Out your left and right side window: The curvature of the earth. Cruising altitude: 60,000 ft. #BoomSupersonic

The price of burqas in Kabul has increased as much as tenfold due to the Taliban takeover.

Pressuring the referees helps your team: The home field advantage is due to the influence of the crowd on referees. When COVID forced soccer matches in closed arenas, it didn't change performance but it eliminated "one-third of a yellow card for away teams relative to home team."

Insane picture of astronaut Bruce McCandless II, the first person to conduct an untethered free flight in space.

GoPro view during a spacewalk:

Hot take otd: ACs are overrated, Europeans actually got it right

We are looking at every tool we have to make our economy more productive.

In 2011, a fan asked Frank Ocean on Tumblr to explain his current situation to himself from 5 years ago

. Roman Ugarte& I are writing a bi-weekly column on technology, geo-politics, and economics for The Harvard Crimson —check out our first piece on decision making! thecrimson.com/article/2023/2…

Our latest piece is out: "On Gutenberg and GPT." In the process of researching it, I spent a good chunk of time reading about the history of the printing press. It's fascinating. Here are a few fun insights that didn't make it into the article: thecrimson.com/article/2023/2…

This bridge from Cambridge to Boston is one of three places in the world where you can have a plane flying over a car driving over a train rolling over a boat

13 years ago today I took a picture of a car with no license plate in a Cupertino office parking lot

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Do high interest rates get people down? dlvr.it/T3JNKz

A big puzzle in economics right now: Why is consumer sentiment so low? We found that rates are even more important than we think. See our paper for more:

Thank you Lawrence H. Summers!

Besides enabling rapid growth, we want Stripe to be powerful and complete enough that headcount scaling is extremely efficient. Cursor is a good example. Now at $300M, with a grand total of two people working on finance + payments.