Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 26th/27th Aug 2023
How Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, and Andreessen—Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs—Are Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality. by Jonathan Taplin
“Indeed, they are American oligarchs, controlling online access for billions of users on Facebook, Twitter, Threads, Instagram, and WhatsApp, including 80 percent of the US population. Moreover, from the outside, they appear to be more interested in replacing our current reality—and our economic system, imperfect as it is—with something far more opaque, concentrated, and unaccountable, which, if it comes to pass, they will control ...”
Paying Attention by Morgan Housel
“I read newspapers and books every day. I can not recall one thing I read in a newspaper from, say, 2011. But I can tell you details about a few great books I read in 2011 and how they changed how I think. I’ll remember them forever. I’ll keep reading newspapers. But if I read more books I’d probably develop better filters and frameworks that would help me make better sense of the news …”
Winners Take None:” Coworking, Self Storage, Scooters Have Burned Billions of Investor Dollars and Maybe Were Never ‘Tech Companies’ by HunterWALK
“As a venture investor, these are especially painful because they fail slow, burning a lot of capital and time and hope along the way. Early in Homebrew’s existence, we had a mini Winner Take None in the consumer/SMB shipping space, so I’ve got some familiarity with these situations and don’t mean to just throw stones at others …”
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