Every summer, I spend a month in the lovely town of Manipal. We hold a summer camp there that is very close to my heart, and this summer will be no different.

It is a lovely way to spend the summer: kids with insatiable curiosity, taught by faculty with inexhaustible enthusiasm over three weeks. No exams at the end of the process, so students ch...

I hope you have a coping mechanism for the times we’re living in.

You know what I mean, right? When you’re done thinking about AI, Donald, your own country’s politics, and anything else that you choose to tax your brain about, you should do something that allows you to switch off. I’m talking about that coping mechanism.

Mine is watching old episodes of QI. QI is ...

Anthropic released the latest edition of their Economic Index this week. This is a report that tracks how Claude is being used across the global economy. This is the third such report, covering a sample from early February 2026. You can

Yesterday I wrote a post about Tyler Cowen’s argument that the research paper is dying in economics. That post was a collaboration between me and Claude. I wrote it, to be clear. But Claude helped me build an outline for it after a lengthy conversa...

Tyler Cowen asks when the research paper will disappear in economics. Think about it, he says: AI can now generate, evaluate, and improve papers. Ergo, the paper is no longer the scarce unit of intellectua...