Resources

My Setup

• Notes / writing

  • Most of my current projects (and all coauthored ones) are on Overleaf with dropbox integration.

  • For notes, I use Texifier. You can edit documents in dropbox synced with Overleaf, so it’s easy.

  • Also I store notes in Obsidian vaults in a dropbox folder. Note that Obsidian can’t render .tex files, which is why I like Texifier so much – it compiles, saves, and overwrites the pdf automatically.

• Hardware

  • Currently using a Logi wave keyboard. It’s solid, but I’ll be replacing it with a Microsoft Sculpt once Incase actually allows me to buy one.

  • Logitech MX Master 3. It’s the best for a reason.

• Software

  • Everything here is for MacOS. I have a MacBook Pro and have never wanted to switch to PC.

  • I used Quarto and Netlify to build this website.

  • For coding, I use Jupyter Notebooks for Julia and Python.

  • I also use GitHub for version control, and do all of this through terminal on Mac. I’m a novice, but it’s easy to learn.

  • For empirical work, I use Stata. I’ve always had an academic affiliation, so this is costless. Sorry to everyone who doesn’t.

Notes

There are a lot of extremely good free class notes available online. Here are some of the ones that I’ve found particularly useful.

• Causal Inference: Stefan Wager’s notes is the standard for a reason. These are brilliant

• Convex Optimization: One of the best courses I’ve ever taken.

• Machine Learning: Really good reference, especially their primers for Linear Algebra and Probability.

• Undergraduate Probability and Graduate Probability: Joe Blitzstein is the best.

Textbooks

I’m not going to put pirated PDFs on my website. However, these textbooks are all great and significantly better than their peers. Get them if you want.

• Foundations of Mathematical Analysis: By far the best analysis textbook I’ve ever used. By pacing, it assumes some prior knowledge, but otherwise is entirely self-contained. I own a copy purely as a reference.

• Microeconomic Theory: The first-year PhD sequence at Stanford is built off of three textbooks, from which the professors create a comprehensive set of lecture notes. Together, the textbooks work a lot better than courses from just one of them.

  • Microeconomic Theory (MWG), Microeconomic Analysis (Varian), and Microeconomic Foundations (Kreps)

• Game Theory: Just a great textbook. I read it cover to cover once.