People who feel the need to proclaim themselves "system thinkers" rarely are. #TuesdayThoughts

People who feel the need to proclaim "just saying" rarely are. #ThursdayThoughts

Unfortunately, it feels more like the norm these days. Cherry-picking made an end-around to masquerade as reasoned discourse while people were shaking their heads at outright lies. Now we are left with only a small minority of experts able/willing to tell the difference.

This is one of the better ones from Smokin' Jay! No shade on Kap, this is just too funny.

Come see our Institute's sweet new digs at the corner of Polo and Reynolda!

We spent most of the morning stocking our new library!

InitiativeQ is a new currency built by ex-PayPal guys, currently given for free. If Initiative Q becomes a leading payment network, economists estimate the reward would be around $50,000. Just need name and email and your spot is reserved. By invite only:initiativeq.com/invite/SSXswBr…

When I was taking a differential equations course with physicists and engineers I often heard people say “economics isn’t rocket science you know.” My standard reply was, “no it is actually much more interesting and more difficult” because of of this:

What a great group!

“One might say that Eudaimonia through Noesis is the greatest human goal.” Steven Pinker @WFEudaimonia Wake Forest News #noesislecture

Slightly different than what Edgeworth meant by hedonimeter...this site analyzes the happiness of the Twitterverse and displays it in a wonderfully interactive interface. hedonometer.org/index.html

Any labor econs who want to use the US Census Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) should use the R package "tidyqwi" to pull data from their API. cran.r-project.org/web/packages/t… If you find a bug or a way to break it, I'll buy you a beer! #econtwitter Mona Ahmadiani Michael DeWitt @WFEudaimonia

Here's a map of the Good life integrating Adam Smith's ideas from both the WoN and TMS, Aristotle, the Stoics, and modern Psychometrics that I discussed at #FEEcon2019 on an entrepreneurship panel. @WFEudaimonia #econtwitter #FlagDay

Twitter people: "You should watch Chernobyl on HBO, it's great" Also Twitter people: "Switching to a non-capitalist system would massively improve our stewardship of the environment"

"Most people are good. But bad ones gravitate to positions of power." --Miles Kimball

Congrats, James Otteson!

Very nice to spend time with some old friends this evening.

Jazz legend Chick Corea will perform at Wait Chapel Wake Forest University on Oct 24 at 7:30 p.m. A show with Corea alone would be special, but add in bass player Christian McBridge and drummer Brian Blade, and the show enters the realm of “can’t miss.” wakeforest.news/2MmsOC5 Winston-Salem Journal

Just posted a video @ Koka Booth Amphitheatre instagram.com/p/B3ustqUBkkv/…