jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University | Economic History, Labor, Inequality
https://jamesfeigenbaum.github.io/
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I couldn't find the Big Papi dugout tantrum gif I wanted, so Bo will have to suffice
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Top 5 percentile
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Claude, meanwhile, had one damning critique that I really do need to address. But the rest of the report was ~1000 words of no content
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So good and so depressing
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"Here comes the pizza!" But it's different food each time youtu.be/ufSQMXLO95w?...
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A lot of the crayon book sequels are derivative, but the OG and the day the crayons came home are great. There's also an earth day themed one where tan crayon keeps drawing wheat that is apparently the funniest recurring gag my kid has ever seen
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I don't feel strongly one way or the other about the big new building the Lubavitch are proposing (no housing included I don't think). But if the rep from the Kerry Corner Neighborhood Association is pissed off, then that's great
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The kicker: "By approving the multifamily housing ordinance, Cambridge eliminated minimum lot size, so the exemption is gone"
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Since 1979, Cambridge has been exempt from the 1950 Dover amendment. The Dover amendment protects religious and nonprofit educational organizations from local zoning discrimination. But the Cambridge exemption only applied in districts with a min lot size of 1200 sqft.
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I'd like to thank Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers, and Doreen Cronin for their help in raising his class consciousness
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Exactly
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10/ And to reiterate a key point:
CONGRESS 👏 SETS 👏 BUDGET 👏 LEVELS
Today's update is called a **request** for a reason.
And Congress should reject it. History provides optimism:
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Great (and apparently non critical) minds think alike
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Claude agrees
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Claude also points to sector-specific blind spots and self-serving bias. Hmmmm
"The accuracy rate appears to improve when CEOs focus on narrow, technical capabilities rather than sweeping societal transformations, but even then, implementation timelines tend to be overly optimistic."
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Claude gives us a few reasons from the historical record which it almost certainly didn't actually consult:
Consistent overestimation of speed and scope: The "paperless office" was predicted in the 1970s and e-commerce was supposed to eliminate physical retail by 2000.
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Amodei might trust Claude's answer:
CEOs have a notably poor track record when predicting the broader economic impacts of their technologies.
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Goes without saying. But if the market will bear it
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:raises hand:
Childcare is so insanely expensive in the Boston metro area
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We had perfectly mediocre bagels and below average pickles. So given we'd need to fly that from New York to eat that properly, I understand completely
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Agree completely. There's a decent share of my US econ salary that I'd forgo for all of that but it isn't close to what I think the think the ratio of a given Euro econ salary to my current salary would be.
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I think all of that's true. I was selfishly thinking about US trained econs on a "best option, anywhere in the world, search". The work life balance is clearly better but it has to be sososo much better (and maybe it is) to sustain the pay difference
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cc @asteinlight.bsky.social
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Yes and... I'd want to live in Paris or London and I don't think they're doing any better than Boston on this front
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Maybe if we could get black lung from teaching? Or wear hardhats?