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2026 2

  1. Why Can’t Walnut Creek Build 3 Bedroom Apartments with a Playground?
  2. How to fix the NBA Draft

2025 5

  1. Speeding up Javascript Test Time 1000x
  2. Let Us Open URLs in a Specific Browser Profile
  3. github.com/garyburd/redigo has been deleted
  4. Transcript of Oval Office meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky, JD Vance, and Donald Trump – February 28, 2025
  5. Cities Can Cost Effectively Start Their Own Utilities Now

2022 5

  1. How to Ventilate Your House
  2. How much does a San Francisco Chronicle subscription cost?
  3. Sour Punch Strawberry changed their formula
  4. Get Urgent Care from One Medical
  5. You Can Build a Skyscraper Anywhere in Davis Right Now

2021 9

  1. Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens
  2. Different Realms, Different TLD’s
  3. Fast, Parallel Database Tests
  4. Where are Datadog’s US1 and US3 data centers located?
  5. John Elberling is Probably Cheating On His Taxes
  6. Cheap ideas for slowing down speeding cars
  7. Preferred Stock and Common Stock Aren’t The Same
  8. How to Force a Recall Election for the SF School Board
  9. Decline the 15 Minute Post-Vaccination Waiting Period

2020 5

  1. How to Get a Human Operator on the California EDD Paid Family Leave line
  2. Let employees sell their equity
  3. Building a better home network
  4. To Predict If You’ll Like a Beer, Look at the Hops
  5. If someone asks if you have any questions, ask a question

2019 4

  1. Using a Bernzomatic TS8000 Kitchen Torch to Sear Meat
  2. Phone Number for SFMTA Temporary Sign Office
  3. Using an AWS Aurora Postgres Database as a Source for Database Manager Service
  4. Going Solo, Successfully

2018 14

  1. Improving Bike+Bus Routes through Belmont Village
  2. Why is Caltrain spending $2 billion on electrification & closing SF on the weekends?
  3. Proposed SSF East Side Station Exit Prioritizes Cars, Not Caltrain Passengers
  4. Research on railway suicides and steps Caltrain could take
  5. Bike and pedestrian improvements east of the South San Francisco Caltrain station
  6. AWS’s response to ALB internal validation failures
  7. Amazon’s ALB’s do not validate TLS certificates from internal services
  8. Otto LLC Assignment for Benefit of Creditors (bankruptcy)
  9. Opportunity for more affordable housing in Belmont
  10. Housing by the numbers
  11. Profile Anything in Any Language in Under a Minute
  12. Where is everyone going to live?
  13. How to write Go middleware
  14. Historically Significant Laundromats

2017 10

  1. You Shouldn’t Use Faker (or other test randomization libraries)
  2. Proxying to a subcommand with Go
  3. Running Bazel tests on Travis CI
  4. Make your Go Binaries Homebrew Installable
  5. CircleCI trusts 8 analytics companies with your source code and API tokens
  6. Let’s talk about Javascript string encoding
  7. Things to Use Instead of JWT
  8. Pragmatic Web Development in Go
  9. We Can’t Keep Ignoring the Bay’s Housing Politics
  10. Why Leap Seconds are Tricky and How to Deal With Them

2016 19

  1. Ethical Considerations for Software Engineers
  2. Tradeoffs in Software Provisioning Tools
  3. An API Client that’s Faster than the API
  4. Election Guide (Part 2) – CA Ballot Propositions, State Senate, more
  5. San Francisco Voting Guide – Propositions and Supervisors
  6. Dumb Tricks to Save Database Space
  7. More Comment-Preserving Configuration Parsers
  8. Real Life Go Benchmarking
  9. Cleaning up Parallel Tests in Go 1.7
  10. Buying stocks without a time limit
  11. Six Years of Hacker News Comments about Twilio
  12. A Two Month Debugging Story
  13. The Frustration and Loneliness of Server-Side Javascript Development
  14. Go Concurrency for Javascript Developers
  15. The TSA Randomizer iPad App Cost $1.4 Million
  16. YOUR ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED: STOCK AWARD NOTICE (Ref: LSUK/2031/8161/05)
  17. Encoding and Decoding JSON, with Go’s net/http package
  18. How to push to multiple Github accounts from the same machine
  19. Just Return One Error

2015 11

  1. Safely Moving a Large Shrinkwrapped Dependency
  2. Everything you need to know about state machines
  3. Weird Tricks to Write Faster, More Correct Database Queries
  4. Maybe Automatically Updating Dependencies Isn’t a Great Idea
  5. Avoid Priming Interview Candidates
  6. Don’t Use Sails (or Waterline)
  7. Stepping Up Your Pull Request Game
  8. Logging Database Queries in CircleCI
  9. Fixing Engineering’s Loyalty and Longevity Problem
  10. Node’s `require` is dog slow
  11. Beware tech companies who tell you they don’t negotiate

2014 14

  1. “Invalid Username or Password”: a useless security measure
  2. Profiling ZSH startup time
  3. Ready Player One and a Dystopian View of Future Oil Prices
  4. Hacking Roller Coaster Tycoon with Genetic Algorithms
  5. Use a VPN
  6. Nix: caveat emptor
  7. Levelers
  8. Storing Photos for the Long Term
  9. Figure out when long-running jobs finish, without stopping them
  10. Easy maintenance of your AUTHORS file
  11. The SSL library ecosystem needs diversity
  12. Source code stolen from Github.com
  13. Go to Hong Kong Disneyland
  14. A look at the new retry behavior in urllib3

