What I’m doing now

(This is a now page. If you have your own site, you should make one too.)

Updated June 6, 2026, from Wellington, where we can feel the solstice drawing nearer. T is watching bad TV and crocheting a toy for a friend’s baby.

I graduated with my Honours degree

…last month.

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Working for the Treasury

…on a few different perennial challenges.

I’m reading Isaiah and Vaclav Smil’s Growth

..and lots of microecon papers related to AI.

Two things are important right now in life: deep learning and fertility. Everything else is noise.

—Jesús Fernández-Villaverde

I haven’t read a novel in a few weeks and it kind of sucks. Reading just nonfiction is so boring. I don’t know how people do this.

Exploring biology’s influence on philosophy

…in my philosophy reading group. Starting out with Dawkins, the provisional plan is to move onto Robert Trivers, Robert Frank, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Lewontin.

Working through two textbooks: Statistical Rethinking and Chicago Price Theory

Re price theory: I was inspired by this post.

I’m still training BJJ after a fashion

Still stumbling along.