It's always a nice break to see what else is going on out there.

Bad News

Study finds sleep in male full-time workers falls as income rises, with one cause being other leisure activities substituting for sleep. It makes sense that sleep doesn’t cost money while other things often do, but the marginal cost of much leisure is very low. I don’t buy this as the cause. Perhaps reverse causation, those who need or prefer less sleep earn more money?

The productivity statistics continue to be awful, contra Alex Tabarrok part of this recent -3.88% Q1 print is presumably imports anticipating tariffs driving down measured GDP and thus productivity. The more I wonder what's wrong with the productivity statistics the more I think they’re just a terrible measure of productivity?

A model of America's electoral system that primary voters don’t know much about candidate positions [...]

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Outline:

(00:16) Bad News

(01:58) Rules of Confidentiality

(02:44) Something Is Wrong On The Internet

(06:21) Government Working

(08:39) Jones Act Watch

(09:05) Signatures as Solemnization

(12:12) Antisocial Media

(19:43) Technology Advances

(25:12) For Science!

(25:37) Variously Effective Altruism

(28:44) Lab Grown Meat Ban Redux

(36:04) Opportunity Knocks

(36:16) Good Books

(36:57) Commitment

(39:14) How To Pass On Generational Wealth

(42:21) Rain On Your Wedding Day

(44:14) Social Versus Transactional Exchanges

(48:24) While I Cannot Condone This

(54:07) Costly Signaling Is a Weird Name

(56:58) Travel en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural__ Trademark symbol (™) shown as large dark letters

(01:00:22) Good News, Everyone

(01:04:28) Put On a Happy Face

(01:06:44) Egg Prices Keep Going Up

(01:09:04) Cultural Stagnation

(01:11:54) For Your Entertainment

(01:22:33) Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game

(01:27:00) I Was Promised Flying Self-Driving Cars

(01:31:06) The Lighter Side

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