Ben Waber

So much this: "It’s all very stupid, but as far as I can tell, not actually illegal."

And yeah, it does look a little like Enron

Do more to preserve her generation’s legacy as immortal memories. #history

In the memo, “Nvidia also responds to claims that the ‘current situation is analogous to historical accounting frauds (Enron, WorldCom, Lucent) that featured vendor financing and SPVs [special purpose vehicles.)’”

@barrons.com $NVDA
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Who Gets What — And Why “In his fluent and accessible book, Mr. Roth vividly describes the successes of market design.” — Economist.com? “In this fascinating, often surprising book...

Last was “Who Gets What and Why” by Alvin Roth, who introduces matchmaking and markets more broadly, reviews different match market classes, the problems that can occur, and the real-world success of algorithms in this area. Highly recommend

Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (7/7)

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy - Kindle edition by Guha, Ramachandra. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy.

Next was “India After Ghandi” by Ramachandra Guha. This is an incredible history, w/Guha setting the stage around India's independence then combining a wide variety of perspectives to study India in the decades since independence. Highly recommend

Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (6/7)

YouTube video by ECGI Panel Discussion | Employees & Corporate Governance

Employees and corporate governance - Christopher Chen, @mana613.bsky.social, Panthip Pruksacholavit, and Jennifer Hill - www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXwB...

Ensuring ESG disclosure accuracy - Takuma Kumashiro - www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCY-... (5/7)

YouTube video by ECGI The Blurring Lines Between Private and Public Ownership - Prof Michelle Lowry

Blurring lines between public and private ownership - Michelle Lowry - www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_3M...

Japan’s approach to M&A - Hidefusa Iida - www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wtr... (4/7)

YouTube video by ECGI A New Era of Unsolicited Takeovers in Japan | Opening Remarks & Keynote Speech: “Barbarians at ...

Japanese boards and unsolicited takeovers - Marco Becht - www.youtube.com/watch?v=17_8...

Firm and institutional investor strategies for unsolicited bids - Marco Becht, Miyajima Hideaki, Wataru Tanaka, Atsuko Furuta, and Yuko Yoshitomi - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihch... (3/7)

YouTube video by ECGI Columbia Law School Conference on M&A and Corporate Governance - Panel 3 | Controlling Shareholders

First was a slate of talks and panels from the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI):

Panel on controlling shareholders - Stephen Fraidin, Jack B. Jacobs, Mark Lebovitch, @annmlipton.bsky.social, and Daniel Slifkin - www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXO-... (2/7)

A selfie of me in a dimly lit home office with sea foam green walls. I’m a bald, middle-aged, white man with a red beard flecked with white. I’m wearing glasses with thick black rims and a maroon and white MIT sweatshirt.

I was under the weather this weekend, and while recuperating I read some books and listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/7)

“I took that to be the point of Holocaust education. Not to exceptionalize Jewish suffering, but to activate solidarity. To recognize that there is a continuum of atrocity perpetrated by dominant classes against subjugated ones. The Holocaust shows where, once normalized, such things can lead…”👇🏽

There's also something here that's underdiscussed and unknown if you're not from a developing country, which is that many people at home, from your home country, think you're a traitor for leaving and they think the xenophobia you experience abroad is well-deserved.

This sort of rhetoric is often

Tokyo demonstrates how easy this problem is to solve. Everyone outside of Japan thinks of it as an expensive city, but today you can get essentially a two bedroom apartment a 10 minutes from Shinjuku for $800/month (e.g. suumo.jp/chintai/jnc_...)

a cartoon says we 've tried nothing and were all out of ideas Alt: A clip from The Simpsons with Ned Flanders' beatnik parents and his mom saying: "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas."

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A Hedge Against AI Crash Emerges as Oracle CDS Market Explodes Traders have piled into the company’s credit-default swaps in recent months as Oracle’s massive AI-related spending spree, its central role in a web of interrelated deals, and its weaker credit grades...

Chat, is it good if the shorting mechanisms that presaged the 2008 crash are exploding in popularity? finance.yahoo.com/news/hedge-a...

