Thursday assorted links

1. Jerry Douglas on dobro.

2. John Cochrane on causal identification.

3. What are the density trends in major cities around the world?

4. “You Can Now Invest In A Hedge Fund Dedicated To Hermès Bags.”

5. What does it mean for an experiment to be beautiful?

6. “In Cambridge [UK], even a 10-home scheme can trigger a requirement for a public art strategy that should equal 1% of the construction cost!”

7. Andrej on his Tesla ride.

8. New Yorker fact checkers confirm that AI song really did hit #1 on the C&W charts.

9. Here is the 5.1 Thinking model on different kinds of humor in Woody Allen movies, and then a follow-up question on the influence of Bergman.  Impressive, as is the model more generally.