THE DIFFVizio: Hardware to Software
Plus! The Non-Institutional Landlord Boom; Oil Capital; Local Subsidies; Deglobalization; Wealth Taxes and Opacity Subsidies
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How to Make Another Reserve Currency
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"
FinanceOne-Shot Sanctions
Plus! Hacks; Digital Prosthetics and Mixed Media; Energy Independence; The New Map; Order Frequency
FinanceTarget: Amazoning Backwards
Plus! No Neutral Parties; Manual Moderation; Better Ad Buying; Exporting Inflation to Japan
FinanceIdeological What and Why, Pragmatic When and How
Plus! Dealing With Expensive Crude; Logistics; Shorting Disclosure; Prices
FinanceMatch Group and Managed Dissatisfaction
Plus! Revolving Doors; Sanctions; Iterating; Bad Funds, Conflicts, and Bias; Diff Jobs
TechVC and the Systematic Search for Outliers
Plus! The Paradox of Decentralization and NFTs; Pigouvian Benefits Update; Two Kinds of Growth; Accidental Shortages; LNGeopolitics, Continued
FinanceWhat Happens When You Buy at an All-Time High?
Plus! Diff Jobs; Amazon and Ads Ads Ads!; NFTs as Tickets; Wages: Who's Losing?; Media-to-Monetization; Negawatts
FinanceThe Pandemic's Second Derivative: Did Zoom Change the Elasticity of Oil?
Plus! Markets and Clearinghouses; Review Filtering; Creator Funds; Subscriptions as an Asset Class; "Pay to Quit"
FinanceTuro: How To Build a Hybrid Vehicle With Financial Engineering (Among Other Things)
Plus! Buy Now Pay Later; Sports Betting; Price Levels; Energy
FinanceFacial Recognition as a Pareto Technology
Plus! Diff Jobs; Aligned Incentives; Lord, Make My Country Low-Emissions—But Not Yet; Elasticity; Google/TikTok Coopetition; The Remittance Economy
TechThe "Kids These Days" Model of User Retention
Plus! Tax Traps and Heterogeneous Preferences; Software Eats Lines; Number Cruncher Indigestion; Edge; The Other Last Mile
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