Links - April 24, 2017
It has been a linkless month, so here’s a brain dump.
- 2016 Letter to Shareholders, Amazon Jeff Bezos - SEC.gov
- Solving the Water Jug Problem from Die Hard 3 with TLA+ and Hypothesis Nicholas Chammas - Into The Light
- The Accident No One Talked About Jessica Ciencin Henriquez - The New York Times
- Climbing the wrong hill Chris Dixon
- Amex, Challenged by Chase, Is Losing the Snob War Charles Duhigg - The New York Times
- Cars and second order consequences Benedict Evans
- Planning is Guessing Jason Fried - Signal v. Noise
- Obamacare: The Republican Waterloo David Frum - The Atlantic
- LEGO Macintosh Classic with e‑paper display Jannis Hermanns
- Alec Baldwin Gets Under Trump’s Skin Chris Jones - The Atlantic
- Dole Food Had Too Many Shares Matt Levine - Bloomberg View
- The Kekulé Problem Cormac McCarthy - Nautilus
- The welfare state in the age of globalization Branko Milanovic - Global Inequality
- Love in the Time of Cryptography Quinn Norton - Backchannel
- Kellyanne Conway Is a Star Olivia Nuzzi - New York Magazine
- Want to rescue rural America? Bust monopolies. Lillian Salerno - The Washington Post
- The Whale – 500ish Words M.G. Siegler - 500ish
See also, The Squid.
- It’s a Ruse: Tax Cuts Can’t be Financed by Reducing Government Waste Mark Thoma - The Fiscal Times
- Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined Landon Thomas Jr. - The New York TImes
- The Walt Mossberg Brand Ben Thompson - Stratechery
- Venture Capital is a Capacity Industry with Boom and Bust Cycles Albert Wenger - Continuations
- Jason Barr on Building the Skyline and the Economics of Skyscrapers EconTalk
- Vanessa Williamson on Taxes and Read My Lips EconTalk
- Tax Hero Planet Money
- The Holiday Industrial Complex Planet Money
- The Other Mr. President This American Life
- The Architect of Hollywood 99% Invisible