Something I dislike about being a full professor is the amount of administrative work you have to do - and that you agree to do, even if you don’t have to, simply because you want to do your share. A professor will not normally have any training t...
I recently taught this paper in my macroeconometrics class. The criticisms of the HP filter are valid, but they’ve been known for a long time - as Hamilton explicitly states in his paper. I really admire the elegance of detrended real GDP by estim...
I’m a big believer in the importance of taking notes. It’s been a critical part of my career.
Inspired by all the crap we have to go through with email as laid out in this post that hit the front page of Hacker News, I’m once again asking “Why do we still rely so heavily on email?”
Sometimes it feels like paper is a legacy tool. I confess that I use paper all the time. When I want to dump something out of my brain, nothing is faster than grabbing a notebook and writing it all down. No figuring out which app, where something ...
I’m constantly on the search for simple blogging options that
This is a topic that has been discussed to death. That’s okay. Maybe I can add something useful by suggesting one way forward. Back when the internet existed, we had large quantities of information, with a good signal to noise ratio, and it was p...
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