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Creative destruction
This year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt for their work demonstrating “how new technology can drive sustained growth.” Taking it as a recommendation, I decided to explore the subject further and picked up “The Power of Creative Destruction Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations” by Aghion, Antonin, and Bunel (2021).
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Against elections
“It would appear that people like the idea of democracy but not the reality of it”, here is a recent survey on satisfaction with democracy. I’m not an exception. There is something wrong with democracy going on isn’t it? The provocative title of the book “Against Elections: The Case For Democracy” should trigger some questions. Is the author insane - what he suggests, no elections, why should I read that even?
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Power and Progress
It’s common knowledge that computers have significantly increased our productivity, right? There’s no doubt it’s much faster to calculate accounting data in Excel than by hand. Now, with AI agents all around us, our productivity is set to skyrocket, isn’t it?
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Emotional bias
This text is about emotional bias, a bit of data analysis and reflections on my past studies.
What do you see on the graph above? Well, first you need a context. While I was studying my economics degree Telegram was my main communication tool. Teams in office during the day and telegram all other time. We have org chat for the all students, for particular subject, sometimes for specific projects and for sure with some co-students. Above is a chat with my uni-partner, Yulia with whom I chatted and talked mostly. Yulia lives in Ufa and she is an Associate Professor in Ufa’s University. Due to various reasons we started to chat at the beginning and then we worked together on many projects along our study and finally we did together the Master Thesis. This chart shows number of our messages per week.