Yesterday morning I went to a breakfast seminar about AI and the future of work at Segerstedthuset. It ended up being a great discussion that went off the rails of the original ‘plan’ in a way that felt interesting and productive. My hasty notes are below.

The other day I found out that you can watch YouTube in Albania without ads. Personally I pay for YouTube and I think it is worth while, but I found that curious. Reasons might be that Google has no advertisement contracts in the country or it may just be too small a market to matter […]

My final 15-minute presentation for the Frontiers in Life Sciences course I’m taking is this evening, so I’ve been finishing up my slides and doing some runthroughs. Below is a practice recording of what I intend to present.

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics for their work in the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction. Today, a friend and I went to see Philippe Aghion speak about this work at Ekonomikum in Uppsala. The lectures are organized every year by the university and are open to the public, with no pre-registration. My rough notes are below [L: As usual, my own comments are embedded like this.].

I’ve been in a kind of hyper-busy mode before Christmas. Mostly that has translated into work, but there are also quite a few other things happening.