Ezra Mechaber

"Workers in meeting-intensive firms report greater on-the-job learning...suggesting that knowledge transmission within firms is an important mechanism. Meetings are the broccoli of work – widely disliked, but probably good for us anyway." Horrible study. www.nber.org/papers/w35706

Local parents going nuts, The City reports. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/25/n...

Chose your news.

There are the people who take their backpacks off on the subway… and then there is everybody else.

And yet we are still waiting on Kathy Hochul to sign NY's balcony solar bill. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

Watching someone on the train read Donna Tartt’s Secret History for the first time and I’m just so excited for them. Are you kidding me???? What a rush.

As a person who recently drove on the FDR during the recent storm… I appreciate this.

Obsessed with @nycferry.bsky.social's new merch. shop.ferry.nyc

Can't tell if they're bragging or not, tbh.

How humiliating to be an apex predator in your ecosystem and sound like that.

For strong men Donald Trump likes.

it is very cool to be able to say this. the back-end is down, but all of the data is just.... out there and safe. even if the site never came back, ppl could easily build a replica

Using the internet in Europe is just so deeply unpleasant. So many modals. So many modals.

When they said, "wear a suit," I just assumed…  Find a public pool near you at nycgovparks.org.

Trump administration is picking winners and losers. The winners are large companies and the losers are small startups. Reserving the most advanced models for the largest companies will only increase their moats.

Haven't opened Ableton in years, but Bat For Lashes "Daniel" would go so hard over Donna Summer's "She Works Hard for the Money."

Everyone talks about leaving their laptop open for long-running agents, nobody talks about doing it with a three year old in the house.

Politico is resending election night 2024 breaking news alerts to my email in an act best described as a war crime.

I'm not asking for much. Do not give me a brussel sprout you haven't cooked. Do not give me a kale leaf you haven't massaged.

You're not a dad until you're in a group chat debating the merits of different Jack Ryan actors.

It blew my mind when I heard someone describe batteries as electron time machines. www.volts.wtf/p/sooner-tha...

My very first participation in democracy was, at age 4, sending a letter to Barney Frank to ask about the status of the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist investigation. He—or his LA and an autopen—wrote me back. I still have it. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

Leaned against an NYC subway station wall after a rainstorm and I’m now covered in an unknown combination of liquids. Expecting superpowers any moment now.

The tree pollen levels have reached "personal violence against me" territory.

Aw gee, who could have predicted that Polymarket was awash in insider trading by members of the government? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/n...

As someone who only knows how to work really very hard on things, let me tell you, no joke, I worked harder on this than anything I've ever worked on before, including any previous year of the festival. Letting myself feel relieved and proud today 💛

Yeah people seem to have decided that making anti social comments to anyone even remotely into AI is good ingroup signaling.

A bunch of high school kids are walking to school wearing ski goggles and safety glasses. Took me a minute to realize they’re playing Assassin - incredible it’s still around.

if Sean Duffy hates public transit so much, why does he always take the L? www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

@reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz think you guys would be interested in this one (from a former colleague, absolutely no idea if it's vaporware) www.crowdsupply.com/t76-org/dr-pd

Missed that Waymo's permits expired in NYC. Hope they restart it. There are lots of people with driving jobs, and we need to help them, but we should have fewer people driving. (See also: More public transit, etc.) www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/06/w...

3yo daughter combing my hair. "Now, we have to get the nuts out so we can plant an acorn tree." I couldn't figure it out until I realized that all this time we were combing the knots out of her hair... she thought we were combing the nuts.

Forcing my young children to join the one bag travel life like a Bean Dad over here.

Lavishly eating the entire bag of Marcona almonds like a member of the Medici family.

but doctor! i am satoshi

@aedwardslevy.bsky.social :eyes:

not to dunk on the NYT, but leading with "Trump Calls to Wipe Out a ‘Whole Civilization’" and "Melania Trump's Unexpected Look" has some cognitive dissonance involved.

Being an ex-DJ rules. Yes, I would love DJ Jazzy Jeff and Mark McGrath to come play our family BBQ, thanks for asking.

Getting Claude to start working on an MLLM scheme.

supa hot fire lapel pin dot gif

…any teen?

Ok, actually this headline is hilarious.