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When You Like the Article but Not the Author

A friend of mine recently shared a post called "The Ultimate White Privilege Statistics Post". An ambitious title, sure, but the sources look decent, but I think it's well-framed. He... »

Five Ideas That Defined My 2015

2015 was a year where I went in feeling like one person, and came out feeling like an entirely different one. This has happened before, but more than any other... »

Spend your Deadweight Loss on Etsy

Economists hate the holiday season— we see it as a bunch of people mindlessly guessing at each others' utility functions, ultimately producing millions of dollars of deadweight loss for the... »

Empathy is CI for the Soul

In software development, many different developers may be working on the same codebase at once. We each check out a “branch” of that codebase, make some changes, and then merge... »

Values and Bumper Stickers

Thoughts are my own, and do not necessarily represent my employer's perspective. Often companies will publicize a set of 'values' that represent the way they work or aspire to work.... »