Chris Goodman
Associate Professor @ NIU. Public finance & local govts. Special districts, mostly. 🚴
📍 Chicagoland
🌐 www.cgoodman.com
- Stuck the landing #Andor
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- I really appreciate working with people who are smart and strategic long-term thinkers. It makes life a lot easier.
- Come on, Sage. What is up with your social share card? No title? No description? No images? Come join the modern internet with us.
- In all seriousness, if you only have one day in the loop, this is probably the biggest bang for your buck. I live here and do one about once a year. It never gets old.
- Stay with me, but what if ESPN did this 8 years ago and won the streaming wars?
- Skier’s Thumb from riding a mountain bike. Typical.
- Perhaps I am a Luddite, but I had not considered this a use of AI. And if the underlying work is AI generated, it’s literally machines talking to machines. Let’s not.
- Is it Tyler Technologies’ fault or the Assessor’s? A botched tech implementation is still the fault of those in charge of the agency.
- Federal employee gift limits are $20 per occasion with a $50 annual cap from a single source. I don't think I could buy a 747 for $20.
- Reposted by Chris GoodmanMastering typefaces and fonts in #rstats has always been harder than it should. I have tried to collect much of my relevant knowledge in this deep-dive blog post so you can spend your time picking the right typeface instead of cursing at the computer
- This is basically what I agrue about townships—look at the services, who uses/values them, and what would happen if those go away. Taxes are only one side of the coin.
- I took a stab at writing down the off-the-cuff speech I give about AI at the beginning of each class.
- Added to the reading list (h/t @henrygrabar.bsky.social).
- Ok, I am pretty sure that I have actually done this. Reading inbox, recently read, tags, and surfacing random highlights in my daily note. Maybe I'll write a blog post about it.
- I live adjacent to a historically corrupt place, and let me tell you, a quid pro quo is not necessary for corruption to happen.
- Read: Trump blinks.
- * TRUMP: TOTAL RESET WITH CHINA @cnbc.com @bloomberg.com
- Look, I understand frustration with homelessness not coming down more quickly. It’s a wicked problem, after all. But, my man, this ain’t it. AND, there’s a much more humane solution looking you right in the face.
- If Amazon/MGM had any stones, they'd name Rebecca Ferguson the next Bond.
- Oh, yeah, first wash of road rash with antibacterial soap. <all cyclists wince> Gotta keep it clean. It’s superficial and will be gone in a week.
- I know this, but laying a bike down on my face is a little painful. Luckily, no real damage other than a stitch or two.
- I'm trying to figure out if I can replace Readwise with the Obsidian web clipper. And that's a wild thing to say (former: a whole ass code base; latter: some markdown files).
- Call me old fashioned, but I think you should see the face of the ICE agent trying to disappear you.
- Follow up question: Do you know what the official function of the Library of Congress is?
- BBC World News: “Newly installed authoritarian leader of the United States attends a military revue in honor of his birth. The parade begins from the US military headquarters and draws troops from the hinterlands of the country.”
- Not catholic, but Chicago Pope? Let's go!
- FYI: this also applies to the vast majority of state and local govts. Is your city run better/more efficiently than a randomly selected small business from the same community? Absolutely, 100% of the time.
- Long-running academic journals that don't retroactively assign DOIs to their articles.
- I started watching “Light & Magic,” Disney+’s docu-series on ILM, last night. I made it about 20 minutes before buying one of the films that someone worked on in the 70s (Running Silent 4k Special Edition). This show is going to be bad for my bank account.
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- Right, you are.
