What I’m doing now

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

Updated July 16, 2026, at 10:41 PM from Wellington. I have been burning the midnight oil. Tyler is right: we will need to work harder in the short run.

I’m working for the Treasury

…on a few different perennial challenges and one big burgeoning challenge. The challenge.

I’m reading Daniel and Robert Wright’s The Moral Animal

…and continuing to do my homework (reading the papers needed to understand the economics of AI).

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

—Jesús Fernández-Villaverde

My streak of not reading novels is up to 5 weeks and it’s not good for me. Isaiah and Daniel helped a little.

Also reading Wright (well, listening using an Unreal speech engine because I couldn’t find an audiobook on Spotify). In my philosophy reading group we’re exploring biology’s influence on philosophy. We started out with Dawkins, of course, and while the provisional plan was to gnaw on the ontology of evolutionary thinking, we’re digressing into the social science stuff because it was a controversial area in our discourse and we want to feel it out.

Working through two textbooks: Statistical Rethinking and Chicago Price Theory

Continuing to work through CPT, but I’m stalled on SR.

I’m still training BJJ, after a fashion

After a long day reading papers and staring at computer screens, BJJ is the antidote: the post-meat-sandwich pickle.