Max Shtein

Noted. Also: “ While not to the corned beef level of my beloved Zingerman’s of Ann Arbor…” 🙌👻🥪

@drBazza75 @historyinmemes “Don’t underestimate the bandwidth of a van packed with hard drives driving down the highway.” Also, I totally have that bike!

@historyinmemes Incorrect. This is an early version of email.

How Apple wanted people to use Macintosh

Gordon Moore dies at 92: intel.com/content/www/us…

1960, Orson Welles explained how he wrangled complete creative control for his first film, Citizen Kane, as well as the value of “ignorance” to break through old ideas.

🚨New 📜"Superstar Teams" 🔗bit.ly/lbfTeams22 ❓Does it matter for the macroeconomy who works with whom? 🔧Model of firm organization + micro data (🇩🇪+🇵🇹) 👉Yes! Importance of coworker interdependencies has ⬆️ & this helps explain⬆️between-firm inequality 👇Summary-🧵

Take Materials Science 101. You won’t regret it.

Ukraine Take Shelter - Stripped-down AirBnB for refugees - made by teenagers, BTW: ukrainetakeshelter.com

@ncm140 Congrats on a new adventure! Will miss your insightful writing and curiousity.

I’m about to go in to Michigan Engineering and clean out my desk. I’m taking a leap of faith and starting a new job at the end of August. While I’m super excited, I’m absolutely gutted to leave this amazing place. Why does one chapter have to end for another to begin? 😭

“Why Do Smoke Alarms Go Off In the Middle of the Night?” (Make noise at 2 am but none otherwise. Require to test weekly. Mount in hard to reach places. Check Check Check. If there ever was a thoroughly awful design, look no further than your smoke alarm.) kidde.com/home-safety/en…

Trying to update the firmware on my @Netgear router via the Nighthawk app. It sends me to routerlogin.net and presents this ... shall we say, counterintuitive dialog (editorial is mine). Well done, @Netgear (/sarcasm)

If your workload did not (significantly) decrease over the past seven years, odds are you will be replaced by a robot -- or by someone who knows how to use one.

You know you’ve lived in Michigan for a long time, when...

Dedicated anti-scurvy nook — essential part of every kitchen

@elidourado @mattyglesias Also reading about “flying cars”... 🤫 indeed, the possibilities!

@mattyglesias We must reject the Gordon/Vollrath view that stagnation is normal, healthy, and a sign of success. It is a sign of dysfunction. The US is still a dirt poor country compared to what is possible. We have not already discovered all the useful inventions.

This distinction @mattyglesias makes between techno-optimism and techno-positivism is spot on. slowboring.com/p/you-cant-bla… People saw my tech in the 2020s post as super optimistic, but if you read all the way to the end, I’m concerned we won’t follow through on the opportunity.

Aerosol transmission of Covid-19... seems like taking on a vow of silence maybe good health measure in a monastery,.. in a dormitory,.. restaurant. english.elpais.com/society/2020-1…

Pollen Explains Flu-Like and COVID-19 Seasonality | medRxiv (is the study sound?.. mechanism?.. test in a lab setting?) medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

How apocalyptic is now?.. unherd.com/2020/05/are-we…