#AcademicRunPlaylist - 8/18/24

Well, it's finally happened - I have zeroed out my Watch Later playlist for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! Moving forward in addition to new talks or newly discovered channels, I'll also be adding academic audiobooks to my repertoire - more on those soon. But there might be some days with no posts since books are longer than single talks!

If you want to view my ENTIRE playlist (only started logging them here in late 2022), you can see them here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5FQGISvWBK3gNFqx2eboI8etItUC2MFW&si=PcHsSFLZB7afl9Hh

As for today, I was still able to get the remaining talks in!

First was a fascinating talk by Michael Weatherburn on work motivation experiments at the Interwar Cocoa Works (!) at the University of London School of Advanced Study. This foray into "scientific" management highlights the truly absurd degree management can go in trying to quantify work as well as the issue with assuming that measurement can be objective or all-encompassing. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOGmPrsADKQ

Next was an engaging panel on CEO succession planning at the Stanford Law School with David Larcker, Homa Bahrami, Brad Buss, Scott D. Saslow, and John Thompson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ2X2AYQKHw

Next was an excellent talk by Thomas Piketty on his book "Capital in the 21st Century" at the LSE. Piketty gives a great overview of the work in his book, and if you haven't heard him speak on this before I highly recommend this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXYIYDnuSXo

Next was, appropriately, a panel on Piketty's book at the Cornell University ILR School with Ed Baptist, Robert Frank, and Aziz Rana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkaCp7eecHk

Last was a great talk by Aran Nayebi on task-optimized models of the brain at the Machine Learning Department at CMU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE5wRn9Rwgo