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 - 500ishSee 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