2013 11

  1. How to create rich links in your Sphinx documentation
  2. New blog post about HAProxy
  3. Automating your IPython Notebook Setup (and getting launchctl to work)
  4. Speeding up test runs by 81% and 13 minutes
  5. Eliminating more trivial inconveniences
  6. Disability benefits: the new unemployment checks
  7. It begins
  8. Submit forms using Javascript without breaking the Internet, a short guide
  9. Helping Beginners Get HTML Right
  10. Designing a better shower faucet
  11. How to design your API SDK

2012 37

  1. How to talk to recruiters at a career fair
  2. Companies Respond To Incentives, Too
  3. How one of the all time great magicians thinks about experiences
  4. Virgin Mobile fails web security 101, leaves six million subscriber accounts wide open
  5. Reddit’s database has two tables
  6. Bash user? Try Zsh, the more usable terminal shell
  7. Why I’m not switching my bank to Simple
  8. Why we’ll never shut down our API
  9. Sentences to consider
  10. What will happen to house prices in the Bay Area after the Facebook IPO?
  11. Virtualenv is an anti-pattern (for beginners)
  12. #1 on HN for Six Hours: Postmortem
  13. “The best recommendations have a lot of verbs”
  14. How not to ask questions at a conference
  15. How to use EC2 as a web proxy
  16. Stop hurting my browser
  17. Better to prevent mistakes than to fix them quickly
  18. How beginning programmers should read a quickstart guide
  19. CMC’s website shows vast improvements
  20. The consulting blog post series
  21. There’s hope for consulting
  22. Consulting Links
  23. Why do companies hire consultants?
  24. What’s the downside to hiring a consulting firm?
  25. Why firms don’t experiment – they want to hire consultants!
  26. Should you invest in the world’s poor, Iraq, or in your heating closet? Three new consulting reports
  27. Save the planet, increase workforce satisfaction, increase productivity by hiring better managers
  28. Is it true that to do the best work, you need to hire the best people?
  29. Getting things done on a terrible Internet connection – the canonical guide
  30. Why consulting?
  31. If you want to be a consultant, what skills should you learn?
  32. A disastrous tale from a young BCG consultant
  33. The evidence for evidence-based management
  34. Don’t skimp on documentation
  35. Can you skip work tomorrow?
  36. So, you’re visiting Silicon Valley’s biggest companies next week
  37. Why I quit Facebook

