A Snail’s Tempo — Confessions of a Provide-Facet Liberal


It has been 12 years since my first weblog submit: What’s a Provide-Facet Liberal? I’ve written an anniversary submit yearly since:

  1. A 12 months within the Lifetime of a Provide-Facet Liberal

  2. Three Revolutions

  3. Beacons

  4. Why I Weblog

  5. My Goal Operate

  6. A Barycentric Autobiography

  7. Crafting Easy, Correct Messages about Advanced Issues

  8. On Human Potential

  9. Pandemic Passage: My Previous 12 Months in Running a blog

  10. All the pieces is Altering

  11. A Lull

As a result of our analysis workforce making an attempt to result in nationwide well-being indexes that may stand as coequals with GDP has been at a crucial and extremely engrossing stage now for a number of years, I’ve tended to think about this weblog as on hiatus. However as I look extra intently, I see that my weblog output shouldn’t be zero; it’s merely advancing at a snail’s tempo.

In my very own view, my most vital submit prior to now yr is A Tweetstorm on Imperfect Data Processing.” Then there are a number of vital items in video kind:

There may be one little bit of PR for our work on well-being indexes:

Then I study one thing about myself from what I ended up writing about. Although I’m in a interval of reevaluation of what I consider, I proceed to be very all for weight-reduction plan and well being. In any case, I no less than have to determine what to do myself, and may as effectively maintain some report of issues I study and take into consideration right here on this weblog. Here’s what I’ve written prior to now yr on weight-reduction plan and well being:

I educate about statistical identification in my “Ethics, Happiness and Selection” class on the College of Colorado Boulder. (You possibly can see hyperlinks to all of my course web sites for those who click on the “Assets” button on the high of the web page.) So I’m all the time looking out for good examples to make use of. Right here is one I discovered this previous yr:

For my courses usually, I’ve a bibiographic submit underneath building: “Posts Helpful for Instructing.” You may see one thing there.

I proceed to be very all for US Supreme Court docket choices, partly as a result of I come from a household of attorneys. (My Dad, my uncle Spencer Levan Kimball and my brother Chris have been all regulation professors.) The present revolution in constitutional and statutory interpretation is fascinating to me. Listed here are two posts I wrote:

It’s good to be fortified by tales of how good concepts typically meet preliminary resistance. So I needed to maintain maintain of this story:

And there are numerous different helpful issues I needed to maintain observe of; I used hyperlink posts as a few of our forebears used commonplace books. You possibly can web page all the way down to see these linkposts. I gained’t attempt to repeat them right here.

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