academia is weird because when you start a job there's not any onboarding you just show up on campus and they're like "here's your office." and then when you leave a job, there's not any offboarding. you just stop showing up and they're like "you no longer have an office."

columbia era unlocked

for those following the soham parekh stuff, a short syllabus that might be of interest: - hart and moore, JPE 1990 - holmström and milgrom, JLEO 1991 - bernheim and whinston, Econometrica 1996

zohran needs to return the max speed of the citibike e-bikes to 18 mph

Slides from my discussion of (great) paper "Conversations at scale" docs.google.com/presentation/d… Interestingly, we're already seeing startups implement these kinds of ideas in market research e.g., Listen Labs & Voicepanel with seemingly great success

first ozzy, now hogan…for a certain type of guy (i knew many such guys in high school), this is a brutal week.

If you’re at Academy of Management #aom2025, come check out our panel on NLP in organizations, featuring David Holtz, Sameer Srivastava, William J. Brady, Mike Yeomans & me! Our symposium presents four perspectives of exploring organizational behavior through language💬 7/29 @ B4-m10, 1:45pm!

A nice write-up describing our work on the importance of prompting as generative models improve

Only half of performance gains seen after using a more advanced AI model come from the model itself. The other half come from how users adapted their prompts. David Holtz Eaman Jahani MIT IDE bit.ly/44ZuaeC

why does it feel like every australian survivor player is constantly cutting a wrestling promo

Fake Academia Problem: All professors are doing woke indoctrination! Real Academia Problem: Universities are overly risk averse leading to massive inefficiencies like intense IRB scrutiny for low-risk observational retrospective research and crazy data security rules

If you switch from spotify to Apple Music you will be stunned by how much your music no longer sounds like it comes from the bottom of an aluminum can

📢 Call for abstracts for the Conference on Digital Experimentation (CODE@MIT) 📨Submit your best work by *Sept 12th*! ide.mit.edu/events/2025-co… Here are three topics we're particularly interested in getting more submissions on this year:

“The best prompters weren’t software engineers. They were people who knew how to express ideas clearly in everyday language, not necessarily in code.” — David Holtz, MIT IDE bit.ly/44ZuaeC

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These results suggest that getting a PhD causally worsens mental health, or at least receiving psychiatric medicines. The reversal post PhD degree is particularly convincing. But the up trend among the control group is intriguing. The highly educated are in distress.

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