Longreads + Open Thread
Education, Auto Theft, Optimizers, AI, Energy, Financial Engineering, Deep Research
Education, Auto Theft, Optimizers, AI, Energy, Financial Engineering, Deep Research
Plus! Scale; Outsourcing Capital; Closed-Loop Generative AI; The Perks of Market Power; Labor Markets
Plus! The Grid, and Cross-Subsidies; Pricing AI; Owning the Login; Liquidity Premium; Supply Chains
Plus! Antitrust Enforcement; Full-Stack; Decentralizing; Spoiler Bids; Platform Management
Plus! Short Selling; Crypto Treasury Gresham's Law; The Joy of Higher Rates; Labor Substitution; Pricing Black Swans
VC, Personal Finance, Careers, Hedge Funds, Hiring, Investing, Coase, Gates
Plus! Thematic ETFs; Event-Driven Ads; Lagging Demand; Implementation; Labor Price Discrimination
Plus! Dimensions of Competition; Jurisdiction; Streaming Fragmentation; Diversification; Twitter Debt, After All
Plus! Third-Order Consequences; A Sovereign Wealth Fund; Artificial Celebrities; Don't Call It Sports Betting; Retaliatory Tariffs
Plus! De Minimis; ARR; Jurisdictions; Forward-Deployed Engineers; Software and Hardware; Diff Jobs
Radio, Startups, History, Bally's, Dead Internet, Caesars
Plus! AI as Half an Interface; Network Effects and Boycotts; OpenAI and Structure; Strategic Reserves; Meta says Yes to Jevons