- Ginkgo Bioworks, an MIT spinout that recently went public via SPAC gets attacked in a short seller report by Scorpion Capital. Very aggressive language.
- Do you ever answer a question by saying: “That’s a great question!“. You probably won’t do that so often after listening to this hilarious podcast with Steven Dubner of Freakonomics.
- A scathing review of Eleven Madison Park‘s new vegan menu by Pete Wells: “In tonight’s performance, the role of the duck will be played by a beet, doing things no root vegetable should be asked to do.” (Paywalled).
- Modern strategies for charitable donation and public funding, notably “Quadratic Funding” by Vitalik Buterin. Something I’m thinking about doing.
- An Econtalk podcast covering two ideas on how to improve public governance and discourse – the second is the idea of creating a “fantasy public intellectual league“, a bit like fantasy football, but public intellectuals are scored according to how self aware and considering they are of counterarguments and empirical evidence.
- Quite a confrontational and highly recommended podcast on Utopian Feminism with Amia Srinivasan and Tyler Cowen.