Longreads + Open Thread
Crime, Blair, Game of Thrones, Hedge Funds, Research, Money, Greece
Crime, Blair, Game of Thrones, Hedge Funds, Research, Money, Greece
Plus! Automating Training; AI and the end of Mass Fame; Marketing Stunts; Size, Quality, and Passive Investing; User-Generated Content-Generating Agents
Plus! Licensing Data; Flipping the Switch on Self-Driving Cars; Accidental Lock-In; Unit Economics!; The Limits of Data
Plus! Unintended Consequences; The Nothing Ever Happens Trade; A Scale Game; Exits; A Little Less Financial Engineering at OpenAI
Plus! Diff Jobs; Margins; A Better, Costlier Alexa; Elasticity; Counterparty Risk, Served Two Ways; The Universal Denominator
Networks, Five Nines, Tours, Disinformation, Deglobalization
Plus! Light Fat-Finger Risk; DJT; One Basis Point at a Time; Discounting; AI and Tacit Knowledge
Plus! The Other Scaling Hypothesis; Cannibalization; Payments and Margins; Espionage; LLMs and Comedy
Plus! AI and Search; When Everything Turns Into Ads, Everything Turns Into Ad Arbitrage; Omnimedia; Middle-Market; Threads
Plus! The Economics of Hacking; Lead Generation; Adverse Selection; Tip Economics; First and Last Resort; Diff Jobs
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