Why you need to care about climate change even if you don’t (want to) believe it — Four months ago, my wife and I realized a years’-long dream to relocate to New England from our beloved home state of California where I’ve lived essentially all my life, and my wife, since her emigration from Romania some twenty years ago. I was fortunate enough to grow up and…

When (seemingly) anticompetitive tactics increase social utility and benefit consumers — Copyright © 2022 Marc Hoag. All Rights Reserved. Not for copy or duplication, in whole or in part, without express written permission by the author Marc Hoag. Quotations allowed with full citation and link back to this article. Author’s note, July 2022 I wrote this research paper in November 2007…

Why the elimination of women’s most fundamental right is a reduction of all our rights, and shouldn’t even be questioned in the first place — I was one of those geeks in law school who actually loved law: I loved both the academics behind the law — I truly enjoyed law school — as well as the profound social impacts of our legal system. When the Great Recession of 2008 tragically scuttled all my law…

Every time I vote, I try to wrap my head around how We the People are expected to make informed, educated voting decisions not just regarding the presidency, but on state and local issues too. I try to educate myself as well as possible from the most legitimate, unbiased, academically-verified…

We should be one. Different views, different backgrounds, but one community all the same. — What follows is a post I felt compelled to write a few days ago, Friday the 27th of October 2023, in our local Nextdoor community of Marin County, California, the northern anchor point of the Golden Gate Bridge. Incredibly, it was deleted about 50 minutes after posting, and despite positive…

Ever since my wife and I returned with our baby to Marin County, CA back in February of this year following our delightful two year stint in New England, we often get asked what we loved most about it there; more cynically, we get asked whether we returned because we…

Why we must temper AI before we lose it forever, depriving ourselves of all the wondrous innovation and beauty it can bring — I have a fear: that governments of the world will decide to tightly regulate AI out of citizens’ hands just as surely as they regulate nuclear weapons; certain online behavior; and much more besides. Italy took the first preemptive step in this direction already. China too, of course. …

A 3-minute daily summary of the top news in climate change, clean energy, and autonomous/electric vehicles Dear Readers — all 1000+ of you! — Last month I launched a newsletter that summarizes the top news in climate change, clean energy, and autonomous/electric vehicles in about three minutes each weekday.

Twitter and Square both announced recently that henceforth, their employees may work from home… forever. Meanwhile, Facebook is effectively full-time WFH until 2021 (except, tentatively anyway, July 6 for those who need to be in the office); Google is on full WFH status until, somewhat weirdly, NYE 2021; and Microsoft…