Blog AF

My apoligies for the lack of links on Friday. Hopefully today’s set makes up for that.

• Platforms, distribution and audience
  Benedict Evans
  
• Connect the dots
  Exponent (Podcast)
  
• Jeb Bush's Claims and Reality
  Mark Thoma
  
• Stupid Apps and Changing the World
  Sam Altman
  
• Paradoxes of Control
  Chris Dillow
  
• The Next Thirty Years
  David Warsh
  
• Why I Fucking Hate Unicorns and the Culture They Breed
  Mark Suster
  
• The Risk of a Billion-Dollar Valuation in Silicon Valley
  Andrew Ross Sorkin - NYT
  
• Experience: I mine for 100-year-old jeans
  Michael Allen Harris - The Guardian
  
• What shape is the internet?
  Noah Veltman
  

• Disconfirming e-Books
  Ben Thompson - Stratechery
  
• Is it ethical to sell complimentary copies of textbooks?
  Frances Woolley
  
• What Happens Next Will Amaze You
  Maciej Cegłowski
  
• A Sweet Surprise Awaits You
  99% Invisible (Podcast)
  
• Darkode
  Radiolab (Podcast)
  
• The Strange Economics Of Open-Source Software
  Phillip O'Toole
  

I am amazed by the fact that Caltrain ridership tracks the Nasdaq. This is the kind of relationship that I would never think about on my own, but once I read it, it clicked and makes perfect sense. I wonder if similar correlations can be found for other cities and their public transit.

• Silicon Valley’s Economic Indicator: Caltrain Ridership
  Georgia Wells - WSJ
  
• How Econ Got Crime and Punishment Wrong
  Noah Smith - Bloomberg View
  
• Religions Are What People Make Them
  Paul Krugman - NYT
  
• Rate Rage in 1932
  Paul Krugman - NYT
  
• Across the USA by Train for Just $213
  Derek Low
  

• The Salmon Taboo
  Planet Money (Podcast)
  
• Unit Economics
  Sam Altman
  
• The Rage of the Bankers
  Paul Krugman - NYT
  

I can’t recommend Gopnik’s article enough. It is a really interesting read about history, faith, and human life. If you read any online article today, this should be it.

• How an 18th-Century Philosopher Helped Solve My Midlife Crisis
  Alison Gopnik - The Atlantic
  
• Apple, Google, and Microsoft are all solving the same problems
  Vlad Savov - The Verge
  
• The Night They Drove the Price of Electricity Down
  Daniel Gross - Slate
  
• The Death of the Party
  Teddy Wayne - NYT