Topic
trade
- Systems and Supply Chains
You can't touch current events online (at least in circles I follow) without running into 25 opinions on what's causing our supply chain lock-ups. Global supply chains are just about the most interesting examples of s…
- Second and Third-Order Effects
From Mark Levinson's The Box, on the shipping container and its impact on global trade: The true importance of the revolution in freight transportation would be found not in its effect on ship lines and dockworkers, b…
- Weekend Reading: Data Moats, China, and Distributed Work
🏰 The Empty Promise of Data Moats In the era of every company trying to play in machine learning and AI technology, I thought this was a refreshing perspective on data as a defensible element of a competitive moat. T…
- The Box That Built the Modern World
Great piece about the modularization of shipping and how it powered global trade. More than any other single innovation, the shipping container—there are millions out there, all just like the ones stacked on the Hong…