(1) Meta and Google have seen their growth slow (not shrink) because they reach virtually the entirety of the online population, especially in the US. Meanwhile their time spent metrics continue to rise.

(2) Reddit is called out as a modest grower but its usage has more than doubled in the US since 2021 from 90M to 170M (according to emarketer).

Doenst mean the conclusions are wrong (i agree with it on polarization) but the growth measures seem to not reflect reality.

The Physician https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4692.The_Physician

Soumission https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23929479-soumission

Is there something that might cause some popular books to not show?

This type of culture war bait is a little lame though. Its even more lame that he isnt welcome in certain bookstores for some reason. His book is still going to sell great and its those bookstores loss for not seeing his value.

I'd love to hear alternative GOATs.

I used to enjoy Terry Gross and many other interviewers, but Tyler Cowen just blows past everyone by getting so much deeper so much faster than anyone else.

You can tell that the interviewers are often relieved to finally get asked real questions. Some people are put off by his style but I find it exhilarating.

I've had many family members refer to having long covid because they had a persistent stuffy nose for a few months. Prob virus related to some degree but the looseness of the language makes invites skepticism.

Also some people also love being very vocal about any possible pathology they might have as a political position. Just invites more skepticism.

I am $50MM+/year spender on Meta ads and while I know that ad load is up I don't think its up that much where ads run alongside each other.

If you can show me evidence of this I will make a big fucking deal of this to Meta.

I don't know how phizer/moderna/etc balance needs to develop different drugs against all possible variants but I expect that once a strong variant emerges they are well incentivized (financially and culturally) to scale up development against it.

The real surprise is how slowly our social and political institutions respond, not our pharma institutions.

I was sold a vaccine that limited hospitalization and death and we have three vaccines that all do this, frankly, miraculously.

I wasn't sold a prophylactic sunscreen that prevented infection of coming into my body. I was sold an immune response that made my body more resilient to it. I have not seen any evidence that this is waning over time.

Now, delta is a new variant of the disease that wasn’t the subject of the original vaccine study so why should this now old 2020 vaccine be as effective against this new 2021 variant? It shouldn’t be but considering the vaccines effectiveness at preventing hospitalization and death against the new variation that it wasn’t even built to combat its actually OVERDELIVERING against its goals. Another miracle

So maybe that requires adjustments to the vaccine, perhaps on an annual cadence like the flu vaccine. Frankly I am fine with that.

I am disappointed that the vaccines don’t do more to dampen the spread of the disease but considering how defeatable the worst cases are with now multiple vaccine options I am highly confident that our deservedly well paid scientists and pharma companies can keep the progress flowing here and continue to improve over time.

Stock prices reflect the fact that some elements of our economy are very resiliant, including demand, despite major disruptions. Would a crashing stock market have been better news?

Housing market is definitely a mess though but that has less to do with speculation and more to do with significant constraints in supply, especially in our largest and fastest growing cities. More people want to live in most of these cities (because cities are still generally well functioning and important labor markets) than they can house. We can and should build significantly more housing and make a major boom in more construction in our major cities and that would make the speculation in other parts of the market make more sense. Without building then we are walking down a difficult path.