Longreads + Open Thread
Cybernetics; Thermometers; Scams; Media; Publishing; Paper Belt
Cybernetics; Thermometers; Scams; Media; Publishing; Paper Belt
Plus! Hiring as a Sequencing Problem; Growth and Competition; Relocation; Writedowns; "Our rates, their problem"
Plus! Banks That Can't Prop Trade can Still Write Puts; Many Pockets; Pension Ouroboros; Aggregators; Fake Reviews
Plus! More Targeting; More Mixed Economic Messages; Jawboning; Monetizing Twitter; Insider Buying
Plus! Diseconomies of Scale; Licensing; Inflation; Normalization; Ads: Content and Context; Diff Jobs
AI and Value Capture; AI and Advertising; Huawei; China's Chips; Money Laundering; Loans
Plus! Amazon; Multistrategy; Mining for Volatility; FX; Goods and Collectibles
Plus! Meta; Other Metaverse Plays; Return on Talent; Vertical Search; Affinity Banking
Plus! Fun While It Lasted; Sanctions; Fast Delivery Can Work (But Not If It Grows Too Fast); Price Discrimination; Assets and Liabilities
Biased Coins; Baby Booms; McKinsey; Collusion-by-Software; Boards; Chips
Plus! Consumer of Last Resort; Inverting the Software-as-Regulator Dynamic; Snap; No Defense Boom Yet; Scaling
Plus! Cheap Japan; Software as Regulator; Bootstrapping NFTs; Collateral; Two Kinds of Uber Ads