I’m writing from chicago the place it’s snowing, and the place I’ve spent the previous few days celebrating thanksgiving with my sisters household, in addition to my mom. It was a calming vacation, and far wanted. I’ve beloved being right here, sleeping so much, consuming a bit of, and seeing everybody, however I’m able to go dwelling. And for now Boston is my dwelling.
We’ve got two extra workshops this semester at mixtape periods. The primary is my very own workshop on artificial management which is subsequent Saturday and Sunday December 6-7. This may wrap up my very own workshops this fall. It’s an important alternative in my view to study extra about panel strategies, in addition to the ever evolving panorama of causal inference and artificial controls particularly. I’ll cowl Abadie’s unique methodology, however I’ll additionally cowl a number of the new supplies coping with imbalance and poor match, bias adjustment strategies, in addition to differential timing and artificial diff in diff. I feel it’s alternative to proceed investing in ones human capital, so come test it out.
The opposite workshop is the “hidden curriculum” workshop by Mark Anderson and Dan Rees. That has been an more and more widespread workshop for college kids and college alike seeking to study extra concerning the paths to getting concepts for analysis, for a job, for tenure, and for publishing. Mark will now be instructing that once more on the westerns as a part of their persevering with training supplies for younger professionals, however when you can’t make that, come to ours!
Altogether it’s been an extended yr. Summer time of workshops once more throughout Europe, got here to Boston to show a big sized class on quant strategies at Harvard, and the passing of my 83yo father, who had been in gradual decline from Parkinson’s illness for a few years. I completed the second version of the mixtape, which shall be referred to as the remix, obtained a pair publications, and have become an Amazon marketing consultant. The podcast handed 130 episodes in some unspecified time in the future and round 260,000 downloads in keeping with substack metrics. I’ve a number of extra episodes I’m engaged on for the time being.
Sooner or later, I’ll write about what I realized this semester at Harvard. However in all probability not for some time. It looks like there’s not but lots of perception to be shared as I’m nonetheless processing all of it. Educating a category this massive in a spot so novel and distinctive and completely different from my experiences has been an actual problem, and I’m grateful day-after-day for it.
However now I’m heading out. I’m hoping the snowfall right here gained’t impede my journey again to again bay. I hope all of us get dwelling safely.
