The daily note is popular these days. Roam, Logseq, Obsidian, and probably a load of others offer a daily note feature. After learning about the concept, I decided to give it a try. I wanted to see if it was really as magical as they said. After ...
Reading Brad DeLong’s Slouching Towards Utopia, I was surprised to see that he explains events using the fiscal theory of the price level (FTPL). The FTPL is not my area of expertise. I’ve known about it for 25 years or so, as one of my grad schoo...
I wish I was writing more. Unfortunately, as “they” say, sometimes life gets in the way. There was the extended COVID sickness. Then not that long after I had that behind me, but before I had any chance to catch up, I got a different virus. That ...
It’s okay to be mediocre if you’re consistent. What I mean by that is that you generally can’t judge the quality of your work by looking at a single day.
Life is finally returning to normal after my battle with Covid. Not anything too serious, just sickness that lasted for more than five weeks. That was the longest it has ever taken me to recover from an illness by a long shot. My productivity was ...
Repeat after me: Covid is not the flu. For some of us, at least, it’s hard to get rid of Covid.
An article about teaching intro econ courses was posted on Hacker News. Rather than put a comment there - where the other commenters typically have no familiarity with and strong opinions on these topics - I felt it would be better to post my comm...
One of the obvious disadvantages of getting sick (Covid in my case) is that your work piles up. That’s not the case for, say, a delivery driver, where they’d find a substitute driver rather than let all the packages build up. Nothing goes away whe...
After 2.5 years, I finally tested positive for Covid. I have a few thoughts:
In my post yesterday I went into some of the issues associated with the scale of information I have to manage.