I've gotten off to a running start at Revelio Labs (see what I did there?), but I still made some time to go out for a more physical run and listen to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a great talk by Cornelia Woll on the ethics of capitalism at the Watson School of International and Public Affairs at Brown University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUs9fPb88NQ

Next was a thought-provoking talk by Maria-Florina Balcan on the foundations of learning complex objects in large models at UC Berkeley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtDsYDR5GLU

Next was a compelling talk by Enrique Prieto-Rios on feminism and international investment at the Boston University School of Law https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bj2fmPm274

Next was an engaging panel on the latest US labor developments at Power At Work with Seth Harris, Ali Bustamante, McKenna Schueler, and Ruben J. Garcia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vizjliyzUu4

Next was an excellent talk by Woody Hartzog and Jessica Silbey on how generative AI destroys institutions (!) at the BU school of law https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5-Tyb_HIbs

Last was "The Forgotten Japanese" by Tsuneichi Miyamoto. I listened to the Japanese audiobook version, which if you speak the language I highly recommend for the amazing voices the narrator uses throughout the book. Miyamoto provides a possibly never-to-be-repeated ethnography of people whose lives span an almost unimaginable divide - growing up in the dawn of the Meiji era in rural towns in islands with a way of life that is extremely similar to that from the 1600s, these communities were gradually connected and then incorporated into the world of the industrialized 20th century. Changes around work, child rearing, marriage, socialization, education, and more are covered here through fascinating interviews combined with high level commentary from Miyamoto. I do wish there was a bit more macro context for these discussions, but given the paucity of data in the period covered in these geographies that's probably impossible. For me the Japanese vocabulary was challenging given its now archaic nature, but the book helpfully provides updated terminology throughout (at least updated as of the 1950s). Highly recommend https://www.stonebridge.com/catalog/the-forgotten-japanese