I am so, so happy for Daron (Daron Acemoglu) and Simon (Simon Johnson). It was a joy and a pleasure to work with them MIT Stone Center on Inequality & Shaping Work Incredible scholars, but also such good people. Very well deserved—go follow them and get their book Power & Progress! (P.S., I got to help) 🙂

ever since i was young i wanted to transform unstructured data into actionable business insights

Does it teach them about omitted variable bias?

My new explainer w/Zoe Swarzenski is out: What everyone should know about rural America ahead of the 2024 election #RuralMatters #RuralPolicy #ReimagineRural The Brookings Institution Brookings Global 🧵 brookings.edu/articles/what-…

I'm so excited to know that, six months after its publication, our article on the impacts of generative AI on socio-economic inequalities is still one of the most-read articles of the week in PNAS Nexus. Our point is that generative AI will be like an earthquake, it will

Daniel OpenAI to DeepSeek

Is this what we meant by post-neoliberal place based policy? brookings.edu/articles/china…

How is it that a package sent from across the entire country makes it within 100 feet of your doorstep with near-certainty... But then maybe 5-10% of the time, it's still delivered to the wrong address and you have to go hunt it down? A miracle and a mystery...

I’m proud of Harvard. Classy to stand on American values. Integrity of the highest order. The US has been a beacon of scientific excellence for generations. Now we risk all our strength for no reason at all. Ego has no place in research. Let the researchers get back to work.

Farming.

It’s devastating to watch a fellow Dakotan dismantle the future of American innovation. Since WWII, the US has been a place to study and innovate, where merit and promise rise together. I wish I knew *why* we sacrifice our strength for a marketplace of fear and uncertainty.

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

Culver’s… but most of the nation isn’t ready for that conversation yet

Europeans cannot fathom the Corn Palace

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell, 1984

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