2011 236

  1. Ten tips to help you stop worrying about shit that doesn’t matter
  2. Why code review beats testing: evidence from decades of programming research
  3. links for 2011-09-27
  4. links for 2011-09-22
  5. links for 2011-09-19
  6. links for 2011-09-16
  7. links for 2011-09-15
  8. Chrome extension to drop jQuery into any site
  9. How to orient your credit card
  10. links for 2011-09-12
  11. links for 2011-09-11
  12. links for 2011-09-10
  13. Tips for designing your personal site
  14. links for 2011-09-08
  15. What you learn from fixing 5 years worth of broken links
  16. links for 2011-09-02
  17. links for 2011-09-01
  18. links for 2011-08-30
  19. links for 2011-08-28
  20. links for 2011-08-27
  21. links for 2011-08-26
  22. links for 2011-08-25
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  27. links for 2011-08-20
  28. links for 2011-08-19
  29. links for 2011-08-18
  30. links for 2011-08-17
  31. links for 2011-08-16
  32. How long does it take for shuffled poker chips to return to their original state?
  33. links for 2011-08-14
  34. links for 2011-08-12
  35. links for 2011-08-11
  36. Your company needs a URL shortener
  37. links for 2011-08-10
  38. links for 2011-08-09
  39. links for 2011-08-08
  40. links for 2011-08-06
  41. links for 2011-08-05
  42. links for 2011-08-04
  43. links for 2011-08-03
  44. links for 2011-08-01
  45. links for 2011-07-31
  46. links for 2011-07-30
  47. links for 2011-07-29
  48. links for 2011-07-25
  49. How to import a CSV file to Google Calendar
  50. links for 2011-07-23
  51. Markdown.css: help make the Web prettier
  52. links for 2011-07-22
  53. links for 2011-07-20
  54. links for 2011-07-18
  55. links for 2011-07-14
  56. links for 2011-07-13
  57. links for 2011-07-12
  58. links for 2011-07-11
  59. links for 2011-07-06
  60. links for 2011-07-04
  61. links for 2011-07-01
  62. links for 2011-06-30
  63. links for 2011-06-29
  64. links for 2011-06-27
  65. links for 2011-06-25
  66. Taking pride in the things you do
  67. links for 2011-06-19
  68. links for 2011-06-18
  69. links for 2011-06-17
  70. Tools I use to get the job done
  71. links for 2011-06-16
  72. links for 2011-06-15
  73. links for 2011-06-14
  74. links for 2011-06-13
  75. links for 2011-06-12
  76. Energy policy isn’t about helping the environment
  77. links for 2011-06-11
  78. links for 2011-06-10
  79. links for 2011-06-09
  80. Bob Geren and effective management
  81. links for 2011-06-08
  82. links for 2011-06-07
  83. links for 2011-06-05
  84. Everything you need to know about personal finance
  85. links for 2011-06-03
  86. CMC’s Website Redesign: the good, the bad and the ugly
  87. links for 2011-06-02
  88. Vaccinate your children
  89. links for 2011-06-01
  90. links for 2011-05-31
  91. links for 2011-05-30
  92. links for 2011-05-29
  93. links for 2011-05-28
  94. links for 2011-05-27
  95. links for 2011-05-26
  96. links for 2011-05-23
  97. links for 2011-05-22
  98. links for 2011-05-21
  99. links for 2011-05-20
  100. links for 2011-05-19
  101. No, I won’t be friends with you on Facebook
  102. links for 2011-05-18
  103. links for 2011-05-17
  104. Test if your server is up, using Ruby
  105. links for 2011-05-16
  106. links for 2011-05-15
  107. links for 2011-05-13
  108. Advice from freshman year
  109. links for 2011-05-06
  110. links for 2011-05-05
  111. How to find a Pearson’s correlation and ordinary least squares in Python
  112. links for 2011-05-04
  113. links for 2011-05-03
  114. links for 2011-05-02
  115. links for 2011-04-29
  116. Kevin goes to Coachella
  117. links for 2011-04-28
  118. links for 2011-04-27
  119. links for 2011-04-25
  120. links for 2011-04-24
  121. Presentation on JIT compilers (and the unfortunate sex life of the banana)
  122. links for 2011-04-23
  123. links for 2011-04-22
  124. links for 2011-04-21
  125. links for 2011-04-20
  126. links for 2011-04-19
  127. links for 2011-04-18
  128. links for 2011-04-17
  129. links for 2011-04-16
  130. links for 2011-04-14
  131. links for 2011-04-13
  132. links for 2011-04-12
  133. links for 2011-04-11
  134. links for 2011-04-10
  135. Sleep
  136. links for 2011-04-09
  137. links for 2011-04-08
  138. links for 2011-04-07
  139. links for 2011-04-06
  140. links for 2011-04-05
  141. links for 2011-04-04
  142. links for 2011-04-03
  143. links for 2011-04-02
  144. links for 2011-04-01
  145. For the college introvert
  146. links for 2011-03-31
  147. links for 2011-03-29
  148. links for 2011-03-28
  149. links for 2011-03-27
  150. links for 2011-03-26
  151. links for 2011-03-25
  152. links for 2011-03-24
  153. Gary Vaynerchuk
  154. links for 2011-03-23
  155. links for 2011-03-22
  156. What I’ve learned, past month or so, part 2
  157. links for 2011-03-21
  158. What I’ve learned last month or so, part 1
  159. links for 2011-03-20
  160. links for 2011-03-19
  161. links for 2011-03-17
  162. links for 2011-03-16
  163. links for 2011-03-15
  164. links for 2011-03-14
  165. The Apartment
  166. High Noon
  167. Email etiquette
  168. links for 2011-03-04
  169. links for 2011-03-03
  170. links for 2011-03-02
  171. links for 2011-03-01
  172. Upcoming talks
  173. links for 2011-02-28
  174. links for 2011-02-27
  175. Usability in common objects
  176. links for 2011-02-26
  177. links for 2011-02-25
  178. Everything I know about debugging
  179. links for 2011-02-24
  180. links for 2011-02-23
  181. links for 2011-02-22
  182. links for 2011-02-21
  183. The Robert Day School is hurting CMC’s leadership efforts
  184. links for 2011-02-20
  185. links for 2011-02-18
  186. links for 2011-02-16
  187. Watson and Jeopardy
  188. links for 2011-02-15
  189. links for 2011-02-14
  190. links for 2011-02-13
  191. links for 2011-02-12
  192. links for 2011-02-11
  193. links for 2011-02-10
  194. links for 2011-02-09
  195. Things I’ve learned, past month or so
  196. links for 2011-02-08
  197. links for 2011-02-07
  198. links for 2011-02-06
  199. links for 2011-02-05
  200. links for 2011-02-04
  201. links for 2011-02-03
  202. links for 2011-02-02
  203. links for 2011-02-01
  204. links for 2011-01-31
  205. links for 2011-01-30
  206. links for 2011-01-29
  207. links for 2011-01-28
  208. links for 2011-01-27
  209. links for 2011-01-26
  210. links for 2011-01-24
  211. Alumni Day talk to Athenian HS students, January 9
  212. links for 2011-01-23
  213. links for 2011-01-22
  214. links for 2011-01-21
  215. links for 2011-01-20
  216. links for 2011-01-19
  217. Goals for 2011
  218. links for 2011-01-18
  219. Martin Luther King Day
  220. links for 2011-01-17
  221. links for 2011-01-16
  222. Eric Ries Talk at LuxR
  223. links for 2011-01-15
  224. links for 2011-01-14
  225. links for 2011-01-13
  226. links for 2011-01-12
  227. links for 2011-01-11
  228. links for 2011-01-10
  229. links for 2011-01-09
  230. links for 2011-01-06
  231. links for 2011-01-05
  232. links for 2011-01-04
  233. Disable ESPN Autoplay
  234. Changes to site RSS feeds
  235. links for 2011-01-03
  236. Auto-lightbox images in WordPress

