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Money, Credit, Trust, and FTX
Monday, November 14, 2022
Plus! Alternatives; Where Inflation Hits; The Best Job In tech; Sitting it Out; LNG; Diff Jobs
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
Philosophy; Pay; Economics; A/B Testing; ByteDance; War; Oil
Kroger / Albertsons: Buying Data in Bulk
Monday, November 7, 2022
Plus! Meme Shorts in Crypto; Unfiring; Will Expensive Food Cause Expensive Food?; The Outrage Cycle; Stability and Financial Repression; Diff Jobs
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Saturday, November 5, 2022
Cybernetics; Thermometers; Scams; Media; Publishing; Paper Belt
Is Mental Math Part of the Current Meta?
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Plus! Diseconomies of Scale; Licensing; Inflation; Normalization; Ads: Content and Context; Diff Jobs
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