Thursday Twitter hits, and only one of them is ≤140 characters
Nassim Taleb breaks with Russ Roberts. I learned about EconTalk from Taleb, after he wrote it was the only podcast worth participating in as a guest. The two haven’t had any public exchanges in two years so this was not much of a surprise. I continued listening to EconTalk, though with mixed feelings.
Where are the Mozarts of our time? On one hand I agree that too much of the “top talent” is “wasted on writing algorithms to move trades a quarter of a thousandth of a millisecond faster.” On the other hand, isn’t Lin Manuel Miranda the Mozart of our time?
Why are doctors less respected? Because “optimizing performance” and “curing disease” are two different things entirely, and you can’t do both while also acting as the nanny nagging about car seats, guns in the household and other matters which have much to do with well-being but nothing with disease.
What happened to Harvard? This is so confirmatory of everyone’s worst fears about the Ivy League schools that I remain skeptical.