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Blown Off Course is a reading journal and seminar notebook on human capital: how people learn, work, and flourish, and what gets in the way.

Every few weeks I publish a reading note on a book or paper that has stopped me cold, a seminar dispatch from an economist whose work I'm thinking through, or an essay on an idea I can't shake. No algorithms. No noise. Just careful reading, shared.

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Aisha Alsayegh PhD student in economics. Former banker. Persistent reader.