Devon Daley

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[Devon Daley @devondcdaley]

🌍 lives lost for our liberty

[Devon Daley @devondcdaley]

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[Yardie Rams 🇯🇲🐏 @YardieRams]

We Remember. 🫡 #Dcfc #RemembranceDay 🐏

[Brian Hurst @soulandjazz]

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[Devon Daley @devondcdaley]

#destinationderbados 🎥 Windrush Streets Paved w Gold @derbyquad Fri 23 Oct @victor_richards 🎬 630pm plus Q&A 730-8pm: tkts https://t.co/ajIyj8VFiD

Black Tie Ball 💃 Sat 21 Nov @dcfcofficial pride park stadium-tkts : #opendoorsforum #noirsportsderby event host @devondcdaley 🤵‍♂️

[Devon Daley @devondcdaley]

Lunar Soul ep 5 now live 🚀 listen FREE on demand for 30 days anytime 🌍 anywhere @soulandjazz 🎙️
avec moi @devondcdaley 🎧
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[Brian Hurst @soulandjazz]

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[Brian Hurst @soulandjazz]

#LatestShows #OnDemand #FreeToStream... The fourth instalment of #LunarSoul is ready to take off and the man at the controls, @devondcdaley, would very much like you to join him on board 🎧 https://t.co/OuuHVOQBbl #33GoodReasons #YowsahYowsah #Derbados Uppgötva

[Brian Hurst @soulandjazz]

#BOTW Catching the eye of @devondcdaley recently and part of a magnificent trilogy... Served c/o @BirlinnBooks, @Detroit67Book: 'Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul' (2016) ▶️ https://t.co/HpZCMsAxHA Book of The Week #TakeAMoment #Discover Enjoy!

[Brian Hurst @soulandjazz]

#LatestShows #OnDemand #FreeToStream... The fourth instalment of #LunarSoul is ready to take off and the man at the controls, @devondcdaley, would very much like you to join him on board 🎧 https://t.co/OuuHVOQBbl #33GoodReasons #YowsahYowsah #Derbados Uppgötva

[Brian Hurst @soulandjazz]

Into Year 18 and #SoulandJazz is getting ready to build a curated #Livestream like no other. Please support via @Indiegogo if you can and let the good people know! Here's the details ➡️ https://t.co/0rcVydXSM1 #CuratedThroughExperience #Soul #Jazz #Crowdfunding Thank you.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How airplanes stay in the air explained simply

[Devon Daley @devondcdaley]

#LunarSoul ep4 🚀 🎧 🪩 🎙️ goodness goes deep 📻 🔥

[Brian Hurst @soulandjazz]

#LatestShows #Premiere #OnDemand #FreeToStream... The fourth instalment of #LunarSoul is ready to take off and the man at the controls, @devondcdaley, would very much like you to get on board 🎧 https://t.co/OuuHVOQBbl #33GoodReasons #YowsahYowsah #Derbados ディスカバー

[Brian Hurst @soulandjazz]

#LatestShows #Premiere #OnDemand #FreeToStream... The fourth instalment of #LunarSoul is ready to take off and the man at the controls, @devondcdaley, would very much like you to get on board 🎧 https://t.co/OuuHVOQBbl #33GoodReasons #YowsahYowsah #Derbados ディスカバー

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A tennis player who made $25 million hitting a ball just took a desk job at a Swiss bank. And the bank might be getting the better end of the deal.

Gael Monfils is 40. Zero days of finance experience. On paper this is a retirement hobby.

But think about what a private bank actually sells. The product is trust with rich people, and Monfils spent 22 years inside the most concentrated pool of new money on earth. Pro sports is an industry where a 24-year-old signs a $50 million contract on a Tuesday and has no plan for it by Friday.

The numbers on what happens next are brutal. A famous Sports Illustrated investigation found 78% of NFL players in financial distress within two years of retiring. Athletes rarely lose money to bad markets. They lose it to people they trusted for the wrong reasons.

