Assorted links #30
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Pricing Money: A Beginner’s Guide to Money. Bonds, Futures and Swaps
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Seinfeld Law: An Outrageous, Egregious, Preposterous, take on the legal issues of Seinfeld
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The ergodicity problem in economics: A good paper. Hattip: Luca Dellanna's book, Ergodicity (a decent book that can easily be skippped if you are already familiar with the writings of Nassim Nicholas Taleb). Related, I also like this paper on group-to-individual generalisability, including topics such as ergodicity, the ecological fallacy, Simpson’s paradox, and how to understand the relationship between intraindividual and interindividual variables.
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The history of the term "planet" is not what you probably think it is
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Henry Marsh: ‘Preparing to die has a lot to do with having had a good life’: A great interview with Henry Marsh. I liked this part: "Many treatments are expensive, and the public health system cannot afford them. More diapers are sold for the elderly than for children. 30 years ago I would have died of cancer; now I will die with cancer, but not of cancer. Cancer is, fundamentally, a disease of the elderly. The probability of having it at 70 is a thousand times higher than that of having it at 20. But dementia terrifies me more. I couldn’t bear to become a nuisance." I feel the same way. I am not afraid of dying, but I am afraid of not living on my own terms. As Atul Gawande writes in Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End: "Our reverence for independence takes no account of the reality of what happens in life: sooner or later, independence will become impossible. Serious illness or infirmity will strike. It is as inevitable as sunset. And then a new question arises: If independence is what we live for, what do we do when it can no longer be sustained?"
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Ailing Brussels: Portrait of a city where inequalities operate in a vicious circle
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The Deep Sea: Worth checking out (again) in the wake of the OceanGate submersible implosion.
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The Asterix Annotations: Book annotations for Asterix (I am more nostalgic about European comics like Asterix and Tintin than anything Marvel).
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150 Most Legendary Restaurants in the World & Their Iconic Dishes
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Common Bugs in Writing: I should follow some of the advice, e.g., 'If you find yourself saying "In other words," it means you didn't say it clearly enough the first time. Go back and rewrite the first attempt.'
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Why European Trucks Are Different: Maybe I have played too much Euro Truck Simulator 2 but I found this interesting.
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Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023: Great dynamic data visualisations on sustainable development.
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John List’s The Voltage Effect: A review: A review by Jason Collins very much in line with my own reading of the book.
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