Blog AF

• Fed Up with the Fed
  Joseph E. Stiglitz
  
• Uber 2.0: human self-driving cars
  Ben Thompson - Stratechery
  
• Oliver Sacks
  Atul Gawande - New Yorker
  
• Walking every street in San Francisco
  Tom Graham
  
• I have one of the best jobs in academia. Here's why I'm walking away
  Oliver Lee - Vox
  

I spent most of last week moving to my new apartment in San Francisco, which meant I had no time to post links.

Here’s a big list to make up for a lost week:

• Tech nerds are smart. But they can't seem to get their heads around politics.
  David Roberts - Vox
  
• Bar Chart Baselines Start at Zero
  Nathan Yau
  
• Aphantasia: A life without mental images
  James Gallagher - BBC News
  
• Viewpoint: Copyright Battle Over State Law Threatens Innovation
  Jake Heller
  
• The Effect of Payday Lending Restrictions on Liquor Sales
  Harold Cuffe and Chris Gibbs - Economist's View
  
• The Story Behind How Pocket Hit 20M Users with 20 People
  First Round Review
  
• The lottery is a tax, an inefficient, regressive, and exploitative tax
  Max Galka
  
• Procedural Dungeon Generation Algorithm
  A. Adonaac
  
• Friends at Work? Not So Much
  Adam Grant - NYT
  
• Driven to Kill, Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit
  Geoffrey Sant - Slate
  
• Academics are being hoodwinked into writing books nobody can buy
  Anonymous Academic - The Guardian
  
• This week, I resigned from my position at Duke University
  Jean-François Gariépy
  
• I am not a story
  Zachary Leader - Aeon
  
• Regretting the Golden Handcuffs
  Matthew Lyon
  
• Broken sleep
  Karen Emslie - Aeon
  
• PC Comedy and Paul Revere
  Sady Doyle - Matter
  
• The hidden economic lessons of the evil eye
  Matt Phillips - Quartz
  
• Economics Has a Math Problem
  Noah Smith - Bloomberg View
  
• Gravity
  Paul Krugman - NYT
  
• Trump is right on economics
  Paul Krugman - NYT
  
• The Thirty-Year Boom
  David Warsh
  

• Why it's safe for founders to be nice
  Paul Graham
  
• The colors of an app icon
  Stuart Hall
  
• The Evolution of Magazine Covers
  Karen X. Cheng
  
• Blendle: A radical experiment with micropayments in journalism, 365 days later
  Alexander Klöpping
  
• Telephone Keypad Design
  Data Genetics
  
• How The Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive
  Josh Giesbrecht
  
• Is China's devaluation a game changer?
  Stephen Cecchetti and Kermit Schoenholtz
  

• Dropbox: The First Dead Decacorn
  Alex Danco
  
• How fixed-gear bikes can confuse Google’s self-driving cars
  Matt McFarland - Washington Post
  
• San Francisco Firefighters Become Unintended Safety Net for the Homeless
  Sarah Maslin Nir - NYT
  
• Crash-Test Dummies as Republican Candidates for President
  Paul Krugman - NYT
  

• The New Reassurance
  Fred Wilson
  
• For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II
  Mike Dash - Smithsonian Magazine
  
• The Problem with Problems
  Thomas Petersen
  
• The Sisters Who Made Our T-Shirt
  Planet Money (Podcast)
  
• How to Stop An Asteroid
  Planet Money (Podcast)