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Note: Today (4 June 2024) marks the 35th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. The Jevons paradox refers to the unintended consequences that can result from technological progress: on the one hand, improvements or innovations in technology not only … Continue reading →

This weekend, I attended the Ninth Annual Civil Procedure Workshop (#CPW9) at the venerable law school formerly known (until just last year) as the Hastings College of Law (now UC Law), and one of my favorite works hands down at … Continue reading →

It’s been a few years since I have dabbled in game theory (see here and here, for example). Nevertheless, building on the work of Andrew Munro, Scott Page, and others, I am happy to report that I will be presenting … Continue reading →

To close out the month of May, below are my previous posts on Assault Brigade 2506, on the Cuban Liberation Air Force, and on the Sixth Battalion (my father’s unit) — may he rest in peace and may our beloved … Continue reading →

Via Wikipedia: “Saudade is an emotional state of melancholic or profoundly nostalgic longing for a beloved yet absent something or someone.” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade) See also this report (via NPR), which is paradoxically titled “An Untranslatable, Undeniably Potent Word”.

You can read the entire list of “23 truths I wish I knew at 23” here, though I especially appreciate item #5.