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  • bad to talk too much about yourself good to show interest in other people’s hobbies, problems, and interests important to pay attention to body language my job to make sure that whatever social situation we were in was a delightful experience for everyone involved
    the best way to please is not to please - by Ava
  • People who constantly externalize conflict or externalize badly can be exhausting to be around for this reason; it’s tiring to always be in explicit conflict with them.
    some thoughts on conflict - by Ava - bookbear express
  • I’m coming around to believe that the best way to handle conflict is to externalize quickly but tactfully.
    some thoughts on conflict - by Ava - bookbear express
  • Assuming that someone else can’t handle something is almost always a substitute for I don’t feel like handling it.
    some thoughts on conflict - by Ava - bookbear express
  • The main reason to make conflict explicit is that if you don’t it’s nearly impossible to resolve it. Maybe if I ignore it it will go away tends to not work that well in my experience.
    some thoughts on conflict - by Ava - bookbear express
  • The bottom line: Once you stop living inside a fantasy of what a relationship ‘should’ be, and start working with what that relationship actually is, you’ll find it easier to put it in the proper place in your life
    Managing Your Expectations of Friends
  • You can accept and love and treasure these people without making their actions into moral failures.
    Managing Your Expectations of Friends
  • If you want to feel better about a friend who doesn’t prioritize you as highly as you do them, pay closer attention to the layers there. Does this person need more alone time? Does she need slightly less intense friendships in order to feel her lighter side more often? Is she getting what she needs from her relationship with you? Are you getting your needs met? Is it possible to talk freely about what you like and need, and what different shape your friendship could take? Could you ask about the ideal interval between seeing each other? What if this person is just careless with your feelings, …
    Managing Your Expectations of Friends
  • But all relationships are asymmetrical. There are layers, and not every layer matches. We give more in some areas than our friends do, and less in others. This is natural and acceptable.
    Managing Your Expectations of Friends
  • But the more calm and forgiving you become about your own tidal wave of shame, the more forgiving you’ll be with others. You’ll see reality more clearly. Instead of living in a fantasy world where everyone is supposed to give love equally because they have the same exact priorities as you do, you’ll start to accept that mismatched efforts are inevitable and even acceptable.
    Managing Your Expectations of Friends
  • Do you interpret other people’s actions through a dirty windshield of shame? Do you tend to draw big conclusions from small actions? Can you translate a hasty text into a thesis about how no one is really, truly there for you as a friend? Do you tend to assume, without really understanding it consciously, that certain friends should prioritize you as highly as you prioritize them, no matter what else is happening in their lives?
    Managing Your Expectations of Friends
  • Many people don’t speak directly when they have a problem, or their shame gives their words an edge of anger or contempt that’s hard for others to process. Many people avoid conflict for a good reason, too: Our culture is conflict-averse. Whatever calamities occur, if you’re not chill about it, people tend to back away.
    Managing Your Expectations of Friends
  • Oddly enough, the more friendships you’ve lost, the more you’ll start to sound like your common-wisdom-spouting cohorts: Friendships should be simple and easy! Friends will not be there for you like family will! Friends come and go! Or worst of all: Make new friends and keep the old, one is silver and the other’s gold! If sitting in a big pile of silver and gold is this confusing, I can see why wealthy people go out of their minds so regularly. *
    Managing Your Expectations of Friends
  • OBSERVE. Watch how you freak out. Notice when you feel shitty. Pay attention to the ways you resist reality. Question your bad stories about the friend. And remind yourself:
    'I Expect Too Much From My Friends!'
  • The best, most generous people I know have a very strong ability to trust their own priorities and make themselves happy. And when you say to them, “I want you to come to my party” they might say directly, “I want to be able to give you this, but I know the party will make me unhappy right now, so I will not be coming to the party.”
    'I Expect Too Much From My Friends!'
  • You can’t solve friendship troubles in a state of self-hating stress. You have to start from a place of forgiveness. You have to recognize that these are deep, important feelings that spread out in every direction and apply to a lot more than friendship. All of the work you do here will benefit you in other areas of your life.
    'I Expect Too Much From My Friends!'
  • are less about not loving yourself enough and more about encountering love and companionship as inherently uncertain and untrustworthy.
    'I Expect Too Much From My Friends!'
