Noted. Also: “ While not to the corned beef level of my beloved Zingerman’s of Ann Arbor…” 🙌👻🥪
Let Gary guide you through five Manhattan restaurants that won’t make you barf. garyshteyngart.substack.com/…
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1960, Orson Welles explained how he wrangled complete creative control for his first film, Citizen Kane, as well as the value of “ignorance” to break through old ideas.
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🚨New 📜"Superstar Teams"
🔗bit.ly/lbfTeams22
❓Does it matter for the macroeconomy who works with whom?
🔧Model of firm organization + micro data (🇩🇪+🇵🇹)
👉Yes! Importance of coworker interdependencies has ⬆️ & this helps explain⬆️between-firm inequality
👇Summary-🧵
Ukraine Take Shelter - Stripped-down AirBnB for refugees - made by teenagers, BTW: ukrainetakeshelter.com
“Why Do Smoke Alarms Go Off In the Middle of the Night?” (Make noise at 2 am but none otherwise. Require to test weekly. Mount in hard to reach places. Check Check Check. If there ever was a thoroughly awful design, look no further than your smoke alarm.) kidde.com/home-safety/en/us/…
Trying to update the firmware on my @Netgear router via the Nighthawk app. It sends me to routerlogin.net and presents this ... shall we say, counterintuitive dialog (editorial is mine). Well done, @Netgear (/sarcasm)
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If your workload did not (significantly) decrease over the past seven years, odds are you will be replaced by a robot -- or by someone who knows how to use one.
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We must reject the Gordon/Vollrath view that stagnation is normal, healthy, and a sign of success. It is a sign of dysfunction.
The US is still a dirt poor country compared to what is possible. We have not already discovered all the useful inventions.
Aerosol transmission of Covid-19... seems like taking on a vow of silence maybe good health measure in a monastery,.. in a dormitory,.. restaurant. english.elpais.com/society/2…
Pollen Explains Flu-Like and COVID-19 Seasonality | medRxiv (is the study sound?.. mechanism?.. test in a lab setting?) medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Finally updated to iOS 13.4.1 a few days ago & started seeing rapid drops in battery power levels without change to usage pattern. Several %/minute of web browsing! And Mail stopped working. Let’s see... lacks energy, overheats, can’t communicate... my iPhone’s got coronavirus?
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Patrick says fastgrants.org has received a lot of good applications.
It will be interesting to see if making decisions in 48 hours based on a 30-minute application yields worse research than the current excruciating grant application process. I bet it doesn't.
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We just paid multiple phone bills, filled up a few gas tanks, a couple grocery carts and provided 3,000 meals to Washtenaw County via food gatherers. 🙌🏼 @flowed3d I hope the piece brings you as much joy in receiving it as it has for me in letting it go.
Apparently, most of the lung is close to your back, including the smallest capillaries?.. To help oxygenate, lay on your stomach. Potentially helpful breathing technique: youtu.be/HwLzAdriec0