High altitude #ECON5k. Ran in Quito, roughly 9,300 feet above sea level. Quito is a very beautiful city! The Andes are no joke, they are big.

time for a “who goes to prison last” tontine

Running the #ECON5k yesterday on a breathtakingly beautiful day in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

My startup has created an easy-to-use AI-powered tool that can oversee and put useful guardrails on the operations of AI-powered newsroom vending machines. We are looking for investors and willing to sell 20 percent at a $100 million post-money valuation.

The Charles River freezing over.

Posting this because I am curious about whether any of my fellow avid senior amateur athletes have started to use the new continuous lactate monitoring technologies. www.triathlete.com/gear/tech-we...

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It was very cold but extremely fun

Modeling the 2026 #ECON5k gear. For more information go to sites.google.com/view/econ5k/home Cc @econ5k.bsky.social @inaganguli.bsky.social @sandrahgoff.bsky.social @yanarodgers.bsky.social

<me, a professor> “but actually you technically can’t wrap something in piss”

“never turn against other insiders”

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sky-man is my goatmaster

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look we really don’t know for sure that Aristotle or Socrates wouldn’t also have sought Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship advice if they had lived long enough

oh my goodness gracious

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That is my long-time go-to car wash. Folks there always seem really nice.

I’ve never seen a convincing explanation for how Jeffrey Epstein actually made his money, the nature of the actual tax and finance services he provided clients. One hypothesis that could fit a lot of facts that are otherwise hard to explain was that he helped clients fraudulently “reside” in….

Larry Summers? The economics professor?

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why does Facebook keep trying to get me interested in videos about how to survive in prison

watching construction of a new dormitory on campus and starting to get a little curious about construction materials sourcing

RIP, my frequent double scull partner Ellen Spear. The obituary is nice. I got to see the rowing side of her, that side of her was focused and very tough. We raced together this summer; cancer went fast enough to leave all of us who rowed with her in shock. www.berkshireeagle.com/news/local/b...

A good friend described to me meeting in 2012 or thereabouts with some billionaires who supported Obama in 2008 but had turned on him by 2012. He said the billionaires told him that President Obama had been way too mean to Wall Street, he had said some very, very hurtful things about Wall Street.

Fwiw my wife works with a nonprofit that serves lower-income families in the Boston area and the amount of gratuitous and destructive cruelty now being dealt to the folks she works with is totally insane.

wishing you and yours a very happy Halloween

Operación Rosario II

Brawndo steam’s got what catapults crave

If the Democrats want to win elections, they must run on correlation is causation

Stanford ‘95 still has some wheels

Were pornographic faxes ever a thing?

woke up early this morning but no calls from Sweden yet. my phone is on

Many people are asking me who will win the Nobel Prize in Economics on Monday. While I don’t know for sure, this year I think that it will be Satoshi Nakamoto, or Emmanuel Saez.

In Massachusetts it is illegal to sell a rabbit with dyed fur. malegislature.gov/Laws/General...

same

a lot of my friends are saying this