These rougher notes—things I read recently and that got me thinking—usually go out as part of the weekly newsletter, but to empty the queue of things, I'm sending them separately today so we can start fresh next week.
Have a good weekend
Rougher Notes
AI Leasing Signals San Francisco Office Revival (CRE Daily) … Interview: Ray Dalio (FT) … What values best distinguish the world's cultures? The machine learning-based cultural values inventory (PNAS Nexus) … How secretive hedge fund Magnetar went all in on AI (FT) … Who Didn’t Do a Hamptons Pop-up This Summer? (Curbed) … On the Decline of Elite-Educated Republicans in Congress (Cambridge Core) … Is the decline of reading making politics dumber (The Economist) … How full are airplanes (FRED Blog) … Is AI Contributing to Rising Unemployment (St. Louis Fed) … Hot mic picks up Putin and Xi discussing organ transplants and immortality (Reuters) … Cohort mortality forecasts indicate signs of deceleration in life expectancy gains (PNAS) … Smartphone use on the toilet and the risk of hemorrhoids (PLOS One) … Exposing AI manipulation in fast fashion (Digital Digging) … The Pill That Women Are Taking for Everything From Speeches to First Dates (WSJ) … ‘You’re a Boomer If You Wear Leggings’: The Rise of Big Workout Pants (WSJ)
Back Sunday with the weekend edition, and next week with another regular note.