this is like being mad that a solar eclipse is ruining your sunrise watching plans

like the WHAT??

guy at the Tortured Poets Department who keeps on calling it the Ministry of Poet Torture even though the reorganisation was nine years ago during the Coalition.

I almost cant believe someone could possibly miss the point of 4'33' so bad except at the last minute of consideration i realise yes I can believe it

A doppio seems like relatively little coffee but it can cover a surprisingly large fraction of your desk

i often talk irl about how i wish my mum would have had the courage to stick to her guns about not having children. people will often recoil at my saying this because “that would mean you wouldn’t be born” as if that’s some sort of gotcha

This is Rick Rubin, midwife of the Beastie Boys, being based

are you sure we're good bro? we can talk if you want. i told you i'm sorry. no cmon. don't reprise your main theme in a minor key.

All the (labor) economists scrambling to write papers about the ban on non-competes: #econtwitter #FTC
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Dovetails with something I was just about to post, actually. Someone who had read my LA Times op ed last week (apparently reprinted today in the San Diego Union Tribune) sent me something he'd received as a prospective law student back in 1961. A prominent law school had said

This is fascinating. I would have thought he'd put down the 'mongrel' nature of English (German + French) as 'inelegant.' But no, to him it's a feature, not a bug. And he likes the prepositions! Good for him--I've always liked to mull break up, break down, break in, break out and

are you okay bro? why is there a slow-tempo reprise of your main theme? bro?

I had a critic in my comments yesterday comparing my last essay to Jack Kerouac’s On The Road lol

“Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs also wrote this way and achieved that sort of incoherence” - a review of Visa’s Voltaic Verses

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Whoa, this is an outstanding choice.

Congratulations Paul Niehaus Johannes Haushofer Edward Miguel on winning the Frisch medal!

ECMA is happy to announce the 2024 Frisch Medal has been awarded to Dennis Egger, Johannes Haushofer, Edward Miguel, Paul Niehaus, & Michael Walker for their outstanding paper: General equilibrium effects of cash transfers: experimental evidence from Kenya econometricsociety.org/prizes/frisch-…

All intelligence is artificial if you think about it because only stupidity comes naturally. Take this post for example

actually many senior biz school profs cannot do the “look at your keyboard” meme because a rogue RA is using it to input data right now . please be respectful