It has been 13 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

12. A Snail’s Pace

In my professional life, the combination of teaching and working with our “Well-Being Index Initiative” team has been near all-consuming. (Close to a year ago, we published “From Happiness Data to Economic Conclusions,” we have a new NBER Working Paper just this month: “What Do People Want?” and we’ve been working on two grant proposals and a major paper revision.) So I haven’t had much time to devote to my blog in this past year. I have begun to think about devoting more time to my blog next year, possibly relaunching it on Substack sometime in 2026. But my blogging this past year has not been zero. Here are the posts that are more than link posts from this 13th blogging year:

• A Nonsupernaturalist Creed

• Turn Toward What is Hard, Not Away From It—Ryan Holiday

• Disparate Outcomes and Systemic Racism

• Frances Perkins, Loretta Ford and Policy Hope

• Push Through the Learning Pit

• Alan Watts: Each of Us Can Say `I am the Universe’

• Alan Watts: How to Come Back from Alienation with the Universe and with Ourselves

• LLMs as Facilitators of Many-to-One Human Interactions