  • nxiously attached people, at their worst, are emotional control freaks. They can’t just let other people live the way they want to live. They see independence as a problem, and crave reassurance whenever anyone shows signs of having a busy life without them. If they can’t figure out how to get that reassurance, they start to fixate and feel helpless.
    'I Expect Too Much From My Friends!'
  • To your question, though, Noah Smith is among the most academic of popularizers. He frequently uses jargon that I don't understand (due to being in a different specialty). He reads the literature and wants to be very close to it. And his work is generally aligns with an academic consensus, as far as I know. If you want something more explicitly US bi-partisan, I suppose you could look at the newsletters of the Brookings Institute. I think that think tank, while having right leaning origins, has as a stated goal to be bi-partisan and seems to do a good job without becoming annoyingly "both-side…
    What does the field of economics think of Noah Smith? : r/AskEconomics
  • Also, I had a thought about the perspective of the professor you mentioned. If Smith wrote mostly in health economics rather than macro, I too might have thoughts that I'd hesitate to share. For a comparison, if a student brought me an article criticizing mainstream health economics by Scott Atlas (a politically right wing Hoover Institute medical doctor who writes about the ACA and Covid policy and was an advisor to President Trump and who I used to use in class to present a populist view to opposed to left health policy proposals), I would be pretty grumpy. FWIW, I feel comparing Smith to At…
    What does the field of economics think of Noah Smith? : r/AskEconomics
  • Families with workplace health insurance may have missed out on $125,000 in earnings over the past three decades as a result of rising premiums eating into their pay, according to a new JAMA Network Open study.
    Axios Vitals 6/24/2024
  • Medical societies and governments have been revising postpartum care guidelines, calling for more care and better insurance coverage.
    Axios Vitals 6/24/2024
  • t’s difficult not to be roused by Clark’s stylish narrative of this intoxicating opening phase. In the insurgent cities, provisional authorities formed in the offices of major newspapers, new Cabinets nominated by their editors and writers. In Paris, the staff of the liberal Le National joined with the more radical La Réforme to decide the immediate future of the country. From these interim bodies came a spree of diets, radas, national assemblies, and Reichstags—popular parliamentary bodies which, though still not decided by a truly universal franchise, represented a vast expansion of democrac…
    The 1848 Revolutions Did Not Fail | The New Republic
  • he command centre at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has made transferring patients between locations 60% faster, cut the waiting times for emergency treatment by 25% and reduced the time in post-surgical beds by 70%. Tampa General Hospital has reported a gain in efficiency worth $40m since launching a command centre using 20 ai applications.
    Can artificial intelligence make health care more efficient?
  • America’s labyrinthine health-industrial complex consumes 17% of gdp, equivalent to $3.6trn a year.
    Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health care
  • t governs how states, companies and individuals access capital, which determines their prospects for growth and prosperity. Its payment systems are vital to commerce. And it allows a vastly broader pool of people to share in the world’s wealth creation than otherwise could. At its best, the system has kept rivals close. Begin, then, with the forces that are driving them apart. ■
    The global financial system is in danger of fragmenting
  • Poor countries are also beginning to build vital financial infrastructure of their own, as new national payment systems come online. Owing to the competitive threat these pose, incumbents are upgrading clunky digital architecture and racing to lower costs.
    The global financial system is in danger of fragmenting
  • Free capital flows give investors more opportunities and firms more funding sources. What is more, the reversal of these flows amid geopolitical strife can cause all manner of problems.
    How crises reshaped the world financial system
  • Sequoia, one of the world’s most successful venture-capital outfits, announced last June that it would split into separate American, Chinese and Indian businesses.
    How crises reshaped the world financial system
  • n executive order signed last August directs the Treasury to vet investments in “sensitive technologies” (meaning advanced chips, quantum computing and artificial intelligence) in “countries of concern” (meaning China).
    How crises reshaped the world financial system
  • South-East Asian capital controls have helped stave off instability caused by volatile inflows and forced domestic markets to mature, providing a natural source of patient capital for the region’s fast-growing firms. And they have done so without cutting the region off from international finance.
    How crises reshaped the world financial system
  • nscathed, governments started issuing big tranches of sovereign debt in their own currencies rather than in dollars. Now, says Mr Lee, bonds issued by Asian firms tend to be bought up regionally, as deep-pocketed domestic investors outbid counterparts in London and New York.
