It’s (US) Election Day! If you are an American citizen, go vote! But also: even on Election Day, there are links.
This week in In Development Magazine, Akhil Bansal and Georgia Bradley argue that now-cheap GLP-1 injector pens can improve emergency medicine by making medicines easier to use in the field.
Also, we launched an essay contest with Asterisk Magazine about how AI will affect developing countries!
The grand prize is $10k; runners up get $5k; honorable mentions, $2k.
We have an all-star judging panel including Rose M. Mutiso, Shahrukh Wani, Oliver Hanney, Joseph Levine, Deena Mousa, Clara Collier, and Rafael Cariello.
I asked Claude in incognito mode and it said entering was worthwhile because “even an essay that doesn’t win gets read by people who fund and hire in this field.”
Someone managed to randomize sermon content in Pakistan for their JMP????
I have been thinking about this harrisonwmoore piece about the similarities between Donald Trump and Jed Bartlet since I read it. Thanks, I hate it.
Caleb Watney thinks you should quit your job and move to DC.
Todd Moss on how to give policy advice is self-recommending, but this piece is especially worthwhile for this quote:
Telling an insomniac to get more sleep is infuriating for them. They will likely think you’re an idiot. They know they need more sleep. They just don’t know how.
In the same vein, so much advice tells a policy maker to do X when X is functionally impossible. And if you don’t have the context or experience to know that X is impossible, then you probably have no business giving advice in the first place.
Can cattle ranching be securities fraud? Abby ShalekBriski explains in the Washington Post.
An interesting take on taste:
I’ve noticed a lot of people underestimate their own taste, because they expect having good taste to feel like being very smart or competent or good at things. Unfortunately, I am here to tell you that, at least if you are similar to me, you will never feel smart, competent, or good at things; instead, you will just start feeling more and more like everyone else mysteriously sucks at them.
For this reason, the prompt I suggest here is: what does it seem like everyone else is mysteriously bad at? That’s probably a sign that you have good taste there.1
Middle English had a specific insult for someone with a cold: snivelard.
The Pope makes jokes? I didn’t know the Pope was allowed to make jokes.
Unfortunately, the first thing that comes to mind is “finding reasonably priced but nice hotels”, so I look forward to my future career as a… travel agent?