Longreads + Open Thread
Simons, Books, Software, AI Ghosts, Sea People, Amazon, Financial Literacy, IBM
Simons, Books, Software, AI Ghosts, Sea People, Amazon, Financial Literacy, IBM
Plus! Outages, and the Cadence of Network Effects; App Stores' Political Economy; Transparency; Supply and Demand; The Long Generation
Plus! AI, in Depth and Breadth; Reputation Arbitrage; Strategic Housing Reserve; Scope 4; Splinternet
Plus! Temu and the Equity/Preferred Question; Collusion; IP and PR; Pod Shops; Meme Stocks, Again
Plus! Diff Jobs; Making a Market; Outsourcing; Multicloud Can Frackers Collude?; Infrastructure; Area Man Tweets
China, Inequality, 401(k)s, AI, Content, Counterparties, Costco, McLuhan
Plus! AI and Distribution; No Bad Publicity; Bootstrapping a Network; Social Primitives and Building Recommendation Systems; Supply Chains in Russia
Plus! The Accidental Strategic Crypto Reserve; BREIT!; The Corpus Must Grow; The Privacy Efficient Frontier; Bundles of Bundles
Plus! Preferred, not Common; Data Repositories; Law and Entertainment; Sharing Networks; Detecting AI
Plus! Martingale Beliefs; Diff Jobs; Country Equity; Costs and Benefits; Continuation Funds; Deepfaking the Dead and the Last Generation of Celebrities; Mature Financial Systems
Shorting, Archegos, Journalism, Mercenaries, Rust, Moonshots, AI, Reformation
Plus! Engineering (A Little) Reflexivity; Price Discrimination; Ad Cycles; Power; Power, Cont.