Chad Aaron Hall

Obviously, people are not as productive as they work longer and longer hours. It’s bad for health. It’s especially bad for women, people with families, people who have to care for elderly parents, people with children, and so forth. (My Hoover colleague Val Bolottnyy has a nice paper with Natalia Emanuel showing how overtime hurts women, even with... See more

More importantly, reading thoughtful rebuttals outsources the expertise and extensive thinking required to find the flaws in big ideas to someone qualified to find them. Invariably, someone who has spent their entire life reading and thinking about a topic will do a better job noticing what’s wrong with an idea than you will.

I think there will be an initial phase in which the digital and analog worlds will develop together side by side and there will be few connections between one world and the other. This will then be followed by a second, more hybrid phase, in which the two worlds will be interwoven in a reciprocal exchange.

I don't think there's anything wrong with treating productivity literature as leisure reading.

“Entertaining” does kind of work—albeit entertaining in the way a car crash is, where you can’t look away. But I don’t think it’s specific enough. It’s not the real measurable angle. Instead, what I think is that if you look at America from around a decade ago, say, 2012 on, the more apt descriptor is that American culture is increasingly unable to... See more

Consider what he is saying. Not only will Meta’s curation on feeds like Instagram and Facebook be entirely algorithmic, but the content will largely be produced by algorithms, too. No longer will there be middlemen—your aunt, a friend from high school, or a Taylor Swift fan account—that you are responding to. Instead, you’ll be interacting directly... See more

What logic could possibly be upended by punks, goths, gabbers, or neo-pagans when the internet, a massively lucrative space of capitalization, profits off the personal expression and political conflict of its users?