I had a pretty busy day, but while commuting around Tokyo I listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a great panel on the latest in US labor news at Power at Work with Seth Harris, Aaron Sojourner, and Bill Samuel https://youtu.be/uCm_fxXyngs?is=imKq44dm0LOyAv5M

Next was a great talk by Thalia Wheatley on how interaction effects beliefs, attention, and feelings within and between people at the Santa Fe Institute https://www.youtube.com/live/Ysh6RBAZB7k?is=hM2r1zJ4QqNQXSqs

Next was “The Northeast Corridor” by David Alff. If you live in the Northeast of the US and often take Amtrak (🙋‍♂️), this book provides an enjoyable tour through the development and history of this vital train line. It is mostly a chronology, however, and so while you'll learn the timeline and major players behind the stations and route that the Northeast Corridor has become, you won't get a ton of insight into the underlying forces that drove its evolution. I would've liked a lot more economic and macro analysis of this line, and if you're looking for train history you're probably better off picking up another book https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo212886389.html