ZD 26.30: The Price Is a Rumor
Quoted numbers are not the real numbers.
🛢️ There Is No Single Oil Price (Giacomo Prandelli)
The oil prices in the headlines are far from the real price. Layer upon layer of suppliers, transporters and associated businesses help define how much cash is required on the barrelhead.
📉 The AI Correction (Devansh)
Is the AI industry undergoing a large-scale asset repricing as the combination of more expensive compute, cost-wary customers and more expensive finance conspire to put a damper on the party?
🧵 The Foundation that Never Opened (Dylan Matthews)
Mechanizing cotton picking was a hard problem in American agriculture. Two socialist brothers finally made the breakthrough in 1931. The Rust brothers never quite achieved commercial success; International Harvester and John Deere won the prize and the brothers’ altruistic Foundation never got funded.
⌨️ The Bottleneck Was Never Generation (Addy Osmani)
The faster your software factory creates code, the faster the comprehension debt piles up. Weekend projects and smaller-scale systems can absorb the damage, but larger-scale systems with lifecycles measured in years or decades cannot afford that much unread code.
🎓 Will Higher Education Survive? (Alex McCann)
What does a degree even offer in an age of rapidly automating intelligence? And what does the degree tell your future employer as the old filters fail?
🌞 The Rise of the Anti-Sunscreen Movement (Men’s Health)
Sunscreen, like everything in America, might not be good for you. Or it could be great for you, depending on whose science you believe.
🪖 Asymmetric Cyber Warfare is Here (Reid Hoffman)
Anyone who can afford the tokens can launch an effective, multi-pronged cyberattack. Attackers need to find a single chink in the armor; defenders need to cover every gap.
🤔 The Complexity Argument (Mark Eddleston)
Most organizations are complex systems. Complex systems are very hard to transform and will find their own patterns. Size your experiments so they can fail without killing your operation.
😀 Redesigning Meetings So That Everyone Gets Heard (Admired Leadership)
Deliberate action is required to make sure the newest and quietest team members get heard. Leaders must make sure everyone is heard.
🍾 The Origins of the Package Store (Robert F. Moss)
Package store has more to do with the Supreme Court ruling rather than any custom of wrapping liquor packages in plain, brown wrappers for social sensitivities.
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