The Amazon Tax Ben Thompson - Stratechery An extremely bullish case from a former Amazon bear. Ben’s writing is usually great, but this one takes the prize for clarity: connecting the dots from Bezos’ famous letter to shareholders in 1997 to the beginnings of AWS in 2006, to today. A must read.
Ping21: Earn Bitcoin by Monitoring Uptime and Latency Tyler Pate, Andrew DeSantis, Eli Haims, David Harding, and Balaji S. Srinivasan - Medium Very seriously considering buying one of these. Seems like the investment would pay for itself with a few hours of tinkering.
Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet Amy Harmon - The New York Times An interesting account of incentives at work. Nobel prize winners, and other already well-known scientist, do not care about the prestige of the important journals, so they get to publish directly. Young, unknown, scientists on the other hand, are stuck with the old, considerably inferior, publishing system to prove their worth.
The Changing Value Of ARR Alex Wilhelm - Mattermark On one hand, the article makes good use of historical data to make a clear point: SaaS has been hit hard by the markets, both public and private. On the other hand, the URL makes good use of pirate jokes.
The macabre truth of gun control in the US is that toddlers kill more people than terrorists do Lindy West - The Guardian Some things about this country are still baffling to me.