Business

Corporations are AI and they’ve been fucking up the world for centuries

We know that consumer goods degrade, but the place they come from supposedly doesn’t

More proof that writing is immune to Venture Capital

Google is now noticeably worse than AI for many questions

Stick a fork in the Metaverse, it's done

How Twitter today is like a Renaissance Carnival

How next-day delivery is the new opiate of the masses

Obscene profits are the greatest market inefficiency

Most of what he’s selling is self-gratification

Competition incoming

VR is cool, but useless for Facebook

We made artificial beings out of corporations and they suck

Crypto is just the idea that 'hey, if those fuckers can make up money, so can we.'

It's fine.

Companies have legal personhood, limited liability, and it’s not going well

Basecamp's implosion—losing one-third of staff—is about much more than politics. It's a failure of philosophy.

A convicted monopolist is a vaccine monopolist. Who could have predicted this 🤔

Imagine if Facebook paid Ben Shapiro. That’s Substack Pro

Seize the means of financial production. You have nothing to lose but your trades

Because Facebook ads don’t work

Now thousands of people could be competing for your role from around the world.

No economy is an island. Not even islands

All the startups go in a box to the left

Green channels are opening-up

What the VC gets so wrong

Growing unchecked, it devours resources and ultimately kills

And why online advertising may not work at all

A truly free market would double world GDP

New businesses have declined 44% since the 1970s.

Fossil Fuels are the energy of the past

It’s settlement time.

They could have been a contender

Might as well ask a pachinko ball how it won

If you really wanted to do it, here’s how

The public should hold shares and workers should sit on boards

Google just ran a psychology experiment on all of us, and it worked

Over 50% of Netflix’s business is now international

And how it can doom your company

They still use tech to extract fossil fuels

Avoid work, avoid taxes, and cover it all up

Boeing’s cost-cutting finally led to disaster

How the 787 Led to the 737 MAX

Boeing’s culture crashed before the planes did

His death killed a timeline where TVs didn’t suck

Ive’s mobile products were a revelation, but his larger computers left a lot to be desired

Free movement makes the free market work

The most important thing is to choose your parents

Most Entrepreneurs Start Rich. I Did.

Hucksters love using this number to sell… videos

How Uber won and lost the world