The time is now. It's running out.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined October 2007
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Sean retweeted
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I remember reading this article and suddenly realizing how illuminating economics could be. Posner raised the world's effective IQ.
We mourn the loss of Senior Lecturer Richard Allen Posner, a longtime #UChicagoLaw scholar, former federal appellate judge, and pioneer in the field of law and economics, who died on November 10.
Read more about his legacy: buff.ly/e3c3WdL
ALT In loving memory of Richard Posner 1939-2026
An absolute giant of the law and someone who really personified the type of relentless curiosity and productivity that I deeply admire.
I am so, so sorry to learn of the death of Judge Richard Posner. I was honored to call him a friend.
Dick Posner, rest in peace.
(I'll have much more to say about Judge Posner in a future post.)
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Sean retweeted
For @ringer, I wrote about Bob Windrem aka @NetsDaily, the 81-year-old former NBC newsman who is also the internet’s most prominent and prolific Nets blogger theringer.com/2026/11/11/nba…
NYC lottery system for high school is a valiant attempt to inject more equity into the system. What it also does is make a certain type of parent feel like if they’re child doesn’t get into a top school it is somehow their fault.
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Hello to all my soon to be ex followers. This account isn’t really about NYC student commute times, but maybe it should be.
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Is my most popular tweet ever gonna be an off hand comment on school commute times?
Someone should write an article on high school kids in NYC and their insane commutes. I've spoken to kids commuting two hours both ways everyday. One kid at the Tech open house told me he comes to Brooklyn from "past Flushing". Mind blowing.
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Sean retweeted
I think unusually productive friendships and deep, long-lasting creative partnerships are under-theorized. I’d really like to better understand the alchemy that produces a Warren/Charlie, Jobs/Wozniak, Caro/Gottlieb, Will/Ariel Durant, and so on.
Sean retweeted
Teens are back!
U.S. teens saw notable declines in self-reported sadness and suicidal ideation from 2021 to 2025.
Relative to 2021, they were also more likely in 2025 to:
1) play sports (49% to 58%)
2) do strength training (45% to 51%)
2) eat fruit >=twice/day (19% to 28%)
3) eat at least one vegetable/day (55% to 63%)
Sean retweeted
I will never tire of stressing just how philosophically rich science fiction is as a genre. It truly is—in a description commonly attributed to Pamela Sargent, but also found in Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Gene Wolfe among others—“the literature of ideas.”
Sean retweeted
My letter in today's @NYTimes boils down to:
Maybe what kids really need is not more $ for mental health interventions but more independence and free play.
At least try that FIRST.
nytimes.com/2026/11/07/opini…
Sean retweeted
U.S. teens saw notable declines in self-reported sadness and suicidal ideation from 2021 to 2025.
Relative to 2021, they were also more likely in 2025 to:
1) play sports (49% to 58%)
2) do strength training (45% to 51%)
2) eat fruit >=twice/day (19% to 28%)
3) eat at least one vegetable/day (55% to 63%)
I think about this quote all the time:
"There is always time to do more, most people, even the productive, have a day that is at least forty percent slack." - @tylercowen
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Sean retweeted
reminding everyone that Mississippi is one of the best states in the country at teaching kids to read and the rest of us should be taking notes
Because we live in NYC we are doing the most insane high school tour circuit and every single school touts how many APs they offer and how many kids take them. My wife was suspicious, turns out that as usual, she was right.
