#Incentives

Greg Pak

gregpak

Two big things:1. I remind myself that if I don’t get my scripts in, it throws off production and can hurt the income of the line artists, colorists, and letterers.2.

Dan Rutherford

rutherdan

.@EU_Commission is holding a public consultation on policies the EU could use to jumpstart alternative jet fuel use by airlines. It’s generating some interesting responses; this one, from @AirlinesDotOrg, is

Philip Loring

ConserveChange

Today my coauthors and I pulled an in-press article. I want to explain why. The article analyzed a historical dataset of Indigenous hunting and fishing in Alaska to explore the

Svetski

AleksSvetski

Moving into Bitcoin is not just an economic imperative, but a moral duty.This is my first piece in a while, but one that I feel everyone should read to remind

Corey Quinn

QuinnyPig

Why We Can't Have Nice ThingsA partial list, by Corey Quinn. Nobody's a villain in their own story, but they don't extend that courtesy to others. People who got where

Abhi 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 | akantamn@uoguelph.ca

akantamn

Millions of families put their lives and livelihoods on hold to buy time for those in a position of authority, yet months later are we any closer to solving

Rohit Jindal 📚

rohit_jindal29

A THREAD on short notes on mental models which I find most insightfulHope you find it useful1/ The Map is not the Territory: Maps are imperfect reductions of the actual

Non-Prophet Investor

npidoney

/1 Assume machine learning and algorithms taking over the finance industry with complete robotic rationality, following problems would still exist:- Customers have emotions, demand explanations and follow narratives. If the

Nick HK

nickchk

The econ job market is starting again. Just a minor advice thread, specifically aimed at people in the academic market who are not superstar candidates. IMO too much of the

Doctor Historianess

historianess

Minneapolis has a long history of police brutality. Starting in the 1950s, a lot of police violence was directed at Native people living in the Twin Cities. 1/ The Federal

Philip Summerton

summerton_econ

Great that climate change is becoming such an important issuebut I’ve been in this area long enough to remember when political leaders didn’t listen to thought leaders like @TerryBarker21 @MichaelGrubb9

brantly.eth

BrantlyMillegan

The Ethereum community has accidentally solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On"Sign-In w/ Ethereum" is the future of login for *every app on the Internet*, crypto-related or notNot

Jacob F Kirkegaard

jfkirkegaard

Europe has done pretty well so far in this pandemic, but as the 2nd wave rises, possibly serious policy mistakes mount. Like the apparent refusal of southern governments to take

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

Some think patents stand in way of making more vaccines. They don’t. Skill & money do. Just as most of us couldn’t replicate Mona Lisa (no IP there), few can

Malcolm 🙃cean

Malcolm_Ocean

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a Systemby Donella MeadowsMade into a thread for QTing, by me! Some Systems Theory terminology:the state of the system is some key stock,

Laura Bronner

laurabronner

This analysis is really frustrating, and not something I would signed off on at @FiveThirtyEight. Let me try and go through some of the reasons why.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/us/politics/wisconsin-mail-voting.html 1. The framing: one