How leaders allocate their limited time and attention is an important question in economics. This paper constructs and analyzes a novel data set covering the daily calendars of three Federal Reserve Chairs, Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen, and Jerome Powell, containing more than 20,000 calendar entries....
Sometimes it's just time to go up the wooden hill... during Weird Web October! Let's roll some shapes...
We’re in the midst of an attention crisis. All is disruption and distraction. John Berger saw it coming – and foresaw it…
"To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and…
Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents
Monetary Policy Trilemma, New Controls on Tunnel Boring Machines, and is China's Open-weight AI Strategy Changing Face?
The book, Exponential Wealth: Centuries of Stock and Bond Returns, provides context on the concentration issue in US sto…
How geography shaped the country we know today
And why now is a good time to give
My review of “You Can See Everything”
The most significant moment in math history just happened...
Seems like it’s a good time for an open thread. I cannot remember what number we’re up to, so it’s “Potato”. I just had french fries for lunch and ate the longest french fry I have ever seen.1 I should have taken a photo, but I was in consumption mode and not attention mode. My apologies for the ove...
Read slowly. There is no hurry.