Stuff I've found interesting in November

1. Nasubi - a life of prizes. Documents a man who enters a Japanese game show that requires him to live alone for over a year, living only off what he can win from competitions in magazines.

2. A study on what happens when jobs at elite banks and consulting firms disappear - the people who would have gone on to join those banks and firms become entrepreneurs instead, and they’re pretty successful!

3. This great book on CRISPR - Walter Isaacson is a wonderful biographer and this book has a lot of fun stuff in it - moral questions around genetic engineering, a Chinese scientist who genetically engineered kids without asking permission, and a crazy biohacker who tried to edit his own genes.

4. This nice article about the two women who come up with generic drug names.

5. A Marginal Revolution post (mainly with other links) about how concerned we should be about the Omicron variant.

6. A great podcast episode with Tyler Cowen, discussing how he is so productive and original (I’m a sucker for anything that goe…