Longreads + Open Thread
China, Inequality, 401(k)s, AI, Content, Counterparties, Costco, McLuhan
China, Inequality, 401(k)s, AI, Content, Counterparties, Costco, McLuhan
Plus! AI and Distribution; No Bad Publicity; Bootstrapping a Network; Social Primitives and Building Recommendation Systems; Supply Chains in Russia
Plus! The Accidental Strategic Crypto Reserve; BREIT!; The Corpus Must Grow; The Privacy Efficient Frontier; Bundles of Bundles
Plus! Preferred, not Common; Data Repositories; Law and Entertainment; Sharing Networks; Detecting AI
Plus! Martingale Beliefs; Diff Jobs; Country Equity; Costs and Benefits; Continuation Funds; Deepfaking the Dead and the Last Generation of Celebrities; Mature Financial Systems
Shorting, Archegos, Journalism, Mercenaries, Rust, Moonshots, AI, Reformation
Plus! Engineering (A Little) Reflexivity; Price Discrimination; Ad Cycles; Power; Power, Cont.
Plus! Reposts; Momentum; Product Convergence; Monetizing Access; Vertical Integration
Plus! Style Drift; Accelerating; Usage-Based Lock-In; Mean-Reversion; Branding
Plus! The Other Kind of Bank Unwind; AI Asset Plays; Retail Rides Again; Single-Family Rentals; AI Math
Reservations, Mallaby, Ebooks, Buybacks, TSMC, GAAP, ISAs
Plus! Finally, Deepfakes!; Unit Economics; Ubiquity; Consolation Prizes; Copper