2010 200

  1. links for 2010-12-30
  2. links for 2010-12-29
  3. links for 2010-12-28
  4. The living funeral
  5. New site layout
  6. links for 2010-12-27
  7. links for 2010-12-26
  8. links for 2010-12-25
  9. links for 2010-12-23
  10. links for 2010-12-19
  11. links for 2010-12-16
  12. links for 2010-12-14
  13. links for 2010-12-13
  14. links for 2010-12-12
  15. links for 2010-12-11
  16. links for 2010-12-10
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  18. links for 2010-12-08
  19. links for 2010-12-07
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  23. links for 2010-11-30
  24. links for 2010-11-26
  25. links for 2010-11-25
  26. links for 2010-11-22
  27. links for 2010-11-21
  28. links for 2010-11-15
  29. A table-based redesign
  30. links for 2010-11-14
  31. The ACM ICPC: a supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again
  32. Sorry for the repeat posts
  33. links for 2010-11-13
  34. links for 2010-11-12
  35. links for 2010-11-11
  36. links for 2010-11-10
  37. links for 2010-11-09
  38. links for 2010-11-07
  39. links for 2010-11-06
  40. links for 2010-11-05
  41. links for 2010-11-04
  42. Google Finance killed my weekend project
  43. links for 2010-11-03
  44. Escaping from your email
  45. links for 2010-11-02
  46. links for 2010-11-01
  47. When corporations are more ethical than individuals
  48. links for 2010-10-31
  49. Preaching the opposite of what you practice
  50. links for 2010-10-30
  51. links for 2010-10-29
  52. links for 2010-10-27
  53. links for 2010-10-25
  54. Targeting the marginal consumer, not the average consumer
  55. links for 2010-10-22
  56. links for 2010-10-21
  57. links for 2010-10-20
  58. links for 2010-10-19
  59. links for 2010-10-18
  60. links for 2010-10-17
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  64. links for 2010-10-13
  65. links for 2010-10-12
  66. links for 2010-10-11
  67. Where do I find cool/interesting links?
  68. links for 2010-10-10
  69. links for 2010-10-09
  70. links for 2010-10-08
  71. links for 2010-10-07
  72. Losing all your work
  73. links for 2010-10-05
  74. links for 2010-10-04
  75. links for 2010-10-03
  76. links for 2010-10-03
  77. links for 2010-10-02
  78. links for 2010-10-01
  79. How to get started in software
  80. links for 2010-09-30
  81. links for 2010-09-29
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  83. links for 2010-09-27
  84. links for 2010-09-26
  85. links for 2010-09-25
  86. How do you respond to failure?
  87. links for 2010-09-24
  88. links for 2010-09-23
  89. Senior thesis thoughts
  90. links for 2010-09-22
  91. links for 2010-09-21
  92. links for 2010-09-20
  93. links for 2010-09-19
  94. links for 2010-09-16
  95. links for 2010-09-15
  96. Quote: “You can be positive and wrong on the sell side…”
  97. links for 2010-09-14
  98. links for 2010-09-13
  99. links for 2010-09-12
  100. links for 2010-09-11
  101. links for 2010-09-10
  102. links for 2010-09-08
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  107. Groupon’s purchase form leads to mistakes
  108. links for 2010-09-03
  109. links for 2010-09-02
  110. links for 2010-09-01
  111. Great Design: Amazon’s sign in form
  112. links for 2010-08-31
  113. Fall 2010 Semester Goals
  114. links for 2010-08-30
  115. Five regrets of the dying, from someone who works in palliative care
  116. links for 2010-08-29
  117. links for 2010-08-28
  118. Four days in Sequoia Nat’l Park
  119. links for 2010-08-27
  120. Typography in the wilderness
  121. links for 2010-08-26
  122. Wilderness first responder training
  123. links for 2010-08-25
  124. links for 2010-08-21
  125. links for 2010-08-20
  126. links for 2010-08-19
  127. links for 2010-08-17
  128. links for 2010-08-16
  129. Recent changes
  130. links for 2010-08-15
  131. Lectures for Basketball Coaches: Fatigue is Entirely a Mental Phenomenon
  132. How to sell a scoop of ice cream for $60,000
  133. Theory of conversation, part 2
  134. Play up the difficulty of genius to preserve your own impressiveness
  135. Have interesting conversations
  136. Why do directors end movies ambiguously?
  137. Coaches at the World Cup: Conservative and stuck in their ways
  138. BART thoughts
  139. What evidence would a person accept to change their mind about their religious beliefs?
  140. How to give to homeless people
  141. The data-driven approach is changing the world
  142. Quote of the day
  143. One failure of globalization
  144. Do you kill good ideas?
  145. Thoughts on CMC’s Graduation, May 15
  146. The downside and upside of our ability to rationalize
  147. More on the difference between millions and billions
  148. Let’s reframe “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
  149. How well can you read faces?
  150. Cognitive Bias of the Week: The Availability Bias
  151. Poor people are probably not happier, or better off, than we are
  152. The infinite bits problem; skills I’d like to build upon
  153. Street Egg Curry recipe
  154. 10 books that influenced me most
  155. Fonts of India
  156. Will America have to spend money to cut emissions? McKinsey says no
  157. Soyabean curry
  158. The future will look like this:
  159. How to sell things to tourists
  160. Theory of garbage
  161. Five types of shitty question askers
  162. How to choose where to eat in an unfamiliar city
  163. How to get tons of reading done
  164. Around the web
  165. Voluntourism: Overseas volunteer trips often hurt more than they help
  166. Good incentives are fragile
  167. Good writing in The Count of Monte Cristo
  168. Kumbulgarh & Ranakpur
  169. Is laissez-faire capitalism such a good thing?
  170. Are corporations evil?
  171. Hernando De Soto’s The Mystery of Capital
  172. Seva Mandir project description
  173. The end of a DVORAK experiment
  174. Clusters of identical sellers in a crowded city
  175. Interrupting pleasurable activities makes them more pleasurable
  176. Pay zero rupees, end corruption
  177. Dispatches from India
  178. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  179. Saying goodbye
  180. Interviews
  181. Beer pong is dumb
  182. Theory of racial identification
  183. Streamlining dorm visitor check-in
  184. Social Status as an institution
  185. Not good news
  186. Fall 2009: Semester in Review
  187. Subsidize measurable benefits
  188. The value of shortcuts
  189. CMC Silicon Valley Trip: Friday
  190. CMC Silicon Valley Trip: Thursday
  191. Usability bleg
  192. Recap/Blog Promise
  193. CMC Silicon Valley Trip: Wednesday. “Drive the boat, don’t let the boat drive you.”
  194. CMC Silicon Valley Trip: Tuesday
  195. Everquest, the great leveler
  196. CMC Silicon Valley Trip: Monday
  197. Notes on a trip to Vegas
  198. Cleaning is cathartic
  199. Great teachers
  200. Notice

