Welcome to BIG, a newsletter on the politics of monopoly power. If you’d like to sign up to receive issues over email, you can do so here. Google just lost its first antitrust trial, as a San Francisco jury returned a decision that Google harmed rival Epic Games, maker of the popular video game Fortnite, in the $48 billion dollar app store Android market…

As formerly (thankfully!) striking writers justifiably emphasized, AI is transforming Hollywood. It already has. The major streaming services have long used artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance overall viewing experiences, accelerating cord cutting – and fundamentally transforming Hollywood economics - in the …

Next Week in The Sequence: Edge 329: The second installment of our series about fine-tuning covers the different types of fine-tuning methods, MIT’s research around multi-task prompt tuning and the Lamini platform. Edge 330: We discuss DSPy, a new language model programming framework that represents an alternative to LangChain an…

I have just got back from an epic month of travelling. I have been to Trinec in the Czech Republic twice, flying into Katovice and then Krakow airports, and then driving two hours. Its the first t…

Members, Just a quick tactical note. This will be informal and concise. About 2 Months ago during the SVB crisis back in March, I found opportunities to help our folks here to take advantage of tactical disloc…

We took part in a quick rapid fire interview with Larry Cheung, CFA covering AI, geopolitics, financial markets, and other areas we frequently speak about. Larry Cheung is a CFA Charterholder, professional Investment Strategist, and the Author of one of Substack's most popular finance newsletters called "Letters from Larry: U.S. & China Investment Strategy." In this ne…

The Best Buy PS5 restock date and time in July 2022 will come to you via my PS5 restock Twitter tracker – follow and turn on notifications. That’s because I’m now tracking where and when the PlayStation 5 is in stock at retailers in the US, including Best Buy, where there has been a PS5 restock nationwide once in July. Now that demand for the Sony cons…

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Hey, it’s great to have you. My first week back in NYC has been crazy in a good way - I feel alive. The pro’s of getting to catch up with people, motivational atmosphere, and convenience more then make up for living near Times Square as a light sleeper

Hey there! Thanks for opening this up. After spending a few days with my family in New Jersey over July 4th weekend, it’s good to be back in action; however, I’d prefer not to have things go from zero to one hundred during these context switches - relaxing and not doing much while off and grinding like crazy while on.

Hey there! Thanks for opening this up. No writing from me this time, just curation, but also a bit of tidying up - when you have stuff (notes, writing, social media posts) all over the place, things get lost. The newsletter here is then a way to document what I care about, hence the subtitle of this issue. Did a bit more analysis this time around, sort o…

Hey, it’s great to have you. I’m back in suburban NJ - what a trip! Now it’s time to wrap up some things to hit the ground running in the new year. I’m eager to put some plans into action. Hope you are enjoying these last peaceful days of 2020. In This Letter:

Hey, it’s great to have you. There’s so much going on right now - an intense time! I’m trying to focus my efforts on three areas: Experimenting with e-commerce Creating content on consumer tech strategy Improving my Chinese To make room for doing all of this at the same time, I’ve carved out a chuck of my day for each; hopefully I’ll be able to continue chu…

11/3 Daily Comic I often wake up after a night of drinking and try to go back and piece together the hazy bits of information I’ve retained into a coherent narrative. I smile and shake my head, wondering why in the hell I’d said X to person Y or jumped on surface Z while screaming ASDSGDF123FDS.

Welcome to the latest edition of The Social Media Report, a review of the week’s developments in technology, digital and social media. In this edition we take a look at social media trends for the year ahead, Facebook’s latest community standards data, and a rundown of my must reads from this week.

Some of you have been dying for Pittsburgh Steelers content (okay really just one of you) but I didn’t feel the need to write about them. Until now. The Steelers took on the Washington Football Team on Monday afternoon in a game that was postponed because of the Steelers-Ravens game postponement the week before. Pittsburgh entered Monday’s game 11-0 whi…

Welcome to the In The Chips with Barry previews email for the week of 12/7. Let’s get in the chips, shall we? Arnott’s Shapes Variety Pack Yes, sent all the way from Australia by the good folks at Treats From Oz, it’s a snack called “Shapes.” I’m not going to lie, that is not the most imaginative name but then again I don’t taste the name so we’ll leave i…

“I have a partner that is experiencing Depression medication triggered ED. He's expressing concern that our relationship will end because of it. I've reiterated that i'm here for him and still satisfied whatever the sexual structure is (sex is great but i'm really into the company the most). Is there any general advice that you can give in helping peopl…

Dear Friends, Episode #29 of the Logos Broadcast is a bit different from the last few weeks… Fr. Michael Kelleher was born in County Limerick in 1941, ordained as a priest in 1965, and ministered to the people of the Catholic Diocese of Biloxi for fifty five years.

My company was absolutely crushing it by most standards, but I was stuck there. Tough pill to swallow… I had an “if it needs done, just fucking do it” mentality. This actually got me pretty far, but lead me to brick wall - hard and fast. I reached the max capacity of what I could do “on my own” with a limited team &iIn one sudden moment a realization dev…

In the summer of 2019, Manchester United were linked with moves for two midfielders to fill the void that the team, much like the UK government, had at number 10. It would’ve seemed just as impossibl…

There is this toy that our twin boys have at home. When we first get it, they will fight over it. One will not want to leave it for the other. We often have to intervene for peace to reign. But I noticed with time that the toy that was once the reason for contention no longer holds their attention. They got bored with it. Children need to be constantly s…

Happy Saturday everyone! Can you believe that it’s already December? Time to get started on those New Year Resolutions! Anyway, what happened this week in the finance, tech, and startup world? 🌎

While some nations are dithering on reforming investment and banking laws which are impediments for the new technology - or actively hostile towards crypto - others are taking the lead. Smart countries are establishing tax laws that encourage cryptocurrency use and trade, and many of the countries already known for pro-privacy, pro-investment financial …

You have to stop restricting your diet. Desire comes from lack. Let’s say you love doughnuts. What do you think will happen if you tell yourself that you cannot have doughnuts, like, ever? You’re going to want the doughnuts even more! You do without them for a while, but one day - days, weeks, months, or years from no…