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On Generative AI

Let's Talk AI Tools (side project)

LLM-written, Human edited

Much of the time, we let ChatGPT/Claude take the lead in writing, turning our hours-long demo meetings into blog posts (full list here). Here's a sample of them:

On Student Loans & Financial Aid

How Student Loans Work

10 Jul 2022

The definitive primer for high school students and first-time borrowers-- and an example of how I can break down complicated financial concepts for lay readers via Going Merry's blog

State Grants & Financial Aid

6 Jun 2022

How to access state grants, which get students an average of $1000 extra for college-- and an example of how I can research and summarize disparate state processes via Going Merry's blog.

We had ChatGPT write Stanford's college app essays. Here’s what happened.

30 May 2023

Should applicants use AI to write their college essays? A panel of Stanford alumni adjudicate. -- An example of a more "fun" concept and writing style

via Going Merry's blog.

From Oxford MPP

System Down: Government IT and the healthcare.gov disaster (multimedia)

August 2015

My take on a Gimlet Media Reply All podcast. Submitted as my Oxford summer project report. View the multimedia version here. Or listen to the audio-only podcast here.

Relatedly: How I got a summer gig at a top podcasting network - check out the cached version of heygimletmedia.com.

Opeds (writing course)

Academic writing:

On Finance and Banking

The next generation (read: online) bank

12 Nov 2014

Goodbye wire transfers and physical branches, Hello robo-advisers and Bitcoin? via Prodigy Finance blog

Delivering on Africa's promise by filling the skills gap

17 May 2013

Thoughts on the 2013 World Economic Forum on Africa. via Prodigy Finance blog.

Impact investing: The search for an ethical return

7 Feb 2013

via Prodigy Finance blog.

How the UK government can support new models of banking

1 Mar 2013

Prodigy Finance's response to the UK Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards' request for commentary. Blog post here and published input here.

On Climate Change & Rural Development

Options for support to agriculture and food security under climate change

Jan 2012

How to support smallholder farmers through climate change: a summary of CGIAR knowledge. via Environmental Science & Policy 15(1).

An integrated adaptation and mitigation framework for developing agricultural research

Apr 2011

Synergies and trade-offs in mitigating and adapting to climate change. via Experimental Agriculture 47(2).

Gender, climate change, agriculture, and food security

July 2012

A CCAFS training-of-trainers (TOT) manual to prepare South Asian rural women to adapt to climate change.

Climate analogues: Finding tomorrow's agriculture today

Dec 2011

Identifying statistically similar climates (analogues) to learn and test climate adaptation techniques. CCAFS Working Paper No. 12.

More money, less food?

5 May 2011

On the Indian food security puzzle. via CGIAR CCAFS blog.