This week, I’ll be linking individually great podcast episodes.

I’m completely overwhelmed by work and life recently. While I might have time do quickie posts like this one, longer investigative journalism post (like the one on stablecoin source of funds I’m working on) will take time to get together.

While I’m working on another in depth stablecoin research piece, here are my links of the week:

As I’m writing this, Russia’s attempted invasion into Ukraine has devolved into what can only be described as a quagmire, both in humanitarian and military logistics terms. The Russians are apparently preparing to storm Kyiv in the next 24-96 hours.

This is the first edition of my weekly curated links. It’s inspired by Tom Scott’s newsletter.

Today I’ll show why it is a big mistake to hire a real estate agent if you are selling your house (in the current market).

I was recently part of Casey Muratori’s series of interviews on cryptocurrencies.

Here’s a rough estimate on much wasted semiconductor production there is because of proof-of-work

In light of the excellent 2021 Economics Nobel choice [footnote]Proud member of the microeconometrics gang[/footnote], I want to explain a game theory problem which I think anyone giving a good solution to is getting the economics Nobel in a few decades. Don’t hold your breath on actually solving it, though.