2009 166

  1. Quote of the day, things that sound obvious edition
  2. Two good, recent videos
  3. Feeling moral makes you act worse
  4. Game theory
  5. Dean Huang to stay at CMC
  6. Designing user-friendly hospitals
  7. The terrifying new Psychoaster
  8. The environmental movement as a signaling mechanism
  9. Profiting from irrationality
  10. Planning around the planning fallacy
  11. Links for today
  12. The NFL oligarchy
  13. How can we make students write shit that’s worth reading?
  14. Video of the day
  15. How to mislead with graphs: Verizon edition
  16. Links for today
  17. Jerking: the new dance move I might attempt at 2 am on Saturday
  18. Links for today
  19. Will our best works of art survive for 2500 years?
  20. An attempt to quantify my mood: the Kevin Burke Happiness Score
  21. Sign of the times
  22. Nelson Lichtenstein
  23. Drinking
  24. Links for today
  25. Location, location, location
  26. All of your discussion of public policy is pointless.
  27. More news from the department of worry
  28. Dogs and pigs: a double standard
  29. Evaluation of my writing experiment
  30. The end of Annie Hall
  31. Avoiding far bias
  32. Quote of the day
  33. How much is a delta smelt worth?
  34. Amazing cover art on this week’s New Yorker
  35. Finding things to write about
  36. Fareed Zakaria
  37. Marry young, marry bright
  38. Seven Stories career exercise
  39. On surrendering the moral high ground
  40. A better way to bribe African leaders
  41. Not your typical dorm room
  42. Revenge of the Kevins
  43. Create a product that customers want
  44. TV Lunacy
  45. Seatbelts and nav screens
  46. The Republican problem
  47. Inefficiencies in sports
  48. What I’ve been reading
  49. Fallacy to expect solutions from people who understand the problems?
  50. What price life? The problem that will bankrupt our world
  51. Reverse Headphones
  52. Facebook piece on CMCForum.com
  53. Common statistical fallacies, Kyoto Protocol edition
  54. Tourism & opportunity costs
  55. The Invention of Lying
  56. The simplest restaurant
  57. What’s the benefit of having a low admission rate?
  58. Studying what’s really important
  59. Entourage Review (SPOILERS)
  60. Terminal 3 at Heathrow
  61. The benefits of smoking and prostitution
  62. Sentence of the day
  63. Links for the day
  64. Dan Brown dominates the field
  65. Can we please stop talking about Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh?
  66. The NFL: The not-so-rosy view from the top
  67. The opportunity cost of time, an illustration
  68. The didgeridoo guy principle, or, Small details bring a place to life
  69. Good design ensures a poverty program’s success, not money
  70. Back from Scotland
  71. Happy Labor Day
  72. The limited appeal of Jon Stewart
  73. TV Review – Hung
  74. You are competing with the other students in the class
  75. Explaining the news via signaling
  76. Kamen on healthcare
  77. Potential business/website idea
  78. Unfair prices: a brief lesson in supply and demand
  79. Blog redesign
  80. Three great ideas for dealing with rubbernecking
  81. What’s the best game on the planet?
  82. Storytelling bleg
  83. A better business model for KNEX and LEGO
  84. Notes from Camp: Avoiding bias in evaluating work
  85. Cure alcoholism: donate a kidney
  86. Shorter bills, please
  87. Using social relationships as leverage, in Washington
  88. Photo: Scoreboard at AT&T Park
  89. Should laptops come with Internet built in?
  90. Gethuman.com is down
  91. Is there any more self-serving, harmful group in the US than teachers unions?
  92. Top 5 food combinations
  93. Two formerly analog products in need of innovation
  94. Six budget proposals for the California government
  95. Cognitive error alert
  96. Here – you throw this away
  97. Failures of media outlets, part I
  98. Should professional sports players be subject to labor restrictions and draft regulations?
  99. Paragraph of the day
  100. We won’t solve global warming through voluntary effort
  101. The Oakland A’s Lost Advantage
  102. Sentence of the day, sign of the times edition
  103. More on Gladwell, unconventional strategies, etc.
  104. Sign of the (New York) Times
  105. Create your own briefing book
  106. Playoffs stink.
  107. The Role of Prediction Markets in Forecasting
  108. A question for which I’m sure there is a good answer
  109. Tortured logic
  110. Videos that make you laugh out loud
  111. PP of the day
  112. Amazing Graph – GDP With and Without Equity Withdrawals
  113. Mental Health Break
  114. Most investment advice is terrible
  115. So-called “prep schools” for elite young athletes make sense
  116. What can we predict about the future?
  117. NCAA Tournament – Chalk all the way
  118. Millions/Billions in perspective
  119. Where’s the money? There’s something fishy going on here
  120. Horrifying Parts of the Bible, Part I
  121. Short Housing
  122. Changing drunk driving behavior
  123. What’s up with West Virginia?
  124. Quote of the Day
  125. On nationalization
  126. Massive intergenerational transfer
  127. When everyone on your team is more skilled than you are…
  128. Campus blessings: An internet outage
  129. What experience most shaped who you are?
  130. Advice for Mr. Prufrock
  131. How-to: Complete difficult reading assignments
  132. What causes cynicism? Should we be cynical?
  133. Outrage: No Visas for Skilled Foreigners
  134. Beyond the box score: Measuring rebound statistics
  135. Good vs. bad design, part 1
  136. Happy Valentine’s Day
  137. Introducing V.O.W.
  138. I’ve been swamped with work lately…
  139. Links for today, 2/10/09
  140. Bill Gates’ TED talk on education
  141. Quotes, other video, links from the last few days
  142. Three skills I am trying to master
  143. Back Online (Finally)!
  144. Three rules for the internet age
  145. Why is it so hard for academics to communicate their love of the subject?
  146. Links for today
  147. Just talk!
  148. Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers
  149. Simplicity of argument is a dangerous heuristic
  150. When is ignorance a strategy for rational people?
  151. Spring 2009 Semester Goals
  152. File this under “cool things about CMC”
  153. Question for the day
  154. Menus should be shorter
  155. Sentence of the day
  156. Important Issues in Macroeconomics
  157. Quotes and food for thought
  158. Barack Obama And Me
  159. Best PP I read today
  160. More Stupid, Ultra-Conservative Play Calling in the NFL
  161. The difference between 1 million and 1 billion is 999,000,000
  162. Why the Middle East will never find peace
  163. One in ten couples…
  164. Random Thought on Intersections
  165. Are corporations rent-seekers in irrationality?
  166. New Year’s Resolutions

