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The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds
6,146 words | 22 minutes | Sunday 10pm | Favourited
Before Risk, before Dungeons & Dragons, before Magic: The Gathering, there was Diplomacy. One writer enters international competition to play the world-conquering game that redefines what it means to be a geek (and a person). It was the summer of 1909. I was on the south coast of Spain.
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Jack Dorsey Has No Clue What He Wants
4,915 words | 17 minutes | Friday 7pm | Favourited
A conversation with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey can be incredibly disorienting. Not because he’s particularly clever or thought-provoking, but because he sounds like he should be. He takes long pauses before he speaks.
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If True, This Could Be One of the Greatest Discoveries in Human History
39 words | 1 minute | Sunday 10pm | Favourited
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AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source
2,600 words | 9 minutes | Monday 5pm
In 1999, music industry revenue in the United States peaked at $14.6 billion (all numbers are from the RIAA). It is important to be precise, though, about what was being sold:
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Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme—Right?
1,519 words | 5 minutes | Friday 7pm
If you use social media, you've probably noticed a trend across Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter of people posting their then-and-now profile pictures, mostly from 10 years ago and this year. My flippant tweet began to pick up traction.
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The 2018 Stratechery Year in Review
1,051 words | 3 minutes | Sunday 10pm
In last year’s Stratechery Year in Review I noted that the predominant theme was the impact of tech on society; perhaps unsurprisingly, the dominant theme in 2018 was tech and regulation.
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The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Phenomenon, Ninja’s 2018, Facebook and the Human Condition
580 words | 2 minutes | Sunday 8am
Stratechery.com is supported by subscriptions to the Daily Update. The Daily Update consists of substantial analysis of the news of the day (~1800 words) delivered via three daily emails in addition to the free weekly article (four total articles per week).
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MongoDB Follow-up, AWS’ Incentives, Batteries: The iPhone’s Missing Miss
580 words | 2 minutes | Tuesday 4pm
Stratechery.com is supported by subscriptions to the Daily Update. The Daily Update consists of substantial analysis of the news of the day (~1800 words) delivered via three daily emails in addition to the free weekly article (four total articles per week).
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life online in China, Russia, Cuba and India
428 words | 1 minute | Sunday 8am
What’s it like in Cuba? In Cuba, internet access is limited. But if you can’t get to the internet, there are ways of bringing it physically to you.
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Exponent Podcast: A Significant Shift
18 words | 1 minute | Sunday 8am
On Exponent, the weekly podcast I host with James Allworth, we discuss Apple’s Errors. Listen to it here.