The train down to NYC took twice as long as normal, but eventually I made it! As you might expect, I used the extra time to listen to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a great talk by Min Kyung Lee on participatory approaches for worker-centric algorithmic management at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5msF34Q8yTU

Next was an interesting talk by Dirk Zetzsche on defining an EU impact investing framework at the Cambridge Faculty of Law https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukM-T3ozLpg

Next was an engaging panel on AI in Africa at the Africa Tech Summit with John Lazar, Rawan Dareer, Ambassador Philip Thigo, MBS, Richard Muthua, and Mike Mompi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgzJ6iyMXT8

Next was an intriguing talk by Nick Bloom detailing C-suite survey results on past productivity gains from generative AI deployment (tldr; basically 0) and future guesses about impacts (which I'm not sure why you would trust these) at the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYUBRvzD8vo

Last was "Wine Economics" by Stefano Castriota. I'll be honest - I'm not much of a wine drinker. Rather, I read this book because I wanted to learn more about how the industry developed and evolved over time. Unfortunately for me there's little of that here - instead it's a rigorous summary of the current structure of the industry and its effects. Diving this deep into a food product market is an anomaly for me, but seeing the complexity in production in this long-running agricultural product shows how subtle changes in market dynamics can lead to dramatic differences in effective management practices https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044677/wine-economics/