2008 64

  1. Is Wikipedia being fully honest about its fundraising needs?
  2. Theory of gift-giving
  3. Expanding Highways: A Great “Green” Project
  4. Fall 2008 Semester Review
  5. Books I Read This Semester
  6. Predicting teacher quality
  7. Easiest to “make it” in which of the following fields?
  8. Ads That Don’t Make Sense
  9. Links for today
  10. Give other people a chance to like you
  11. Thoughts for the day
  12. Navy 76 Penn 65
  13. CMS Beats #15 Whitworth 73-68
  14. HD box score for Nova-Penn
  15. Why universities spend so much money on sports, and what to do
  16. Why do I blog
  17. One way to spend your years in college
  18. “DS: Well, what’s your biggest criticism of yourself?”
  19. Michigan-UCLA Recap
  20. The Future of the US Auto Industry, in Brazil
  21. Best Thing I Read Today
  22. Conflicting Opinions on Detroit
  23. What I’ve been thinking about lately
  24. Paragraph of the Day
  25. Assorted links
  26. How we choose to spend taxpayer money
  27. Posture
  28. What I Will Be Reading Next Week
  29. Political Campaign Donation Tracker
  30. Quality of Life improvements at my new school
  31. Fun Weekend Quote
  32. Amazing Video w/ Still Camera
  33. People on the Moscow subway do the darndest things
  34. California Statewide Ballot Propositions and Recommendations: Prop 5
  35. California Statewide Ballot Propositions and Recommendations: Prop 4
  36. California Statewide Balllot Propositions and Recommendations: Prop 3
  37. California Statewide Ballot Propositions and Recommendations: Prop 2
  38. California Statewide Ballot Propositions and Recommendatons: Prop 1A
  39. Sail around the world
  40. The Beauty of Capitalism
  41. What do you like best?
  42. Dear Professors
  43. New Habits
  44. Fun links for the weekend
  45. Best sentences I read today
  46. Teaching Principles
  47. Debate thoughts
  48. Cool Election Artwork
  49. The 3 Rules You Need for a Meeting
  50. Richard Posner on the Bailout
  51. Warren Buffett Interview on Freddie Mac and OFHEO
  52. Nassim Nicholas Taleb Called It
  53. Public Dryer Problem
  54. Banks may not be performing as poorly as you thought
  55. Questions for the day
  56. Essential Detailed Home Brew Guide
  57. Quote of the Day
  58. NCAA Seeds, According to Basketball Prospectus
  59. Don’t go see Vantage Point
  60. Sentence of the Day
  61. How spiderwebs work
  62. Don’t bet on sports
  63. Around the Interweb
  64. Soulja Boy (Best Of)

