Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading 13th/14th Dec 2025
The Last Human Edge by Dom Cooke
“In its shift to streaming, Netflix was moving to a fixed-cost model. In this new world, it had to write massive upfront checks to Discovery and Disney for content. It was also investing in original programming that hadn’t launched yet. The capital requirements were enormous. If subscribers kept canceling, the business would run out of cash.” …
“Hitler’s Vienna, though, included none of these wonders. For the future German dictator, the imperial capital was a place of personal isolation, social exclusion, homelessness, and starvation. We know very little else about it. Mein Kampf is less an autobiography in any true sense than an instrumental, myth-making construction intended to speed its author’s rise to power…”
Foundations: My 1999 and part of 2000 by Michael Burry
“.As a resident physician making $33,000 a year, and owing about $150,000 in medical school debt, I saw the environment in Palo Alto then as crazy rich, fast-paced, electric. Kids younger than me were driving Porsches, the restaurants were always full, people everywhere were clearly happy and living well. It was nice. I was not too jealous...”
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What does it do?
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Who it’s for?
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Qs?
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