    How crises reshaped the world financial system
  • n the region began to impose more controls on inbound investment. This limited firms’ access to capital, and hence their growth, but also prevented similar vulnerabilities from building up again. At the same time, notes Art Karoonyavanich, also of dbs, Asian governments were busy privatising and listing state-owned firms.
    How crises reshaped the world financial system
  • hat alone would have been enough to send highly leveraged firms into distress or bankruptcy. But then global investors fled the region en masse, pulling out of positions indiscriminately. The result was a funding crisis in which short-term foreign debt could not be rolled over, leading to more defaults and the deepening of a multi-country economic slump.
    How crises reshaped the world financial system
  • . This ability to share “without exertion or even trouble” in the world’s wealth creation was part of “this economic Eldorado…this economic Utopia” in which Keynes had come of age—and which had been shattered by the war that broke out in 1914.
    How crises reshaped the world financial system
  • The wto was accused of ignoring China’s distortive trade practices, and Mr Trump blocked new appointments to the wto’s dispute-settlement committee, in effect defanging the organisation (a practice that Mr Biden has continued). All the while new ftas have become rarer, with just three signed in 2023.
    Rumours of the trade deal’s death are greatly exaggerated
  • Isn’t it funny to think that our friends have loved us through every version of ourselves?
    friendships in your 20s - by tina zhang - digital tinz
  • People will advise you to do what they did. College drop outs will advise you to skip your Bachelor’s, PhD drop outs like me will advise you to skip your dissertation. Take in the advice and normalize for this bias.
    Advice for Early Career — Celine Halioua
  • 1. Listen to the Gentiles 2. Question the question 3. Dare to be silly 4. Simplify, simplify
    princeton.edu/~pkrugman/howiwork.html
  • Run essays through Grammarly before you publish them.
    101 things I would tell my self from 10 years ago
  • Try to make ambitious and smart friends who do cool things. The best way to do so is to be smart and ambitious yourself, and do cool things.
    101 things I would tell my self from 10 years ago
  • Start trying to understand the world through Fermi calculations. Memorize important numbers. This is an extremely useful sk
    101 things I would tell my self from 10 years ago
  • It is not bad to be in a transactional relationship as long as you get something out of it.
    101 things I would tell my self from 10 years ago
  • Financing. Medicare funding, which totaled $989 billion in 2022, comes primarily from general revenues (43%), payroll tax revenues (36%), and premiums paid by beneficiaries (16%). Other sources include taxes on Social Security benefits, payments from states, and interest.
    How Much Does Medicare Spend and How Is the Program Financed? - Medicare 101 | KFF
  • . In 2023, just over half of all Medicare program spending for Part A and Part B benefits was for Medicare Advantage plans, up from just under 30% in 2013. Between 2023 and 2033, Medicare Advantage payments are projected to total nearly $8 trillion, $2 trillion more than spending under traditional Medicare (Figure 19).
    How Much Does Medicare Spend and How Is the Program Financed? - Medicare 101 | KFF
  • Part B benefits (including physician services, outpatient services, and physician-administered drugs
    How Much Does Medicare Spend and How Is the Program Financed? - Medicare 101 | KFF
  • In 2023, Medicare benefit payments are estimated to total $1 trillion, up from $583 billion in 2013 (including spending for Part A, Part B, and Part D benefits in both traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage).
    How Much Does Medicare Spend and How Is the Program Financed? - Medicare 101 | KFF
  • A notable example of an alternative payment model within Medicare is the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), a
    What Is Medicare Doing to Promote Alternative Payment Models? - Medicare 101 | KFF
  • The bid is compared to a county “benchmark”, which is the maximum amount the federal government will pay for a Medicare Advantage enrollee and is a percentage of estimated spending in traditional Medicare in the same county, ranging from 95 percent in high-cost counties to 115 percent in low-cost counties. When the bid is below the benchmark in a given county, plans receive a portion of the difference (“the rebate”), which
    How Does Medicare Pay Private Plans in Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D? - Medicare 101 | KFF
  • The bid is compared to a county “benchmark”, which is the maximum amount the federal government will pay for a Medicare Advantage enrollee and is a percentage of estimated spending in traditional Medicare in the same county, ranging from 95 percent in high-cost counties to 115 percent in low-cost counties.
    How Does Medicare Pay Hospitals, Physicians, and Other Providers in Traditional Medicare? - Medicare 101 | KFF