2007 146

  1. The Value of Your Gift Card, in Dollars
  2. Huckabee
  3. Global warming
  4. Watch 8 Year Olds Fight
  5. This Semester at Penn, in the news
  6. Teams are idiots
  7. No Free Lunches
  8. Problems with getting kids to do what you want
  9. Unexpected baseball game interruption
  10. Is it possible to have consistent views, support abortion, and oppose the death penalty?
  11. Two links worth your time
  12. Shibboleth
  13. Apple Does Not Want you to Unlock your iPhone
  14. Don’t Pay for Shit You Can’t Afford
  15. Iran
  16. Iraq 2
  17. Words of Wisdom
  18. Please read
  19. Conkers
  20. Website up
  21. Fed releases
  22. Bless Them
  23. Sentence of the day
  24. Obscure Game
  25. Margaret Yang Is…
  26. Adding (Real) Competition to the NHL
  27. Nigerian Fraud Schemes
  28. Free Trade is Bad for the U.S. Economy?
  29. Fact of the Day
  30. More books out of the library
  31. Correlation Does Not Mean Causation. Correlation Does Not Mean Causation. Correlation Does Not Mean Causation.
  32. Immigration Is Good for the United States
  33. Abdi Farah’s Artwork
  34. Today’s Video
  35. Currently Reading:
  36. Quote of the Day
  37. President Bush’s Speech Last Night
  38. Getting Things Done (Extraterrestrially)
  39. Ichiro Is a Baller
  40. How Good Intentions Make Laundry Machines Worse (and use more energy)
  41. Best Sentence I Read Today
  42. Best College Football Commentary on the Web
  43. How Economists Think About the World
  44. 10% Off at the Penn Bookstore
  45. Guarantee These Rights
  46. Excellent Primer on the State of the Music Industry
  47. Record Numbers of Poppies in Afghanistan
  48. Marques Slocum is Awesome
  49. Iraq, from the Ground
  50. Today’s Quote
  51. Youtube Video of the Day
  52. FDA Approves Seconds
  53. Harry Potter and the Chinese Knockoffs
  54. Last Comic Standing
  55. Dirty Dealings
  56. Flight of the Conchords Lyrics
  57. Around the Web, Wednesday July 25th
  58. Around the Web, Tuesday July 24th
  59. Is This Good News or Bad News?
  60. The iPhone
  61. Money & the 2008 Election
  62. Social Networks
  63. My Favorite New Commercial
  64. How far can you drive with your gas tank on empty?
  65. Want to know more about gerrymandering?
  66. Unbuying iTunes songs
  67. Price Gouging Legislation is a Bad Idea
  68. If You Could Spend A Year…
  69. Good job son, now go out and be somebody
  70. Kitten Links
  71. Final Chapter Mediocrity
  72. Other Penn Blogs
  73. The Warriors just beat the best team in basketball 4 times out of 6: Take That, Barkley
  74. Kevin Burke, You have a message waiting
  75. Refs Can’t Help It
  76. Immigration (again)
  77. Cheap Way to Get Around Email Attachments
  78. Hindsight is 20/20
  79. US Farming Stinks
  80. State of the Recording Industry
  81. Faith Not Taken On Faith
  82. Posner on college
  83. Congrats, Golden State
  84. Days of Carnage
  85. YouTube Video of the Day
  86. Installing/Using/Running Python on a Mac, for Beginners
  87. Health Care Quote of the Day
  88. Proof that Jason Giambi Sucks
  89. Buying Tyler Cowen
  90. Illegal Immigration
  91. Media Attention, Don Imus & Rutgers
  92. Advice For Prospective Penn Students
  93. McCain Out
  94. Why Jeeps Don’t Have Square Headlights & other useful notes
  95. Coulson on Educational Standards
  96. Huh
  97. Finally
  98. Please, Put More Personal Information On The Internets
  99. Frank Thomas Whaling on a 6-Year Old Is Hilarious
  100. I Hate the East Coast
  101. EMI & DRM-Free Music Downloads
  102. Election 2008
  103. Stat of the Day
  104. Youtube Watching Habits
  105. We Are Less Violent Than Ever
  106. Prison Vouchers
  107. How to Be A Successful Freshman at Penn
  108. Quotes of the Day
  109. Pigou Club, Mobility & Unemployment
  110. Shakespeare was a wise man
  111. My Favorite Music Videos
  112. The Right Question To Ask About Iraq Is…
  113. Find Me
  114. Last Night in the NCAAs
  115. Cheap Education Quote
  116. Home Ownership & Unemployment
  117. The Facebook Wall & Atheism
  118. Cheap Pixel Art
  119. My thoughts on the Tournament, seeding, and scoring systems.
  120. Why is the Wall so popular?
  121. Capping the 2008 Presidential Election
  122. Freshman vs. Freshmen
  123. Are You F***ing Serious?
  124. Free Trade & Sports
  125. Carbon Offsets & the Environment
  126. When It Sounds Bad, It Probably Feels Worse
  127. Once You Go Mac, You Never Go Back
  128. If You Are Wagering Tonight…
  129. Skip Psychology 101…
  130. Election 2008
  131. We Root For These Teams To Lose Next Week
  132. Wikipedia
  133. Income Inequality
  134. Keyboard Shortcuts
  135. February Madness – Penn Basketball’s NCAA Tourney Chances (Or, Oh God, I Hope They Give Us Washington State And Not Memphis)
  136. Random Steve Donohue Sighting Last Night
  137. Global Warming
  138. I Don’t Care About Anna Nicole Smith
  139. Futuristic Buildings Now
  140. Iraq
  141. Crime & Punishment
  142. Class Debate – Drug Legalization
  143. Why the Quakers are the Best Team in the Country
  144. Exploratory Committee
  145. Verizon Phones Are Terrible
  146. Pigou Club in the Economist

