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Reading the short Stratechery updates each weekday has allowed me to drop dozens of other news sources and still come away with a better understanding of what’s happening in technology and why.
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
Remember when Apple, feigning consumer privacy concerns, released ATT thinking it would kill Meta’s ad business?
Well it turns out that Meta is pretty good at AI and was able to re-establish their targeting and tracking capabilities within like 12 months of the ATT rollout.
And no other... See more
Dan McCormickx.comThe iPhone’s success was sparked by world-class software and hardware design, but its moat was driven by economic switching costs.
In 2013 there was a growing investor consensus that Apple’s iPhone innovation had peaked, and that Samsung’s new Galaxy phone would finally crush Apple’s smartphone growth and... See more
Bill Shopex.comOne Person, One Billion Dollar Company
youtube.comPeter Thiel: “Vertical integration is an under-explored modality of technological progress”
“In my mind, there probably are only two broad categories in the entire history of the last 250 years where people have actually come up with new things and made money doing so.”
The first is... See more
Startup Archivex.comLikewise in the Entrepreneurial Age, tech companies don’t own the multitude to which their users belong, yet they exploit it as a strategic resource thanks to the superior design of their applications, the regular and systematic monitoring of their users’ activity, and the increasing returns to scale they derive from networks. It’s not about
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age

Becoming Steve Jobs is the most influential book I have read recently. People think of the demigod that made Apple what it is - but little is known of the 30-year-old that was booted off his board, and then proceeded to spend the next 15 years watching Bill Gates be the darling of the media and industry.
Steve Jobs'... See more

