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