How to Blow Up a Timeline
July 17, 2023 • #Eugene Wei breaks down what's happening at Twitter.
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BuzzFeed's Analysis of Xinjiang Camps
August 26, 2020 • #BuzzFeed's analysis of real-time imagery to identify detention camps in China.
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Matthew Ball on Nintendo
July 26, 2020 • #A deep analysis of Nintendo's culture and what makes it unique in gaming.
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Weekend Reading: Children of Men, Google Earth at 15, and Slate Star Codex is Gone
June 27, 2020 • #Remembering Children of Men, Timoney on Google Earth, and the NYT and Slate Star Codex.
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Why Figma Wins
June 18, 2020 • #An analysis of Figma's business dynamics from Kevin Kwok.
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SSC Coronavirus Update
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Weekend Reading: The Anti Portfolio, Downlink 2, and nucoll
February 1, 2020 • #Tracking missed investments, Downlink for satellite imagery, and nucoll Twitter network analysis tool.
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Weekend Reading: Enemies of Writing, Wealth, and the Superhuman Inbox
January 25, 2020 • #George Packer on writing, wealth, and Superhuman as a nexus for productivity services.
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Underutilized Fixed Assets
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How to Lose a Monopoly
January 16, 2020 • #Benedict Evans on the differences between influence, dominance, and monopoly.
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Weekend Reading: The Worst Year to Be Alive, Chinese Sci-Fi, and Slack Networks
December 7, 2019 • #Why the 6th century was so miserable, the work of Ken Liu in spreading Chinese Sci-Fi, and Stewart Butterfield on Slack's shared channels.
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Why Don't We Know More About the Subway Cost Disease?
December 6, 2019 • #What's driving the massive multiplicative increases in costs and time-to-completion for large infrastructure projects?
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What Gets Expensive, and Why?
September 24, 2019 • #Economist Arnold Kling on why certain areas of the economy increase in cost while others drop.
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What is a Tech Company?
September 18, 2019 • #Ben Thompson on the defining characteristics of modern tech companies.
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On Retention
July 12, 2019 • #Thoughts on the importance of customer retention and net negative churn in the SaaS business.
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Weekend Reading: Rays on a Run, Apple's Pivot, and Mapping Grids
May 18, 2019 • #The Rays are on a tear through 2 months, Apple's Services business, and using Observable for mapping Voronoi polygons.
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Exploring Cycling Data with Python, Strava and PostgreSQL
May 9, 2019 • #Analyzing Strava data with Postgres and Python
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