Scott Kominers
@skominers
Market Design/Entrepreneurship Professor @HarvardHBS & Faculty Affiliate @Harvard Economics; Research @a16zcrypto; Editor @restatjournal; Econ @Quora; … | #QED
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧, coauthored with @NFTbark -- available for pre-order now 📚👀 We attempt to demystify NFTs and explain why they’re valuable -- and what they mean for the future of business. amazon.com/gp/product/059…
COVID-19 is trending because of a new study in Nature Communications on "accelerated brain ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic" Of course we have known this forever. Thx Laura Miers for the receipts.
It is 2025, and Time Magazine just published a piece titled, “COVID-19 Made Our Brains Age Faster.” We have known this since 2021-2022. We were misled on purpose. This is *permanent* damage, & forever reinfections are expected. We will be blaming lockdowns until we die.
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😮💨 Why in the everloving-fuck, were our top national secrets on a SharePoint server?!?
*US NUCLEAR WEAPONS AGENCY BREACHED IN MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT HACK
I recently saw a patient with a serious infection. I prescribed the only effective oral antibiotic, but her insurance denied it. She’s still sick and is now at risk for sepsis. This is daily life for Americans. Meanwhile, the head of HHS is focused on the color of Froot Loops.
Froot Loops is finally following its nose — toward common sense. Thanks to the many parents who spoke out and pressured @KelloggsUS to remove harmful food dyes from its products. I urge more companies to step up and join the movement to Make America Healthy Again.
I wonder whether you’ve encountered @skominers’s recent mathematical portraiture project ‘πdentities’, @Noahbolanowski?
So what's a πdentity, and how do I get one? Tldr: a "πfp" where I create custom 1/1 representations of YOU via the digits of pi. Fully onchain. Minting starting on Saturday, but taking advance requests now. Price is .0628 ETH. QED Curious? Read on: 👇👀 Most people first…
Grateful to share that I’m joining @psdnai as a founding member and VP of Strategy & Ops. We’re announcing a $15M seed round led by @a16zcrypto and incubation by @StoryProtocol to build the data layer for AI, designed for the real world. There are 3 competitive races in AI:…
AI is moving beyond the browser and into the real world. The bottleneck? Data. Today we’re announcing a $15M seed round led by @a16zcrypto to build infra that collects, curates, and licenses high-quality data for physical AI. Incubated by and built on @StoryProtocol.
Right-wing cancel culture run wild! They’re not only canceling Colbert, global relief, the federal work force and their promise to release the Epstein File. Now they’re canceling Congress!
BREAKING: Mike Johnson just canceled votes for Thursday and is sending the House home early for summer recess in order to shut down Democratic efforts to demand more votes on releasing the Epstein files.
Speaker Johnson would rather cancel all votes & hearings than simply have a vote on bipartisan legislation demanding release of the Epstein files, something he, Trump & Bondi have been demanding for months! A pathetic new low in political cowardice & legislative malpractice.
Breaking News: Speaker Mike Johnson said he would shut down the House until September to block a vote on calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. nyti.ms/4nZtblR
If you're great at engineering and interested in working with me to build an AI product to make researchers more productive, DM me.
The Covid pandemic accelerated brain aging as seen in @uk_biobank paired MRI, 2 cohorts nature.com/articles/s4146…
It was my privilege today to speak at the Growth Academy to an audience of scholars, many of whom are engaged in policy advice. I spoke about integrating uncertainty formally into policy assessment. The audience asked great questions and probed ways to extend the insights to a…
LIVE at #GrowthAcademy25: @UncertainLars (@UChi_Economics) examines “Uncertainty, Social Valuation, and Climate Change Policy”—a deep dive into how different types of uncertainty shape the sense of urgency and direction of climate action. #Uncertainty