“How much inflation can consumers take?

Ask Nestle.

The world’s largest food maker has been able to pass on rising prices to shoppers willing to pay for its popular brands.

But the clock may be ticking.” bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Here is a new one for me. We are heading back to gate bc baggage handlers did not distribute the weight evenly.

Wow.

Microsoft is developing its own Xbox mobile storefront to rival Apple and Google. bit.ly/3D7RjgO

Noted: RTD in mid-November will officially allow e-bikes aboard its buses and trains. Currently they’re banned, a relic policy adopted long ago to keep off motorbikes and the like.

Major film studios working on blockbusters and video game studios working on triple-A titles: “We know art has limits, but how can we connect economics to our artistry?”

Me: “Well, G.K. Chesterton once said: ‘Art is limitation…the essence of the picture is the frame.’

Having lots of convos w folks who are striving to support science & evidence-based policy in a funding world that is increasingly unfriendly to such endeavors. Not sure why this is so challenging but I’m determined to fix it. 🔥

The White House held a listening session today to get feedback on its IoT cyber labeling project.

Agency officials met with IoT vendors, ISPs, standards groups, and other orgs to discuss need for global standards, consumer education, and compliance.

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Do people allocate their attention optimally? In this paper, Erin Todd Bronchetti, Judd Kessler, Ellen Magenheim, Dmitry Taubinsky, and Eric Zwick develop and deploy a methodology to answer this question. Three complementary experiments reject the hypothesis of full optimality

Jamie Robins on how Whitney Newey taught him semiparametric theory 'over the course of a couple of days' and how it took Newey a year to review his influential 1994 JASA paper.

This website is free.

Preface by Harold Guetzkow. Most people have no idea how much of the United States' technological advantage still rests on the basic 'no strings attached' research done under the sponsorship of ONR, AFRL, DARPA and co.

TIL Solomon Ash's famous experiment first appeared in 'Groups, Leadership and Men: Research in Human Relations' (1951), a compendium by the US Navy's Office of Naval Research edited by Harold Guetzkow. play.google.com/store/books/de…

Wow, seems super interesting