Yes! Whenever someone brings up Book of Why in conversation, I recommend this review.

I enjoy King and Roberts on robust SEs + Aronow's reply. I lean toward agreeing with Aronow but typically tell people to read both.

I love watching Efron interviews. It's amazing that he's managed to stay so humble given his accomplishments. When asked about how he came up with the bootstrap, he began: "It's a story about having good colleagues." www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l9V...

I remember being shocked when I first flipped through Mosteller and Tukey's 1977 textbook and saw them promoting cross-validation...I had, embarrassingly, assumed it was a recent development and invented by computer scientists...

Hey John, any plans to bring TeXtip to Bluesky? It is the Twitter account I miss the most :)

I like to begin with probability theory and frequentist inference for population means, but I'm not sure about putting regression before causal inference. I also like @bstewart.bsky.social's practice of putting non-linear regression (with one covariate) *before* linear regression