Things I've Written

• Thoughts on the Frontier Lab Economic Index August 2026
• AI RCTs are booming – to be useful they must evolve August 2026
• What Will AI Do To Global Inequality? August 2026
• Literally all of you are misunderstanding Keynes’ “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren” July 2026
• Millions of People Are Using LLMs Who Have Never Googled Anything February 2026
• Notes on Maputo October 2025
• Meta's Billion Users Are Playing a Different Game September 2025
• Can we solve the industrial revolution? May 2025
• The Gap Between AI Exposure and Usage February 2025
• Updating Acemoglu's AI Math: Economics in Real Time February 2025
• Questions from a month in San Francisco January 2025
• Berkeley, California January 2025
• Mark Lutter Hates Star Trek January 2025
• Jacobsen's Nuclear War April 2024
• 24 frames from The Act of Killing (2012) January 2024
• Why cash attenuates in the long-term December 2023
• Cash benchmarking December 2023
• Quick takes on the Copenhagen Consensus Center's Halftime list December 2023
• Where and when did I hear the most thunder? May 2023
• Interesting People of Economics: Robin Farquharson March 2023
• How I Will Learn About the Next Pandemic February 2023
• Highlights: On Translating Poetry February 2023
• Hospital pricing, ambulances, and qualitative research January 2023
• Restaurant: District Chophouse, Dulles Airport January 2023

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