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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
First, the observation: over the last 20 years, we’ve gone from 30 minute sitcoms to 30 second clips and 30 episode Netflix binges. From a stable 9-5 job to a gig economy task or a crypto windfall. From a standard life script to 30 year olds living with their parents and 20 year old startup
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
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Sarah Kessler • Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work
hipster coffee shop”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The metamorphosis from rash young newbie to jaded old-timer had happened slowly.
Nick Bilton • American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web
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On a snowy night in Paris in 2008, Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp, in the city for a European tech conference, stood roadside getting wetter and colder as they tried in vain to hail a cab. Kalanick and Camp were, separately, already reasonably successful tech entrepreneurs. Kalanick had started an online content-delivery company, Red Swoosh,
... See moreAl Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, • Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets
Middleclass parents kept their kids in school instead of sending them off to the factory, and were discovering that the demographic between child and adult was a previously undreamed-of species.