Blog AF

Took a break for thanksgiving. Read a lot. Choosing was hard. This week’s winner seems to be Noah Smith.

• The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps
  Tiago Forte - Medium
  
• Ben Bernanke on bubbles, bitcoin, and why he’s not a Republican anymore
  Matt Phillips - Quartz
  
• Challenging the Oligarchy
  Paul Krugman - New York Review of Books
  
• The Trouble With Interest Rates
  J. Bradford DeLong - Project Syndicate
  
• The Utopian UI Architect
  John Pavlus - reForm
  
• The McDonalds Monopoly Fraud
  Pricenomics
  
• The New Atomic Age We Need
  Peter Thiel - New York Times
  
• Why Primo Levi Survives
  William Deresiewicz - The Atlantic
  
• The Direct Connection
  Fred Wilson - AVC
  
• The future’s at stake: the left must show it could create an iPad
  Zoe Williams - The Guardian
  
• The day I became a millionaire
  David Heinemeier Hansson - Medium
  
• TV, mobile and the living room
  Benedict Evans
  
• Revenge of the Nerds
  Paul Graham
  
• What Is Holding Back the Economy?
  Mark Thoma - Economist's View
  
• Want Innovation? Try Raising Minimum Wages
  Noah Smith - Bloomberg View
  
• The Cost of Redistributing Wealth
  Noah Smith - Bloomberg View
  
• Unlearning economics
  Noah Smith - Noahpinion
  
• Most of What You Learned in Econ 101 Is Wrong
  Noah Smith - Bloomberg View
  
• Econ 101 and data (reply to David Henderson)
  Noah Smith - Noahpinion
  
• The Yale Problem Begins in High School
  Jonathan Haidt - Heterodox Academy
  
• A Tale of Two Onboardings
  Convox
  
• A Bulge, Not a Bubble
  Albert Wenger - Continuations
  
• Solving Einstein’s Riddle with Ruby
  Sean Handley - Medium
  
• The Hoverboard Life
  Planet Money (podcast)
  
• The Pickle Problem
  Planet Money (podcast)
  
• The Great Inflation
  Planet Money (podcast)
  
• Birthstory
  Radiolab
  

• Living in different worlds
  Benedict Evans
  
• Police Civil Asset Forfeitures Exceed All Burglaries in 2014
  Martin Armstrong
  
• Getting the deal done
  Fred Wilson - AVC
  
• I Turned Off JavaScript for a Whole Week and It Was Glorious
  Klint Finley - Wired
  
• Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynical Pattern
  Cindy Cohn - Electronic Frontier Foundation
  
• The Night in Question
  This American Life (podcast)
  
• Why Coke Cost A Nickel For 70 Years
  Planet Money (podcast)
  

• The Exploitation of Paris
  Frank Bruni - New York Times
  
• Terrorists and Aliens
  Paul Krugman - New York Times
  
• Patronizing Passwords
  Joel Califa
  
• Electing to Ignore the Poorest of the Poor
  Eduardo Porter - New York Times
  
• We need less powerful languages
  Luke Plant
  
• Asking the question is the most important step
  Andrew Gelman
  
• The Bottom-Line Single Main Difference Between Python 2 and 3
  Aaron Maxwell
  

• Paris: You Don’t Want to Read This
  Peter Van Buren - Ron Paul Institute For Peace and Prosperity
  
• What Americans thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of World War II
  Ishaan Tharoor - Washington Post
  
• ‘Chicagonomics’ and ‘Economics Rules’
  David Leonhardt - New York Times
  
• The Blurring Of The Public And Private Markets
  Fred Wilson - AVC
  
• Why Sand is Disappearing
  John R. Gillis - New York Times
  
• How Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name
  Don Norman and Bruce Tognazzini - Fast Company
  
• A world of debt
  The Economist - Money Talks (podcast)
  

• Uber: What are the Real Economic Gains?
  Tim Taylor - Conversable Economist
  
• Why Republicans Still Love the Gold Standard
  Eric Rauchway - New York Times
  
• What Can You Put in a Refrigerator?
  James Hague - Programming in the twenty-first century
  
• America is exceptional... and ordinary
  Lane Kenworthy
  
• Yasiv.com
  Andrei Kashcha
  
• Money Trees
  Planet Money (podcast)