Longreads + Open Thread
Books, Kantians, Boardroom Politics, Hedge Fund Maximalism, Chips, Brazil,
Books, Kantians, Boardroom Politics, Hedge Fund Maximalism, Chips, Brazil,
Plus! Reformatting Competition; Ending Oil Won't End Energy Politics; The Bullwhip Effect in Discounters; Russia's Gold; Negotiating Governance
Plus! Rentier Nation?; Owning Link-in-Bio; Corn Politics; Big Tech Sees Like a State; Regulated Utilities as Traders
Plus! Slowing Rollups; Commodities and Cash; In Other Liquidity News; Referees and Players; Strategic Industry
Plus! Russia and Crypto; Winning and Losing the Global Oil Auction; Supply Constraints; EVs, AVs, and Financial Engineering; When The "E" in "ESG" Stands for "Energy"
Rankings, Russia, WordPress, Travel, China, Dollars, Diff Jobs
Plus! Deepfakes; Ending Algorithmic Parallel Construction; The Movie Business is now the Streaming Business; Reopening Vietnam; Omnichannel Food
Plus! Alpha and Attribution in VC; Background and Foreground Streaming; Capital Advantage; Non-Recarbonization
Plus! Hormetic Disruptions; The Microeconomics of the Return to Office; Away From Russia, With Effort; NFT Consolidation; What Users Want to Want
Confucius, Libra, Tech and War, Russian Gas, OSINT, Ryanair
Plus! PR Campaigns for Ads; Underperformance; Monetizing Dead Mileage; Movies and Dynamic Pricing; Peloton and Inventory Management
Plus! A Series of Tubes; What Not to Boycott; Leasing; Apple and TSMC; When an Ad-Based Business is an Ad