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An influential paper examining early YouTube creators and digital labor in the video game industry, exploring how platform architecture structures user-generated production.
An insightful book analyzing the rise of personal branding and the commodification of self-expression on social media, where authenticity becomes a key economic resource.
The classic 10-factor framework for evaluating marketplace quality, structural advantages, and long-term durability.
Proposes the orthogonality thesis and instrumental convergence, explaining how superintelligent AGI would behave economically and resource-wise.
A classic deep-dive on Apple's first custom-designed ARM CPU core (Swift) inside the A6 SoC, examining how Apple's architectural design choice marked a major shift towards vertical silicon integration.
A startup is defined entirely by rapid growth, which acts as a compass for every business and execution decision.
Discusses the economics and likelihood of an intelligence explosion, outlining the potential transition from narrow AI to artificial general intelligence.
An influential cryptographic analysis by famed cryptographer Adi Shamir, dissecting the structural characteristics and flow of the complete decentralized ledger.
Bundling products aggregates customer willingness-to-pay, reducing valuation variance and creating surplus for both sellers and buyers.
A foundational, long-form essay outlining the challenges of creating friendly superintelligence and the unprecedented economic and existential stakes involved.
Details how single-purpose mobile applications are chipping away at multi-feature web giants by focusing on superior user experiences and native mobile capabilities.
Reflects on how large platforms and networks matured in the consumer web era and began dominating attention and monetization.
Demonstrates the scaling limit of sub-10 nm carbon nanotube transistors, proving they can outperform conventional silicon transistors at extremely scaled dimensions.
An essential book exploring how tech and media workers accept economic risk as a personal brand strategy, laying the conceptual groundwork for understanding modern creator entrepreneurship.
Applies disruption theory to Microsoft's Surface and the PC-to-mobile transition through a business-model lens.
Josh Breinlinger outlines the key performance indicators for marketplaces, detailing metrics to measure liquidity, transaction volume, and user engagement across both supply and demand sides.
A legendary, extremely comprehensive technical deep-dive into Intel's Haswell architecture, focusing on the power-efficiency microarchitectural changes Intel made to defend its PC and server territories against mobile...
Introduces the use of Bitcoin's decentralized ledger for public commitment schemes, demonstrating cryptographic utility beyond a simple medium of exchange.
Demonstrates that networks of memristive devices can solve maze-routing and shortest-path problems dynamically, highlighting the power of non-von Neumann memristive computing.
Six decades into the computer revolution, software is rewriting the rules of every traditional industry by leveraging global internet scale and zero marginal distribution costs.
A seminal, early narrative piece exploring the cypherpunk origins, decentralized design, and wild early market bubbles of Bitcoin.
Fred Wilson discusses the fundamentals of network effects, defining how user engagement and density drive value in platform businesses.
An influential analysis mapping the public transaction graph to evaluate and challenge the assumption of total anonymity in decentralized ledgers.
An analysis of why human cognitive enhancement is difficult due to evolutionary trade-offs, with profound implications for how artificial intelligence will bypass biological limits.