A man in a Batman costume and a pregnant woman in a crowded subway car, their faces obscured by pixelation. Text on top of the image reads: "Fig. 1: An example of the experimental setting, with Batman and a woman simulating pregnancy stand in a crowded metro"

Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

FYI @alexhanna.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social this will probably be up your alley

Secrets of Sleep Science: From Dreams to Disorders Amazon.com: Secrets of Sleep Science: From Dreams to Disorders (Audible Audio Edition): Craig H. Heller, Craig H. Heller, The Great Courses, The Great Courses: Books

Last was "Secrets of Sleep Science" by Craig Heller, who provides a solid foundation in sleep science - its biological underpinnings, theories around the exact function of sleep, and its effects in humans and other animals. Highly recommend

Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (5/5)

YouTube video by The GW Competition & Innovation Lab AI & Antitrust Webinar Series Part 3: AI-Assisted Price Discrimination

Next was an engaging panel on the regulatory implications of AI-assisted price discrimination at the GW Competition & Innovation Lab with John Yun, Miroslava Marinova, Jorge Padilla, and Christian Bergqvist www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wozg... (4/5)

YouTube video by GRASP Lab Fall 2025 GRASP SFI - Wei Wang, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Next was an interesting talk by Wei Wang on creating effective marine robots at the @grasplab.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVCO... (3/5)

YouTube video by UCLICTV UCLIC Seminar - Robin Welsch 19.11.2025

First was an amazing talk by @robinwelsch.bsky.social, who shows that telling ppl a system uses "AI" (even when it's a placebo) improves performance, impairs insight into their own task accuracy, and breeds overconfidence, at @uclic.bsky.social Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aQ3... (2/5)

A selfie of me in front of Mellon Hall at HBS on a bright day. I’m a middle-aged white man with a red beard flecked with white. I’m wearing a neon green LL Bean beanie, black sunglasses, and a black New Balance running jacket over a dark blue running shirt.

I headed over to Harvard for some meetings, and after taking in the atmosphere before they shellac Yale I listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/5)

I can report that the mood on the Harvard campus is positively jovial. Not sure if it's due to their impending massacre of Yale or the removal of a noted predator from the vicinity

I'm mentally preparing myself for this. In the 2000s I did this with a ton of lab machines that were new, but something about doing it to my personal machine, combined with decade long gap, is making me nervous that I'll accidentally brick my machine

The Doctor Who Wasn’t There This gripping history shows how the electronic devices we use to access care influence the kind of care we receive.The Doctor Who Wasn’t There traces the long arc of enthusiasm for—and skepticism of—e...

Last was "The Doctor Who Wasn't There" by Jeremy Greene. Medicine always seems to be entangled with the latest technological fads, and here Greene analyzes this fascinating and important history. Highly recommend

Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (7/7)

The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder — Harvard University Press When Steven Burd, CEO of the supermarket chain Safeway, cut wages and benefits, starting a five-month strike by 59,000 unionized workers, he was confident he would win. But where traditional labor act...

Next was "The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder" by David H. Webber, who argues that public sector workers can through pension funds utilize their shareholder voting power to drive more worker-friendly policies

Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (6/7)

YouTube video by Stigler Center Making Markets Work for People: Digital Platform Regulation

Next was a great talk by @proffionasm.bsky.social on digital platform regulation at @stiglercenter.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw7O... (5/7)

YouTube video by UCL Laws Debating Digital Constitutionalism: A Benthamian Perspective

Next was an intriguing talk by Guillaume Tusseau on digital constitutionalism at @laws.ucl.ac.uk www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc6Q... (4/7)

YouTube video by Hopkins Natural Philosophy Forum Michael Tomasello, What Makes Humans Human? | Natural Philosophy Symposium 2025

Next was an excellent talk by Michael Tomasello on decision making in humans and our relatives at Johns Hopkins www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH-t... (3/7)

YouTube video by Digit Research Centre Digit Debates - Florence G’Sell

First was an interesting talk by @flogsell.bsky.social on implementation challenges in EU AI regulation at @digitcentre.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZGQ... (2/7)