2. Yuen Yuen Ang on adaptive political economy.
3. A resurgence of popular deities in Taiwan? (NYT)
4. Benjamin Yeoh Podcast with Henry Oliver on Late Bloomers. And a tweet: “Khomeini was such a strange man in his time. He didn’t get involved in politics until he was 61 and didn’t lead a revolution until he was 76. On the other hand, Lenin was 47 years old, Hitler 34 years old, Atatürk 38 years old, Mao 34 years old, Mussolini 39 years old, Ho Chi Minh 55 years old and Gaddafi. 27 when they launched their revolutions.
5. Soumaya Keynes on working from home: “While men spend more of their saved time on daily trips to care for children and exercise outdoors, women spend more of their saved time on household chores .” (FT)
6. The modern Manhattan Project?: “Meta spent almost as much as the Manhattan Project on GPUs in today’s dollars.”