Longreads + Open Thread
Excel, Lego Orrery, Steroids, Early Finance, Disagreeable Nerds, Programming, Elites, WallStreetBets
Excel, Lego Orrery, Steroids, Early Finance, Disagreeable Nerds, Programming, Elites, WallStreetBets
Plus! Busted Regulatory Arbitrage; Round Trips and Catalysts; AI and Distribution; All Noise, No Signal; Getting Alpha Everywhere
Plus! Catching a Falling Knife in Social; Short Reports and Disclosure; When to let Users Optimize; Apple and OpenAI; Painting the Tape
Plus! Marking Xi Jinping to Market; Vol and Dispersion; Choosy Tenders; Apple Intelligence; Preserving Tacit Knowledge
Plus! Privacy and Insurance; AI Fragmentation; Too Central to Fail?; Meritocracy; Activism; Diff Jobs
Solar, Cockroaches, Antitrust, HFT, Chicago, Legibility, Google, the Dark Ages
Plus! Owning the Login; IP Supply Chains; It's Annoying, But Is It Illegal?; Distribution Arbitrage; Growth and Accounting
Plus! App Abundance; Privacy and Training Data; Tariffs; Transaction Costs; Super-Commuters
Plus! Counterparty Risk; Mandatory Ad Load; Price Hikes and Alternative Data; The Decline of Shorting; Glitchy Prices and Broken Trades
Plus! The Google Feedback Loop; Fees on What?; The Micro Meta Turnaround; Yes, We're Doing the Meme Stock Thing Again; Diversification; Diff Jobs
Utopia, LLMs, Enron, Michael Nielsen, Ponzi Schemes, Workaholics, Buzzfeed, Honor
Plus! Activist ESG and Thresholds; Diversifying; Monetizing Interfaces; Synthetic Pay-in-Kind; Pershing Square