Trucking, AI, and Thesis-Validating Lawsuits
Plus! Propagating Shortages and Round-Trip Deals; The Google Roadmap; Building for Net Dollar Retention; Trade Deals; Revolving Doors
Plus! Propagating Shortages and Round-Trip Deals; The Google Roadmap; Building for Net Dollar Retention; Trade Deals; Revolving Doors
Plus! Price Caps; Second Sources; Shortage Propagation; Celebrity Chatbots
Plus! AI JVs; Stablecoins; AI and Proof-of-Work; Internalizing Externalities; Fame Exit Scams
Plus! The Fed; Walmart as Google's Alt-Azon; Two Convertible Bond Stories; FX Trades; Cheap Oil
Longreads * Oliver Traldi has a delightful critique of Straussianism (the school of political philosophy, not the general practice of hinting at one's secret views in a cryptic, plausibly deniable way). One of the paradoxes of the Straussians is that they're a school of thought with a
Plus! Deployment; Shopbots; Closed Loops; The Pull-Forward; Humanoids
Plus! Central Planning; Operating Costs; Platform Politics; Exchange Rates; Cycles and Cash Flow
Plus! AI and Context; Catch-Up Growth; Distressed Debt; Real Estate Derivatives; Network Effects
Plus! Diff Jobs; Beta; Material Nonpublic Information; App Stores; Gunboat Diplomacy; Liquid Content
History, Dan Wang, Arbitrage, Inequality, Cameras, Debt, LDS
Plus! Full-Stack; Scarcity; Sum-of-the-Parts; Nice Problems to Have; Distribution
Code, Models, Cognitive Dissonance, Data, Austen, Counterparties, the Reformation