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The Worst Case Scenario For AI Is Already Here
Corporations are AI and they’ve been fucking up the world for centuries
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The Lie At The Heart Of Consumer Society
We know that consumer goods degrade, but the place they come from supposedly doesn’t
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The Substack Shitshow
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More proof that writing is immune to Venture Capital
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How Google Search Is Falling Behind
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Google is now noticeably worse than AI for many questions
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Facebook's Pivot To VR Has Failed
Stick a fork in the Metaverse, it's done
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The Blue Check Carnival On Twitter
How Twitter today is like a Renaissance Carnival
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The Existential Terror Of Amazon Prime
How next-day delivery is the new opiate of the masses
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How Big Business Makes Everything LESS Efficient
Obscene profits are the greatest market inefficiency
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Elon Musk Is A Masturbator More Than An Innovator
Most of what he’s selling is self-gratification
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Tesla’s Netflix Problem
Competition incoming
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I Tried The Metaverse, and It’s None Of Facebook’s Business
VR is cool, but useless for Facebook
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Capitalism Is A Golem Run Amok
We made artificial beings out of corporations and they suck
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How I Finally Understood Crypto (Thru Animal Farm)
Crypto is just the idea that 'hey, if those fuckers can make up money, so can we.'
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What Life Is Like Without Amazon
It's fine.
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Corporations Are People And They're Killing Us
Companies have legal personhood, limited liability, and it’s not going well
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Basecamp's Problem Isn't Politics. It's Philosophy
Basecamp's implosion—losing one-third of staff—is about much more than politics. It's a failure of philosophy.
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Bill Gates Is A Vaccine Racist And It's Getting People Killed
A convicted monopolist is a vaccine monopolist. Who could have predicted this 🤔
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Why Substack Sucks
Imagine if Facebook paid Ben Shapiro. That’s Substack Pro
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GameStop And Why We Should Take Over The Stock Market
Seize the means of financial production. You have nothing to lose but your trades
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Why #StopHateForProfit Is An Existential Threat To Facebook
Because Facebook ads don’t work
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Remote Work Means Anyone Can Take Your Job
Now thousands of people could be competing for your role from around the world.
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No Country Can Restart Alone
No economy is an island. Not even islands
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Tech Companies Are Non-Essential Services
All the startups go in a box to the left
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The Travel Bubble Opening In Asia
Green channels are opening-up
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Marc Andreessen Invents Government
What the VC gets so wrong
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How Ride-Hailing Is a Cancer
Growing unchecked, it devours resources and ultimately kills
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How Uber Discovered That 80% of Its Ads Were Useless
And why online advertising may not work at all
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Free Market = Open Borders
A truly free market would double world GDP
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This Is the Worst Time for Startups
New businesses have declined 44% since the 1970s.
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Green Energy Is Now As Cheap As Fossil Fuels
Fossil Fuels are the energy of the past
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Yahoo Will Pay You $100 If You Had One of Their Shitty Accounts
It’s settlement time.
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How Instagram Could Have Beat Facebook
They could have been a contender
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Why Studying Successful Founders Is Pointless
Might as well ask a pachinko ball how it won
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Population Control for Climate Change
If you really wanted to do it, here’s how
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Socialize The Stock Market
The public should hold shares and workers should sit on boards
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How Google Tricked Us Into Clicking Ads
Google just ran a psychology experiment on all of us, and it worked
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Netflix’s Secret Weapon: The World
Over 50% of Netflix’s business is now international
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How Fundraising Costs Founders Money
And how it can doom your company
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Microsoft’s Carbon Plan Is Hot Air
They still use tech to extract fossil fuels
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Cheat To Win: How To Really Think Like A Billionaire
Avoid work, avoid taxes, and cover it all up
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How The 737 MAX Went Down
Boeing’s cost-cutting finally led to disaster
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How The Dreamliner Became A Production Nightmare
How the 787 Led to the 737 MAX
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Boeing’s Culture Crash
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Boeing’s culture crashed before the planes did
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What If Steve Jobs Made A TV?
His death killed a timeline where TVs didn’t suck
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Why Apple Is Better Without Jony Ive
Ive’s mobile products were a revelation, but his larger computers left a lot to be desired
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Immigrants Drive Entrepreneurship In America
Free movement makes the free market work
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The Best Startup Advice: Start Rich
The most important thing is to choose your parents
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Privilege Made Me An Entrepreneur
Most Entrepreneurs Start Rich. I Did.
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CEOs Do Not Read a Book a Week
Hucksters love using this number to sell… videos
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Uber’s Rise And Fall In One Map
How Uber won and lost the world