Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

@paulgp.com

19038 Followers 1965 Following

Yale SOM professor & Bulls fan. I study consumer finance, and econometrics is a big part of my research identity. He/him/his

Day by day, however, the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are becoming more subservient to them; more men are daily bound down as slaves to tend them, more men are daily devoting the energies of their whole lives to the development of mechanical life. The upshot is simply a question of time, but that the time will come when the machines will hold the real supremacy over the world and its inhabitants is what no person of a truly philosophic mind can for a moment question.
# Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham: Blog and Social Media Style Guide _Created: 2026-03-18_ _Based on analysis of ~50,500 tweets (2019–2024) and 68 Bluesky posts (Feb–Mar 2026)_ --- ## I. VOICE AND PERSONA ### A. The Core Identity Paul's social media voice is that of **a deeply enthusiastic academic who hasn't lost his sense of humor about the absurdity of academic life**. He is simultaneously: - A serious methodologist who cares about getting econometrics right - A dad who is barely holding it together logistically - A generous teacher who shares everything he makes - A human being who swears, gets frustrated, and shares memes The voice is never performatively casual or performatively serious. It is a real person toggling between "here's the correct way to think about contamination bias" and "If I have to read this draft one more time, I'm going to stab my eyeballs." ### B. Emotional Register **Enthusiasm is the default mode.** Most tweets radiate genuine excitement: - "Uh, so Claude AI is pretty good."