👋 ASB Partners Nuggets 8.29.25

This is a short weekly email that covers a few things I’ve found interesting during the week.

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Interesting Links/Reads

Many links are sourced from Marginal Revolution (bold and italics are my own to highlight what I found particularly interesting)

1. "Marrying a cousin leads to more than a two-year reduction in age-five life expectancy, compounding the documented early-life effects."

2. Woodcoin: an attempt at a physical cryptocurrency?

3. South Korea deploys hologram police officer to fight crime – and it’s working Since its installation in a Seoul park, crimes reported during the hours the hologram is active have gone down by about 22 per cent, data shows

   

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Podcast/Videos

👇Very interesting…lots of wisdom about optimizing work/life

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I think that 90 percent of academic papers would work perfectly fine as blog posts. Including the tone of like, “Okay, I ran some regressions” instead of having Greek symbols and things like that, and the pretense of all of it.

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I hope you enjoyed it.

Adam