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Sunday, August 5, 2018

One Cheer for Buy Local?

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I’ll start by saying the “buy local” movement is deeply misguided in many ways. The belief that locally grown food is more environmentally f...

Some Thoughts on Teaching At Work vs. College

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Cross-posting from my Facebook page. I’ve been trying to learn some data science concepts and teach them to my team at work. A few thought...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Economists Have Done a Great Job Making the Case Against Tariffs

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Famously, economists have very different opinions from the lay public about economic policy. They are largely pro-free trade. Until fairly r...
Sunday, July 22, 2018

Does Scott Alexander Read My Blog?

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I had written these two posts a few weeks ago. Then Scott Alexander wrote a post last week with a nearly identical theme. Scott's pos...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Drug Poisonings and Chronic Health Conditions

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In an earlier post , I wrote that about 20-25% of drug poisoning deaths involved some kind of chronic health condition. See what I wrote. ...

Shoulder Flexibility

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I’ve been taking private gymnastics lessons, one or two a months since last November. I’d always wanted to do those cool gymnastics tricks...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Personal Debt of CEOs as Pre-commitment

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I’m interested in the topic of very high executive pay, which I’ve written about several times on this blog. The short version of my take:...
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