starting to put money in the stock market. I’m not worried because my hou...
I do almost all my programming on Linux. The desire for a better programming environment was one of the reasons I started moving to Linux more than 20 years ago. The reality is that Linux is not sufficient if you’re working with other economists. ...
On starting a new Matlab installation on Ubuntu, I got the message