It has been 12 years since my first blog post: What is a Supply-Side Liberal? I have written an anniversary post every year since:

1. A Year in the Life of a Supply-Side Liberal

2. Three Revolutions

3. Beacons

4. Why I Blog

5. My Objective Function

6. A Barycentric Autobiography

7. Crafting Simple, Accurate Messages about Complex Problems

8. On Human Potential

9. Pandemic Passage: My Past 12 Months in Blogging

10. Everything is Changing

11. A Lull

Because our research team trying to bring about national well-being indexes that can stand as coequals with GDP has been at a critical and highly engrossing stage now for several years, I have tended to think of this blog as on hiatus. But as I look more closely, I see that my blog output is not zero; it is simply advancing at a snail’s pace.

In my own view, my most important post in the past year is “A Tweetstorm on Imperfect Information Processing.” Then there are several important pieces in video form:

• Scott Cunningham Interviews Miles

• Toward a National Index of Well-Being—Kristen Cooper

• What Do People Want? Trading Off Different Aspects of Well-Being—Video of an LSE Seminar by Miles Kimball

There is one bit of PR for our work on well-being indexes:

• How-To Guide for Happiness Surveys, Which Increasingly Drive Public Policy—Dan Benjamin, Kristen Cooper, Ori Heffetz and Miles Kimball

Then I learn something about myself from what I ended up writing about. Though I am in a period of reevaluation of what I believe, I continue to be very interested in diet and health. After all, I at least have to figure out what to do myself, and might as well keep some record of things I learn and think about here on this blog. Here is what I have written in the past year on diet and health:

• Cyclic Sighing

• National Intervention Evidence for the Benefits of Reducing Sodium Intake

• The Candification of Fruit—Bee Wilson

I teach about statistical identification in my “Ethics, Happiness and Choice” class at the University of Colorado Boulder. (You can see links to all of my course websites if you click the “Resources” button at the top of the page.) So I am always on the lookout for good examples to use. Here is one I found this past year:

• A Massive Study Correlating Cannabis Use with Clinical Depression and Bipolar Disorder Illustrates Why Longitudinal Studies Aren't a Silver Bullet for Establishing Causality

For my classes generally, I have a bibiographic post under construction: “Posts Useful for Teaching.” You might see something there.

I continue to be very interested in US Supreme Court decisions, in part because I come from a family of lawyers. (My Dad, my uncle Spencer Levan Kimball and my brother Chris were all law professors.) The current revolution in constitutional and statutory interpretation is fascinating to me. Here are two posts I wrote:

• Some Thoughts on Biden v. Nebraska

• Sonia Sotomayor's Dissent in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and the University of North Carolina Evinces an Impoverished View Of Our Ability to Measure Higher Education Outcomes

It is good to be fortified by stories of how good ideas often meet initial resistance. So I wanted to keep hold of this story:

• Zeolite Lessons

And there are many other useful things I wanted to keep track of; I used link posts as some of our forebears used commonplace books. You can page down to see those linkposts. I won’t try to repeat them here.