1. (interesting as much for clues on how India works than actual economics) HT Tyler Cowen
2. Score one for the core (tricky incentives for how performance affects politics)
3. This guy created a 1,284 slide deck on how to live life (you may mock, but I appreciate the effort)
4. When times are tough, it’s better to mate with someone — even the wrong one — than with no one at all (for humans too?)
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6. Arnold Kling responds to my Obamacare post (he is right that starting points matter)
1. Is the division of labor a form of enslavement?
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3. Ferguson violent crime rates
4. At this German car maker, emails received on vacation are automatically destroyed
5. But maybe email isn’t that bad if workers are engaged
6. Six myths in NYT math piece
7. The Economist on Bostrom on artificial intelligence (HT Adam Hawf)
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3. Why it’s hard to catch you’re own typos (as this blog will undoubtedly illustrate)
4. Kling on Manzi on Basic Income
5. Do people really pass from Fifty Shades of Grey to Alice Munroe? (and Auden’s addition to detective novels)