Banks figured this out years ago. UBS built an entire athlete wealth division and put a former NFL defensive end, Adewale Ogunleye, in charge. The ex-teammate gets the meeting the Harvard MBA never will.

Now look at Monfils. He already lives in Geneva. His wife Elina Svitolina is still on tour, so his locker room network stays warm for another decade. Every player he's practiced with, dined with, or lost a five-setter to over two decades is a future client.

Banks spend millions chasing one meeting with people like that. Monfils spent 22 years in the room with all of them.

That's the hire.

[Bastien Fachan @BastienFachan]

Mirka Federer's heartfelt speech as she introduced husband Roger Federer to the Tennis Hall of Fame ❤️

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Roger Federer is 45, has been retired for 4 years, and just hit a behind-the-back volley that the human brain cannot consciously react to. The ball arrives faster than his visual system can process it.

Here's the math on a net exchange. The ball covers the distance between two players at net in roughly 250-400 milliseconds. Your brain needs about 100ms just to get the image from your retina to your visual cortex, then more time to decide, then another 100ms+ to fire the muscles.

The window doesn't exist.

So elite net players stopped using it decades ago. They read the opponent's shoulder turn, wrist angle, and racket face before contact, and commit to the shot while the ball is still on the other guy's strings. Federer chose the behind-the-back before McEnroe finished his swing. His brain played the point 200 milliseconds into the future.

The reason he can still do it after 4 years away is that this skill was never stored where normal memories live. Facts and names decay in the hippocampus. Motor programs get burned into the cerebellum and basal ganglia across 1,526 career matches, insulated in myelin, and they barely degrade at all. Same reason you can ride a bike after 20 years.

He hit this shot the night before his Hall of Fame induction. First year eligible, the only player elected in 2026. A class of one, which after watching that clip feels about right.

[Jesús Fernández-Villaverde @JesusFerna7026]

Last week I posted a new paper with Patrick Norrick: “Terra Incognita: The Economics of a Shrinking World.”

We chose the title deliberately. No society in history has experienced the fertility levels now seen in South Korea, China, Thailand, Colombia, Chile, and many other countries. Our knowledge of the causes (and of the economic consequences) remains far more limited than most public discussion acknowledges. Much of what we write is, at best, educated conjecture.

The paper also struggles against a space limit. We wrote 20,000 words, far from the 250,000 or so we would need to address some issues in more detail (if I had the time and resources to hide away for a year, I could do that, but not now). That means some ideas are only sketched.

Nonetheless, we emphasize several important points.

First, fertility has fallen very fast everywhere: rich and poor countries, east and west, north and south, conservative and liberal societies, religious and non-religious societies (with the exception of the Jewish population of Israel; fertility has also collapsed among the Muslim population within the pre-1967 borders), you name it. Even in sub-Saharan Africa we see fast and unprecedented drops in fertility (alas, from a high initial level).

Second, and this is really interesting, the fertility collapse has been concentrated in poor and lower-middle-income countries much more than in rich countries. By now, income per capita and fertility are positively correlated within OECD countries. We conjecture this will hold globally in a few decades.

Third, and related to the second point, the fertility collapse has been concentrated among poor and lower-middle-income women within countries. In countries such as the U.S., the rich and highly educated now have more children than the poor and less educated.

Fourth, we document why we do not understand the data from the U.N. World Population Prospects. See, for example, Tables A.1 and A.2.

Fifth, we explain why some proposed mechanisms struggle when confronted with the data.

A more subtle point is at work here. Many commentators do not seem to understand the difference between proximate causes and ultimate causes. Yes, births might have gone down because fewer women are in long-run relationships. That is the proximate cause. But you need to explain why fewer women are in long-run relationships (the ultimate cause), and saying that they spend more years in school, to take one example, does not get us very far. Why do they spend more years in school? Once you start down the whole chain of reasoning, things become much harder than they seem.

The paper can be found here:

https://t.co/VrCHr0lBPa

Comments always welcome!