Comfort with Contradiction
April 2, 2024 • #Fostering a comfort with complex trade-offs.
Topic / economics
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Will Milei Succeed in Argentina?
January 24, 2024 • #Tyler Cowen's prospects for Milei.
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January 24, 2024 • #
Tyler Cowen is hopeful (as am I), but skeptical:
For a country to swing so wildly from state-run strangulation to an quasi-populist libertarian economist makes me worried his effect on Argentine bureaucracy will fade in the next 12 months.
But his Davos talk was phenomenal. Should be shown in high school classrooms.
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Devon Zuegel on Inflation, Argentina, and Crypto
October 19, 2022 • #A fascinating look into the effects of decades-long inflation problems in Argentina.
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Regionalizing Renewable Energy
September 8, 2022 • #Can Europe turn an energy crisis into a positive renewable energy future?
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Economies of Scale in Construction
August 24, 2022 • #Brian Potter starts a series to analyze the seeming lack of economies of scale in construction.
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Weekend Reading: Koestler on Awareness, 21st Century Alchemy, and the Gini Coefficient
July 30, 2021 • #Arthur Koestler on the public's inability to notice the horrors of the Holocaust, Alex Crompton on generating companies, and Vitalik on the Gini Coefficient's misapplication in crypto.
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Weekend Reading: American Growth, JTBD, and Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
October 17, 2020 • #Roots of Progress on The Rise and Fall of American Growth, a guide to JTBD interviews, and nullifying the Fermi paradox.
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Second and Third-Order Effects
October 6, 2020 • #The cascading impacts of invention: the shipping container.
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2020 Bundles
October 2, 2020 • #Ben Thompson's updated state of bundling across the big tech players.
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Weekend Reading: Guide to SaaS, a Few Rules, and Starting a Company Now
September 26, 2020 • #Stripe's guide to SaaS, a few rules from Morgan Housel, and the advantages of starting a company in a crisis.
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Economics of the Tour de France
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On Legibility
July 31, 2020 • #Riffs on James Scott's 'Seeing Like a State' and Venkatesh Rao's commentary on the book.
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Science, Innovation, and Longevity
July 28, 2020 • #Venture Stories interview with Jose Luis Ricon.
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Weekend Reading: Quarantine Talks
July 11, 2020 • #A few recent talks I've bookmarked on YouTube.
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Advantage Flywheels
June 14, 2020 • #Examples of different business model flywheels.
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The Torch of Progress with Tyler Cowen
June 11, 2020 • #Video interview with Tyler Cowen on human progress.
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Weekend Reading: Post-Truth, Knowledge, and Game Graphics
May 30, 2020 • #Gurri on post-truth, Hayek's Pretence of Knowledge, and GTA V graphics.
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Martin Gurri on EconTalk
May 27, 2020 • #Martin Gurri talks with Russ Roberts about his book.
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Weekend Reading: Optionality, Pangaea, and Regulatory Disappointment
May 16, 2020 • #The trouble with optionality, modern day Pangaea, and when regulation goes wrong.
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Did We Lock Down Some Places Too Early?
May 14, 2020 • #Tyler Cowen wonders about possible failing in how we rolled out lockdowns.
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Weekend Reading: Tagging with Turf, Mars Panorama, and Kinds of Easy
March 7, 2020 • #Tagging data with Turf, Curiosity high-res photo, and different kinds of easy.
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Back to the Future
February 20, 2020 • #Peter Thiel reviews Ross Douthat's new book.
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How Elite Institutions Lost Their Legitimacy
February 16, 2020 • #A discussion between economist Arnold Kling and author Martin Gurri.
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Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complements
February 10, 2020 • #Gwern's analysis of Spolsky's 'commoditizing your complements' essay.
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Adam Smith, Loneliness, and the Limits of Mainstream Economics
January 28, 2020 • #Russ Roberts on lonileness and accounting for the unmeasurable.
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41 Inconvenient Truths
January 20, 2020 • #41 facts and observations about energy economics.
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Hong Kong Is Fast Becoming an Also Ran
January 6, 2020 • #On Hong Kong's recent economic stagnation.
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Extreme Aging
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Weekend Reading: Tradeoffs, the Margins, and PR FAQs
December 21, 2019 • #Ubiquity of tradeoffs, outsiders vs. insiders, and FAQs as a tool for goal setting.
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Accidental Harm
December 19, 2019 • #Ways to accidentally cause negative impact, and methods for mitigating.
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Rory Sutherland on Alchemy
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What Gets Expensive, and Why?
September 24, 2019 • #Economist Arnold Kling on why certain areas of the economy increase in cost while others drop.
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Weekend Reading: Iceland, the Use of Knowledge, and CLI Search
September 14, 2019 • #Hayek on society's use of knowledge, a fuzzy finder for the command line, and beautiful footage of Iceland's geography.
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Ray Dalio on Career, Market Cycles, China Debt
November 20, 2018 • #Ray Dalio interview on Bloomberg's Masters in Business show.
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Weekend Reading: Wind Turbines, Bruce Sterling, and Economic Ideas
November 17, 2018 • #The US Wind Turbine Database, an interview with Bruce Sterling, and EconTalk's Russ Roberts on economic history.
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Economics & Product Management
October 10, 2018 • #The similarities between economics and product management. It's all about trade-offs.
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How the Economic Machine Works
October 6, 2018 • #A concise explanation of an economy.
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Weekly Links: Tensor Processing, Amazon, and Preventing Traffic Jams
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