Olivier Simard-Casanova

Olivier
Simard-Casanova

Independent economist, data scientist, and science popularizer

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15 July 2023

What to make of the decreasing engagement metrics of Threads?

Calling Threads already dead is premature

Themes: IndieNotes, Mastodon, Notes – IndieNotes, Threads, Twitter
15 July 2023

Stage Manager is not there yet

Despite substantial progress, Stage Manager is still hard to use on iPadOS

Themes: iPadOS 17, Notes – Walled Garden, Stage Manager, Walled Garden
1 July 2023

Threads, Meta’s answer to Twitter, is out

The launch of Threads is close to an industrial disaster for Twitter

Themes: ActivityPub, Fediverse, IndieNotes, Mastodon, Notes – IndieNotes, Threads, Twitter
30 June 2023

Twitter has effectively become a fully walled garden

The move is unilateral, and further degrades the usefulness of Twitter for content creators

Themes: IndieNotes, Notes – IndieNotes, Twitter
2 June 2023

I am back!

After a long and unwanted hiatus, I am excited to relaunch my economics newsletter

Themes: Academia, Announcements – LOGOecon, Careers, Diversity in economics, LOGOecon, Logology, Meta-science, Publication biases, Reproducibility, Scientific consensus
17 November 2021

At long last, my newsletter!

Launching this newsletter is both the scariest and the most exciting thing of my career in economics

Themes: Agent-based computational economics, Announcements – LOGOecon, Diversity in economics, LOGOecon, Logology, Reproducibility