Alaka Halder

Hosting conversations with writers, economists & technologists • Healthcare researcher (@getgarner) & art history enthusiast • Previously @PrincetonEcon

[Interintellect 🧭 @interintellect_]

Instead of telling us to log off and "touch grass," design researcher
@paminthelab wants to rethink how we live online.

She's joining host @HalderAlaka to discuss her new book, "All the Feels", mapping out how the digital world can actually enrich our emotions and human connections rather than destroy them.

Come join!
https://t.co/SnilzBGdVQ

[Alaka Halder @HalderAlaka]

@AmericanAir You're admitting this only after I found out about it independently and posted about it. None of your agents directed me to Customer Relations, and I have a DM with AA where your agents told me I'm not eligible for compensation.

[Alaka Halder @HalderAlaka]

After filing a complaint about my canceled flight, Customer Relations confirmed I'm eligible for compensation under EU regulations — contradicting every @AmericanAir agent I'd spoken to, including those on @X

Read the fine print and persist! I'll share an update once resolved 🙂

[Dr. Jonathan Moore @DrJPMoore]

@HalderAlaka @AmericanAir If you would be willing to share, I would love to know their response. I was involuntarily downgraded on the second leg of a round trip international flight and @AmericanAir only offered me about $200.

[Alex Imas @alexolegimas]

This is a great chart for why we should look at things like productivity and not “shipping” for signals of AI-driven economic acceleration. The former is a function of what people value enough to actually spend money on, the latter could be a proxy for it…but not necessarily.

[Alaka Halder @HalderAlaka]

@AmericanAir DMed. Post-cancellation, the DFW desk asked me to use https://t.co/y0AMge8Iq2 or chat (app), which asked me to call, which asked me to chat, which asked me to go to the gate agent, who asked me to call. Then I missed the flight out of D38

I need to know how to get a final answer

[Alaka Halder @HalderAlaka]

✈️ @AmericanAir How do I find out how much I'll be reimbursed when the 3rd leg of an international flight is cancelled? You stranded me in DFW and I had to cancel as the next available seat to AUS was 24h away. At that point, Southwest, a bus, or a car were better options.

[Alaka Halder @HalderAlaka]

@AmericanAir P.S. I'd have been home if auto-rebooking worked. Instead AA sent a plane to AUS with empty seats out of D38. I found out from an agent on the phone (after 30min of being shuttled btwn support channels). She got me a seat while I ran but the gate closed 2 min before I arrived

[Nancy Rommelmann @NancyRomm]

The fun never ends, and by fun I mean combatting the people and orgs worldwide ready to feast on your parents and grandparents until they are picked clean. Come hear horror stories that will hopefully save you and yours time, money and heartache https://t.co/JM3Is73jFo

[Alaka Halder @HalderAlaka]

@TheAnnaGat @zck Welcome to Austin! When do you arrive? Happy to share suggestions since I'll likely be traveling much of May

[Anna Gát 🧭 @TheAnnaGat]

Elder care in the United States and beyond can be an odyssey of malpractice and fraud.

@NancyRomm's new blog about this is moving and eye-opening.

Hosted by @HalderAlaka she's joining an Interintellect salon to discuss it with us all: https://t.co/58UErfmMm8

[Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac]

My dear friend Paige Harden and I both have new books out, and both are about crime & punishment — but from different (though still evidence-based) perspectives. I’m an economist. She’s a behavioral geneticist. We both grapple with the age-old question of what to do with people who’ve done bad things, guided by the best, cutting-edge evidence from our respective fields.

I think our books are very much in conversation - and so we had a conversation about them! Recorded, of course. It’s the latest episode of @ProbCausation - check it out! (Links to the episode and both our books are below.)

[Alaka Halder @HalderAlaka]

@JenShahade Congrats!! Love this photo and your outfit <3

[Alaka Halder @HalderAlaka]

@OpenTable Why make it so hard to unsubscribe from your incessant newsletters?

[Alaka Halder @HalderAlaka]

@JenShahade @interintellect_ We really loved the conversation and were so lucky to have you! You've inspired me to try chess again after almost 20 years ❤️ Congrats again on the book!!

[Alaka Halder @HalderAlaka]

🧭 Great discussion of Thinking Sideways with @JenShahade, three-time National Chess Champion, on @interintellect_ tonight!

Recap and recording coming soon.

(Jen was kind enough to send me the international edition because I love the cover!)

[Alaka Halder @HalderAlaka]

🧠♟️ Join @JenShahade and me for an @interintellect_ salon on Tue, March 31 (8pm ET) to discuss her new book Thinking Sideways — how to take chess strategies off the board and apply them to everyday decision-making.

✨ Sign up: https://t.co/LBLHYqNXJm

[Alaka Halder @HalderAlaka]

📚 The book is out April 7th. Get your copy here:

https://t.co/vz0i0YUZQt

[Alaka Halder @HalderAlaka]

@_sneck_ @austinenergy @GetSpectrum @Ask_Spectrum If this is true, why blame it on @austinenergy and say "your power company as not provided an estimate for when power will be restored"? It doesn't help at all with maintaining customers' trust

[Alaka Halder @HalderAlaka]

Case in point: @GetSpectrum outage since 9pm last night. They’re blaming it on an Austin Energy outage in my area but I checked the map — which is reliable — and there are no outages. What gives?

https://t.co/NnvCmdCDwM

[Alaka Halder @HalderAlaka]

How does @GetSpectrum retain any business in Austin? Constant outages, steep rate hikes, zero flexibility, and competition from better, cheaper options like Google Fiber. I’m excited to drop Spectrum in April!

[Alaka Halder @HalderAlaka]

@Ask_Spectrum @Ask_Spectrum can’t help. I’m getting “updates” via email that are blaming this on “my power company” (@austinenergy) but I’m skeptical