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Blog by Sharad Goel and Daniel Reeves.

New York City
Joined January 2010
New blog post: Living the Robot-Mediated Life. messymatters.com/tv (In which @dreev answers a question about auctioning about sex.)
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Draft of upcoming Messy Matters article about what freaks @dreev and @thatgirl are: expost.padm.us/econselfhelp
Messy Matters guest post by @thatgirl sparked a tiny media frenzy (nbcnews, etc). See links at messymatters.com/autonomy#up…
New blog post: Sex, Race, and Politics in Online Dating. messymatters.com/dating/
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Merry Christmas from Messy Matters! Here's why gift giving is (mostly) terrible! messymatters.com/scrooge
New blog post deflating some of the Filter Bubble hype: messymatters.com/bubble (turns out people don't get their news from social media)
Messy Matters retweeted
Y'know how online polls are unscientific? You can science that sht up w/ a stats technique affectionately called Mr P messymatters.com/biasedpolls
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New Messy Matters post: review of Google Glass by @dreev /cc @caseorganic
Preview of upcoming Messy Matters post by @dreev: Google Glass Review expost.padm.us/glass
New blog post on virality by @5harad: This is Viral. messymatters.com/virality
Preview of next Messy Matters post about @5harad et al's new paper on virality: expost.padm.us/virality
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Guest post by @thatgirl, published w/ seconds to spare to not forfeit $800 pledge: Financial Autonomy in Marriage. messymatters.com/autonomy
Timely (tee hee) Messy Matters Classic: messymatters.com/dst (DST = clever hack to solve an otherwise intractable coordination problem)
Draft of next Messy Matters post: Why my spouse and I are financially autonomous. expost.padm.us/finaut (guest post by @thatgirl)
New blog post, "Lies, Damned Lies, Rape, and Statistics": messymatters.com/rape (picking on the New York Times again) cc @5harad
Draft of next Messy Matters blog post: Lies, Damned Lies, Rape, and Statistics. expost.padm.us/rape
Traditional Messy Matters Solstice tweet: messymatters.com/scrooge (scroogenomics vs justifications for gift giving)
New blog post: The Irrationality of Rationing. messymatters.com/gas
We made a bunch of improvements to Gmail Snooze: messymatters.com/snooze (Also check out @bmndr + #nanowrimo: blog.beeminder.com/nanowrimo )
New Messy Matters post: Email Snooze and Gmail Zero. messymatters.com/snooze dreev.es/snooze
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