@UMich alum in Atlanta. BS, computer science, working in IT. Interested in politics, economics, philosophy, data, sports, and culture.
Atlanta, GA
Joined June 2011
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Me in 2074 having a bonding moment with my grannddaughter showing her my vinyl copy of Mista Thug Isolation by Lil Ugly Mane
@besttrousers I always thought that data showing real wage losses were an artifact of compositional effects, but they added the Atlanta Fed wage growth tracker to FRED, and unfortunately now I see that it tells basically the same story 😢
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Anyway, here's the first word of each of my broadcasts since July 31 of last year.
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Almost 29 years to the day before Theodore Kaczynski died in a Federal prison cell in North Carolina, I was a newly-minted PhD working as an antitrust consultant in Princeton when I received a strange package. 🧵1/10
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Been working on this one for a while!
My deep dive on Long Covid, functional disorders, psychosocial distress, and symptoms that medicine has never cracked, for @newrepublic:
newrepublic.com/article/1689…
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Hey guys, last night in Twitter DMs I asked Sam Bankman-Fried when Alameda first borrowed FTX customer funds, what he really thinks of the SEC, and a lot more. vox.com/future-perfect/23462…
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🚨I wrote about the forces that lock us in a state of perpetual pandemic failure. More new diseases will arise, and our choices leave us as vulnerable to them as we were to this one. This isn’t destiny; it’s the result of bad decisions, which we can undo.
theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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The US has 42 MW of offshore wind production that is operational, 932 MW under construction, and 18,581(!) MW tied up in permitting.
energy.gov/sites/default/fil…
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A tiny oil and gas facility in Texas spewed methane into the atmosphere with the same earth-warming power as burning seven tanker trucks of gasoline every day. It was one of 533 so-called “super emitters” found in the biggest U.S. oil field. apne.ws/YLk5gDs
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.@MarkLeibovich tells the definitive story of Trump’s lapdogs: Kevin McCarthy, Lindsey Graham, and all the parasitic suck-ups who humored him down to the last, exhausted strains of American democracy: on.theatln.tc/G4Nmo5J
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"Wishful thinking happens across the political spectrum. More and more, we are a nation in denial," @MittRomney writes: on.theatln.tc/v6sR8H3
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I wrote about Dianne Feinstein, the aesthetics of institutionalism, the fetishization of order, and how taking the side of the system is neither moderate nor neutral. It is also about her age: thecut.com/article/dianne-fe…
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The excellent @crampell is absolutely right: the "gouging" theory of inflation is terrible economics, and worse politics. 1/2 washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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I met a lot of duplicitous people in Congress but none more conniving and fundamentally dishonest than Kevin McCarthy. He will say or do whatever he thinks is necessary at a particular moment to obtain or maintain power.
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I wrote an essay for the Atlantic about why I continue to believe we made the right decision expanding NATO. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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Why not let the fans get in on the action too?
Tonight the Bananas (and the stands) made history by a fan catching a foul ball for an out!
Banana Ball Rule #9: If a fan catches a foul ball, it's an out.
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'What is economic growth?' seems like a simple question, but there is a lot of confusion around it – most commonly because people confuse measures of economic growth with a definition of it.
I wrote this essay about it if you are interested in this:
ourworldindata.org/what-is-e…
