As someone who has never needed help finding interest in things most people find boring, I would highlight the word “important” here for my younger self. There are many games offered in the world that you shouldn’t play even with commanding advantages.
@patio11
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Tech Giants’ No-Poaching Conspiracy: Antitrust Implications
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Only when they actively collide, which has happened. (The “no-poaching” conspiracy certainly counts.)
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BigLaw Salary Coordination Responds to Tech Wage Competition
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BigLaw cartel (I think that is a reasonably fair characterization for a group of nominally competing firms capable of synchronizing a salary schedule) updates monopsony to compete with tech/etc wages.
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Why ACH Return Windows Lag Behind Database Capabilities
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“So what sort of information is in your newsletter? Stock tips?”
“No mostly it is for the sort of people who wonder why an ACH return window is as long as it is when databases are clearly capable of working faster than that.” -
Job Title Classification: From NAICS Code to Software Consultant
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Good old 519130: “Internet Publishing And Broadcasting And Web Search Portals.” I eventually got him to accept “software consultant.”
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Creator Economy Platforms and Business Model Complexity
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Banker: Would you say you are a business owner?
Me: Yes.
Banker: What is it you do?
Me: Uhhh it’s complicated. First half of it: Have you heard of Substack?
Banker: No.
Me: Alright in that case does your form allow specifying an NAICS code?
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LLM Impact on Tyler Cowen’s Production Function
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What changed most in the Tyler Cowen production function since LLMs became widely available and what will change most over next 5 years assuming continued improvements?
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Can Good People Be Incompetent at Work?
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“Can someone be good, competent, and bad at their job?” Many people have a very wide view of what counts as “competent”, and of course many people who do not increase the productivity of teams they are employed on are wonderful dinner companions and broadly of good will.
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Competence-Based Governance: Reallocating Authority from Poor Performers
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And if someone is good, competent, and very bad at predicting prices, their votes get reallocated to someone who is *actually* good at the job, without ever needing to explicitly tell the first person “It a failure of society that you got as far as the chair you sit in.”
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Markets depersonalize disagreements by making them low-stakes price arguments
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One of the hidden functions of markets is to depersonalize arguments over the future by making them low-stakes arguments about current prices. All parties know there will be new current prices tomorrow, so not worth e.g. holding grudges over disagreements on yesterday’s prices. https://
t.co/rDR7mLSlHY