Tyler Cowen tells me blog readers like to hear personal details. It feels a bit odd, but hey, let’s try it sometimes. Last weekend I held a party – some reviews here. Today at 4:30 I’m on a Harvard
Tom, due respect for your constructive comment, this blog is written by people who have very productive alternative use of time, and note that it carries no advertising - it's a labor of love. A reader with scarce time can, of course, skip personal posts at negligible cost, meanwhile I think occasional personal details make the blog more welcoming to readers, and hopefully more enjoyable to the authors.
As for the talks, hopefully they'll be recorded; interested to hear the local reactions!
Of course there are readers like Tom who dislike personal information in principle. On the other hand, my suspicion is that Tyler is correct in general. But Robin feels odd doing it because he really doesn't know how to do it at all.
FWIW, I stopped my regular reading of Cowen's Marginal Revolution because of too many personal details. Personal information is everywhere on the internet; quality economic information is scarce - like my time.
Presumably your talk at MIT will get into the backward induction debate Aumann had with Binmore?
Yeah, lasik might not be a bad idea. My wife Marina had a successful variant of it, although now she needs glasses to read things up close, which she did not before.
Professor, might I suggest that after your talk at CCI, you convince somebody to escort you down the street to Senior House, where you will be just in time to see the lighting of the fire for Steer Roast (at 5:00).
I'm seriously considering lasik, to avoid the hundreds of dollars a year I spend replacing lost glasses.
I've already spent over a hundred dollars this year on lost bicycle helmets - is there a doctor I can see to harden my skull?
Tom, due respect for your constructive comment, this blog is written by people who have very productive alternative use of time, and note that it carries no advertising - it's a labor of love. A reader with scarce time can, of course, skip personal posts at negligible cost, meanwhile I think occasional personal details make the blog more welcoming to readers, and hopefully more enjoyable to the authors.
As for the talks, hopefully they'll be recorded; interested to hear the local reactions!
The CCI website (http://cci.mit.edu/hanson.h... says that your talk is on 4/25. I'm gonna chalk that up to a cut-and-paste mistake on the website.
I hear a recent study showed that people wearing glasses don't seem to see any better than people without them.
Don't you realize you should look for them when you realize you can't, you know, see?
Of course there are readers like Tom who dislike personal information in principle. On the other hand, my suspicion is that Tyler is correct in general. But Robin feels odd doing it because he really doesn't know how to do it at all.
FWIW, I stopped my regular reading of Cowen's Marginal Revolution because of too many personal details. Personal information is everywhere on the internet; quality economic information is scarce - like my time.
Presumably your talk at MIT will get into the backward induction debate Aumann had with Binmore?
Yeah, lasik might not be a bad idea. My wife Marina had a successful variant of it, although now she needs glasses to read things up close, which she did not before.
Professor, might I suggest that after your talk at CCI, you convince somebody to escort you down the street to Senior House, where you will be just in time to see the lighting of the fire for Steer Roast (at 5:00).
LASIK is, btw, tax deductible as a medical expense. I suppose it counts as "Glasses" in RAND study terms as well. Sounds worth doing.
glasses - have you looked into mail-order? It's an order of magnitude cheaper.