"Det har jag aldrig provat förut, så det klarar jag helt säkert!" - Pippi Långstrump
About Me
I’d rather be a little mysterious about personal history and putting on the internet things that someone could use to answer security questions, but I’m friendly!
Send me an email and say hi if you’re so inclined.
Instead, how about some recommendations of things that I think make the world a wonderful place.
On the internet
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If you feel fondness towards modern-day dinosaurs and appreciate quirkiness, you might enjoy Rosemary Mosco’s monthly bird newsletter.
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R got you down? Or are you an instructor teaching data/R and you are seeking an excuse to procrastinate with funny pictures that may make their way into your lectures? Then check out Allison Horst’s artwork
Books
Fiction
- If you like a rollicking good time, check out Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett.
Nonfiction
- Rosemary Mosco’s A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching is a gem. Guaranteed to make you the person people don’t know how to respond to at parties!
Espanish
- Diana Uribe’s La Historia del Mundo is a delightfully woven series. The way she uses the word papayazo embodies all that delights me about Colombian Spanish.
Francais
- Le Monde Diplomatique is my favorite media subscription. They write perspectives you just don’t get in the States often, and the audio version is a pleasure on the ear.
Swedish
- Don’t look at me for recommendations for things in Swedish! If you’d be able to read or understand it, you know the media environment better than me!
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- Okay, I lied. Miriam Bryant is an amazing singer. She’s got some stuff in English, too.
Chinese
- Seriously, no, seriously, Zhuangzi. I need to find a good translation of this quirky Daoist genius, but he’s so much fun and his stuff is so weird and thought-provoking.
Learning Resources
Math
- Joseph Blitzstein’s Statistics 110: Probability. I wish I’d discovered this a decade ago. He’s so good. The textbook is free online, the lectures are delightful, and there are even some solutions in the textbook so you can make your own problem sets.
Math Camp for Economists
- U Arizona’s Math Camp. I wish someone had told me to go through this in the June before starting the PhD.