I had a long-running gag on Twitter where I'd offer to come to the rescue of some delicious food that wasn't selling well (avocados, Girl Scout cookies, boatloads of European cheese, Belgian fries) and I stay true to my mission—PIZZA SHOPS I AM HERE FOR YOU www.wsj.com/business/hos...

I wrote a little bit about my experience with the forecasting contest (hi Prof. Pugel!) netwert.com/ideapad/2025...

Halfway through business school, and approaching age 30, I fell in love with macroeconomics and asked my professor about changing careers. He told me I was probably too far along my career path to start fresh as an economist. Obviously I should have gone for it. braff.co/advice/f/our...

I play in a fun online poker tournament www.wrgpt.org where today I folded a hand that took a lot of thought. Afterward, I plugged the scenario into the big AI engines to see how they'd play it. I got great advice: —ChatGPT: definitely call! —Perplexity: definitely fold! —Gemini: definitely reraise!

This is low-key one of my favorite stats of the year, regarding ticketing drivers in NYC bus lanes: "The MTA states that ... just 9 percent of drivers commit a second bus-lane violation after being fined once." www.westsiderag.com/2025/12/03/a...

RIP Todd Snider youtu.be/CZWuDkHLBLo?...

Microsoft Teams says a person is “in a call” which is abrasive phrasing to this New Yorker who knows a person goes ON a call

The New York City Marathon is spectacular for its amateur scale. But the ABC TV coverage hasn't shown any of that, just the pros, over and over. All I want on marathon morning is that great aerial of the masses running over the Verrazzano

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I did have a '93 SE-R, and while it may be a punchline here, back then it was a pretty perfect driver's car. (Pretty specific to use the SE-R, which Car & Driver said "finds gears as if by divine guidance".) maxread.substack.com/p/the-oscar-...

Five Guys email subject line: "We are more than just burgers!" Message shows a patty melt (burger on rye), BLT (baconburger without a burger), grilled cheese (cheeseburger without a burger) and hot dog (🤷...)

It is flat-out ridiculous that I am leading a macroeconomic forecasting contest against 150 other folks including some serious professionals. But hey, check me out (at bottom) braff.co/advice/f/not...

I don't know how I feel about the methodology, but saying "'How Soon Is Now?' is the most underrated song of the decade" is a pretty inarguable statement www.cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/the-most-u...

Slightly diminish a band: LL Tepid J

Slightly diminish a band: Stone Temple Copilots

Slightly diminish a band: Queens of the Paleolithic Era

Slightly diminish a band: Jane’s Craving

Slightly diminish a band: Grand Funk Model Railroad

Slightly diminish a band: G. Love and Ketchup

Slightly diminish a band: Frankie Goes to East L.A.

Slightly diminish a band: KC and the Partly Cloudy Band

Slightly diminish a band: Jog-DMC

Slightly diminish a band: Clap Your Hands Say I Guess So

Slightly diminish a band: Cigarettes After Foreplay Told you I could do this all day

Slightly diminish a band: Spin Physician’s Assistants

Slightly diminish a band: the Gamma Band

Slightly diminish a band: Subarctic Monkeys

Slightly diminish a band: the Wu-Tang Affiliate Partnership

Slightly diminish a band: the Auxiliary Police

Slightly diminish a band: Boyz II Adolescents

Slightly diminish a band: Likerboy

Slightly diminish a band: Fishcartilage

Slightly diminish a band: the Mighty Bosstones “I could do this all day,” and I really might

Slightly diminish a band: No La Tengo

Slightly diminish a band: Huey Lewis and the Gossip

Slightly diminish a band: Jefferson Paper Airplane

Slightly diminish a band: Foo Sparring Partners

Slightly diminish a band: Hug

Slightly diminish a band: Judas Deacon

I was the internet's charter member of the DJ LeMahieu Fan Club. The Yankees gave him a six year contract when his career suggested he should get four, so here we are. Farewell to one of the only player to win a batting title in both the NL and AL www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/07/yank...

Delighted to be featured in Manuel Moreale's People and Blogs interview series today. manuelmoreale.com/pb-david-wer...

How come the Yankees only have two day games on weekdays the rest of the season? (One, really, if you don't count Juneteenth.) Where did they all go? /cc @yankees.com

OK, so I did this. 1. Skype.com redirects to Microsoft Teams. 2. Logging in requires new account setup "with Skype contacts migrated". 3. Completed, I land on a Teams dashboard. 5. Skype DialPad is tucked into a … menu. 6. But it still works. I dialed my cell phone. Call complete! $16.96 preserved!

Update: Skype asked me to log in and keep my account active so I don't lose my $16.96

When I’m cleaning up the kitchen, I like to think about the user research that went into whether ziploc bags out of the box should default to open or closed

Hot take of the day: Manhattanhenge is overrated

Ben Folds Five Easy Pieces

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice in Chains

Pumping Iron Maiden

Last week the Citibank home page stopped displaying the login box for me (Chrome/MacOS) and no amount of fiddling with settings and extensions has brought it back. Pretty tough to go to the bank when they hide the front door

How is Trader Joe’s selling Top Crop blueberries from New Jersey in mid-May? We are about a month ahead of the season, and it has not been a warm spring. Where’d they get them?