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Is Mental Math Part of the Current Meta?
Monday, October 31, 2022
Plus! Diseconomies of Scale; Licensing; Inflation; Normalization; Ads: Content and Context; Diff Jobs
Longreads + Open Thread
Saturday, October 29, 2022
AI and Value Capture; AI and Advertising; Huawei; China's Chips; Money Laundering; Loans
Snowflake, Revisited
Monday, October 24, 2022
Plus! Microsoft's Antitrust Edge; The Free Time Dividend; Feedback Loops; The News Business; Ending the Traffic Jam; Diff Jobs
Longreads + Open Thread
Saturday, October 22, 2022
Biased Coins; Baby Booms; McKinsey; Collusion-by-Software; Boards; Chips
The Rise of Single-Result Search Products
Monday, October 17, 2022
Plus! Mango Manipulation; The Other Emerging Labor Shortage; China's Labor Shortage; Unspinning; Bad News; Diff Jobs
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