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Your Life is (Almost) a Call Option
Friday, October 1, 2021
Plus! Reactive Strategy; Working it Out; Standardizing the Metaverse; Probability; When Payments Work; Introducing Diff Jobs
Longreads + Open Thread
Saturday, September 25, 2021
Protein & Wheat Diplomacy, Org Charts, Death, Algorithms, Machiavelli, Strauss
Identity and the Login: Who Owns "Who's That?"
Friday, September 24, 2021
Plus! Facebook Apologetics; Food Delivery and Unit Economics; More Air Taxis; Business and China
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Saturday, September 18, 2021
.400 Investors, Klein and Cowen, Cashmere, Rock, mRNA
Yandex: Google Through the Looking Glass
Friday, September 17, 2021
Plus! Shifting the Curve; Where Housing Demand Comes From; Throughput; Lobbying; Customer Service-as-a-Service
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