2006 121

  1. What I Want in a Phone
  2. Call Me Crazy…
  3. It’s Still 2006, And the Midterms Were A Month Ago
  4. Thanks Jay Bilas
  5. On A (Somewhat) Related Note…
  6. The BCS is Dumb (Duh!)
  7. Penn-Villanova
  8. Fake Your Space – Digital Candygrams
  9. Another Year, No Surprise Birthday Party
  10. Correction
  11. Is Bush the Worst President of All Time?
  12. Why Tariffs Are Silly, and How Economists Think About the World
  13. Vacation Reading
  14. Guess the date
  15. This is Too Funny
  16. I Canceled My Facebook Account…
  17. You Know You Think Like A Libertarian When…
  18. An Open Letter – what do you think?
  19. If You Really Want Me to Vote…
  20. Election Endorsements/Predictions
  21. A Smart Idea
  22. Joining the Pigou Club
  23. Quote of the Day
  24. Would the US be worse off with Democrats in power?
  25. Pigou Club
  26. For Those of You Who Play Second Life…
  27. Samuel Beckett
  28. Graduation Speech
  29. I Don’t Want America’s Truck
  30. Google Buys YouTube for $1.65 Billion
  31. North Korea Successfully Launches Nuke, as US Cries Wolf
  32. The Question I Would Have Asked
  33. If You Could Ask One Question to Nancy Pelosi…
  34. NYT Editorial – A Summary of Bush’s New “Anti-Terrorism” Bill
  35. Can’t We Just Agree that No One’s Perfect?
  36. Program Idea – Put Latex in Powerpoint
  37. Flip-Flopping
  38. On Being an Elementary School Teacher
  39. Undergraduate Research
  40. Philosophical Question of the Day
  41. Saturday, September 16: Notable Links
  42. Facebook Screws Up Again (Otherwise Known As, Your Parents Can Now See Your Random Hookups & Drunk Pictures)
  43. Excellent Mac App: Quicksilver
  44. Harvard Ends Early Admissions: Overbearing Parents Everywhere Freak Out
  45. On Experiential Learning
  46. Kill your Facebook Mini-Feed
  47. The Difference Between Knowledge & Intelligence
  48. Clean Nuclear Power?
  49. The Cost of War
  50. How to Fight Terrorists
  51. Pluto Loses Planetary Status
  52. 2nd Rule of Facebook
  53. It Shouldn’t Be Campaign Season Yet
  54. Procreating for America
  55. More on Mr. Aaron Durley…
  56. First Splog Link – I’m Big Time
  57. It’s Okay to Scar Little Kids for Life, I Swear
  58. Review: Snakes on a Plane
  59. The Most Amazing Video Game of All Time
  60. I Want Televised Debates
  61. Penn ‘Slips’ to #7 in US News Rankings
  62. My Favorite Children’s Books
  63. Most Global Sports?
  64. Transferring Files
  65. New Airport Rules
  66. Liverpool @ Sheffield United, Bramall Lane, 4:45 AM PDT
  67. DopeWars Explained
  68. I Couldn’t Care Less about JonBenet Ramsey…
  69. Has anyone else noticed that automatic sinks/flushers don’t work?
  70. Building an A’s Scoreboard Widget
  71. Why Don’t Americans Care More About Energy Waste?
  72. Princeton Review
  73. College Board Expands Into Classroom
  74. Restaurant Etiquette
  75. More Efficient Checkout Times
  76. Airport Security
  77. I want to move to Singapore
  78. A Theory
  79. Free Box/Idea Repository – Revision
  80. Amazon.com Similar Items
  81. The Free Box
  82. Becker-Posner-Blog
  83. Speaking of Ahmadinejad…
  84. What Robert Baer said
  85. Religious Intolerance
  86. The Five Groups of Question-Askers
  87. Liverpool 2-1 Chelsea
  88. BBC NEWS | Business | Wal-Mart boss sentenced for theft
  89. Old kevin
  90. Just Watch It, Seriously
  91. Touché, Mr. Lessig
  92. Geothermal Heating
  93. Liverpool 2-1 Maccabi Haifa
  94. Bargaining for Prices
  95. First Rule for Exes
  96. What about Darfur
  97. New Policy
  98. It’s hard to ghostride a Prius
  99. How to Pick Any Lock
  100. A 152 Mile-Per-Gallon Car
  101. Applying to an Ivy League this fall? Start working.
  102. Wow
  103. Okay, this is pretty cool
  104. MLS All-Stars vs. Chelski, 3:30 PM PST, ESPN
  105. If It’s Too Good to be True…
  106. Big Payouts at 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event
  107. Steroids
  108. Blue Ball Machine
  109. Eddie Pope Retires
  110. Miami Vice, and Variable Movie Pricing
  111. Can anyone tell me…
  112. The State of Iraq
  113. Does Anyone in the World Want Floyd Landis To Be Guilty?
  114. New Article Preview: Cutting Back on Energy Consumption
  115. Guidelines for profile shots
  116. 1st rule of Facebook
  117. Social Conventions – Watching a Performance
  118. Why I couldn’t root for the Italians in the World Cup
  119. 30 Days
  120. What Happened Last Night
  121. I love WordPress already