2024
- Notes on time: economics, discounting, innovation, etc.
2023
- A list of space and defense projects
- Should robots be taxed?
- Public policy cheatsheet
- Regulatory notes and fiscal note reform
- ChatGPT prompts + code for economists
- Abundance agenda
- May you live in interesting times, or just another AI hype cycle
- Neoliberalism in the university: why the Marxists don’t take the analysis far enough
2022
- How to reverse the vetocracy
- A reading list to understand bureaucracy
- Defining knowledge, tacit knowledge, local knowledge, and others
- All the ways Millennials and Gen Z are different
- Is Internet access like electricity? (Is Internet access a general purpose technology?)
- A compilation of my recent broadband work and broadband maps!
- Where Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) goes awry
- Notes on space capitalism
- Some resources for conducting public policy analysis, using James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as an example
- Teens and the impact of social media, a deep dive into recent work from Haidt
- Where broadband likely exists in the United States; an estimation of the broadband gap using logit models
- Musk wants to make Twitter open source. What does that mean?
- The costs of CEQA
- February 2022 Links
- MrBeast confirms the importance of Buchanan's "Order Defined in the Process of its Emergence"
- Is cost stopping people from getting online?
2021
- Notes on automation
- Random research in politics, economics, firms, etc.
- Nov 2021 Links
- Excessive veto power is holding back progress in the United States
- Today’s one-dollar delay is worth $39 billion in the future, some comments on Cowen’s Stubborn Attachments
- My Substack post
- On rhetoric
- The butler did it.
- Philosophy of tech, an outline of theories
- Research paper dump June 2021
- From my recent CSPAN appearance: We need technological atonement
- Notes on McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy
- Links May 2021
- Social media research, a constantly updating bibliography
- When an online community migrates
- [Tech sequence] My fundamental theorems of cognition, technology, and the social
- The Millennial wealth gap
- Notes on economic short-termism
- The rural broadband penalty
- Links April 2021
- Links February 2021
- What I think I am nearly certain about
- Estimates of broadband deployment costs
- COVID-19 and the relocalization of politics
- Big tech, regulation, and the Spence distortion
- I still find it deeply ironic that Noam Chomsky signed the Harper's Magazine letter
- Some unstructured thoughts on Trump, Twitter, Parler and the last two weeks in tech
2020
- Links October 2020
- The Social Dilemma and the naming/knowing dichotomy
- Random links in cleaning up my blog
- What unknown technological invention will have a huge impact on the future? A compilation of Reddit answers.
- The most profound technologies are those that disappear
- Is reasoning inherently adversarial? Some random thoughts, unequally distributed
- iPhones may never be produced in the United States because of supply chain issues
- Capitalism and Breezewood
- Making sense of content moderation, some foundations
- Zuboff’s definition of surveillance capitalism in "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" commits a category error, a crucial misstep in understanding platform technologies
- Two years on, it is clear that the network neutrality fight was meta-miserable
- Links June 2020
- A brief history of competition in telephony 1880-1900
2019
- Links December 2019
- A Call To Arms, or Antitrust Needs More Empirical Bayesian Research [Abstract]
- The limits of Mazzucato's thesis in the The Entrepreneurial State
- Valuing data is a tough task, a reply to Jaron Lanier’s op-ed in the NYT
- Links September 2019
- Some initial thoughts on Collison and Cowen's progress studies concept
- Advertising isn't as effective as you might think; a review of the scholarly literature
- How does the use of GPS affect people?
- The end of the monopoly era in newspapers
- Privacy cost estimation
- There are good reasons to be skeptical that automation will unravel the labor market
- Reviving the Office of Technology Assessment would require a set of specific conditions in Congress. We have simply not arrived at that time.
- Rural broadband isn't like rural electrification, it is actually much harder
- An Esoteric Reading of LM Sacasas
- The kids are going to be alright
2018
- If you’re worried about net neutrality, put your reputation on the line and make a prediction about the future
- Three short responses to the pacing problem of tech policy
- Is there a kill zone in tech?
- Book Review: Cathy O’Neil’s "Weapons of Math Destruction"
- A new survey of rural Americans should make us underweight rural broadband
- A defense of optimism
- Should the US adopt the GDPR?
- How should privacy be defined? A roadmap
- The definition of technology matters for tech policy and growth
- Why did the Facebook stock drop last week? Some economics of decision-making
- It's not all bad; Facebook, Google, Reddit, and Twitter also support positive communities
- Did the Supreme Court get the market definition correct in the Amex case?
- Mandating AI fairness may come at the expense of other types of fairness
2015
- How much is music worth?
- Breaking into the regulation market
- Demand led growth in social media
- Why It’s Important That The Internet Created Technopopulism
- When shall innovation come? A rejoinder to Jacobin’s Red Innovation issue
- The political principal-agent problem
- Law As a Performance of Ideological Assumptions