GOATed Joel Mokyr passage now Nobel approved.

Is Gaby Aghion the coolest mother of a Nobel laureate?

Thanks Romesh! Only one week early. I hope you enjoy your copy.

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

Am visiting Chicago Booth and we were literally talking about you last night at dinner! Congratulation to everyone on a great match

Meloni is *not* happy

Do incumbents buy startups to scale innovation or to stifle it? New research covering 60 countries finds that acquired startups were highly innovative before their acquisition, but their patenting drops sharply afterward, while acquirers' innovation doesn't rise.

What it's all about. 💜🥹 Prof. Joel Mokyr, winner of the The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, shares a lovely message from a former student.

"Some concerns" !! She knew they would be suspicious bc of skin-name mismatch; so she helped them (and herself) from being Kavanaugh'd by carrying her passport....and they *still* called her a liar. W no passport she would have been manhandled and detained for hours or days

From The Fear Index to "AI Behavioral Science by Matthew Jackson and colleagues": Understanding it in a New Age Note: The other post discussing machines and their social relationships appears below. When The Fear Index by Robert Harris was published, the consequences of the

I work with young republican staffers constantly and can confirm. This is depressing and tiring and correct.

Apocalypse Now

Hanania’s Based Ritual essay aged extremely well in a short period of time. Everyone involved with the young right already knew this was happening. Hanania was first to articulate it in depth from a place of familiarity.

Agree! Felons belong in the White House

The wildest part of Pixar’s early run was that a single lunch meeting lead to 6 films and $4B at box office. Might be the greatest business lunch ever and was memorialized in the teaser film trailer for Wall-E (2008). Andrew Stanton tells the story: ➡️“In the summer of 1994

As a fan of Edward Hopper I couldn’t help but take this photo in Greenwich tonight.

MAGA pushing a new frontier-- bold lies about rare types of signs at protests, which are easy to debunk. Most pictures and videos make it obvious this is false. Pure myth that organized antifa, Soros are behind protests.

A planned economy. didnt quite work for Mao

Someone please train AI to infer Trump’s economic preferences from language. Hypothesis: temporary home (tile, ballroom, gaudy Oval) > who he likes and who likes him > who was mean to him (Weekly Special) > bragging > wind kills birds = showers & toilets >…..> angering Putin

PS: EMTALA law (requiring ER card for everyone) was passed in the Reagan administration in 1986