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2025 2

  1. Is SOC2 the new tech protection racket?
  2. The Boring AI Questions That Actually Matter

2024 1

  1. Technology and Grieving

2023 4

  1. SVB and the Wealth Creation Flywheel
  2. Fad or Trend
  3. Alexa, what happened?
  4. Google vs. ChatGPT told by aglio e olio

2022 8

  1. FTX and How to Lose Money
  2. Shein and the Tech Cold War
  3. Why are maps so hard to make?
  4. Late Stage Prisoners Dilemma
  5. Elon's Giant Package
  6. 9.2% and the Master of Twitter
  7. Robinhood and Democracy Promotion
  8. Who is Web3 Really Good for?

2021 16

  1. Peloton, Valuations, and Innovation
  2. The Teenager Economy
  3. Memestocks and Reddit redesigns
  4. Advertising Stagflation
  5. Ape Armies and Investor Relations
  6. Grift is Good
  7. Cathie Wood and Content Strategy
  8. Bitcoin and Buying Things
  9. Who Gets a Slice of Apple’s Pie?
  10. Joke Capital
  11. Game. Stop.
  12. Everything is content now
  13. Goodbye 2010s: techno-optimism edition
  14. Farewell to the Frictionless President
  15. The first phygital coup
  16. Silicon Valley's China Envy

2020 75

  1. Quarantine Consumerism Cliché Gift Guide
  2. ☁️Do clouds pay taxes?
  3. The Internet is for Porn
  4. Exasperated Exuberance
  5. Twitter's Fleeting Product Roadmap
  6. Chinese Chicken Fingers 🐓 and the American Dream 🇺🇸
  7. Substack got lucky, and so did Margins
  8. DoorDash and Societal Arbitrage
  9. Technology for Humans
  10. A few election morning thoughts
  11. Facebook is censoring me
  12. Brave New Facebook
  13. Thinking and Feeling - How to read the news
  14. All politics is bad, says Coinbase
  15. TikTok and the new American capitalism
  16. Links on the Margins — September 11th
  17. SoftBank, Robinhood and a Margins Singularity
  18. Lobster Links on the Margins - Sept 4th
  19. Facebook, The PR Firm
  20. Links on the Margins — August 27th
  21. Is WFH affecting the S&P?
  22. Links on the Margins - Aug 20th
  23. The Other Digital Divide
  24. Links on the Margins — August 12
  25. Twitter, George Soros, and Porn
  26. Links on the Margins - Aug 6th
  27. Chuck Norris and Hacking Twitter
  28. TikTok, the Facebook Competitor?
  29. Robinhood and How to Lose Money
  30. Links on the Margins - July 17th
  31. The International Student Bait-and-Switch
  32. Uber + Postmates = An All-Stock No-Brainer
  33. Links on the Margins — June 26th
  34. Amazon Private Labels and Antitrust
  35. Links on the Margins - June 17th, 2020
  36. The Silicon Oligarchy
  37. Facebook and Humans
  38. Links on the Margins - May 28th, 2020
  39. Software will eat software in a remote-first world
  40. Links on the Margins - May 21st, 2020
  41. Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
  42. Links on the Margins - May 14th
  43. Links on the Margins - May 7th, 2020
  44. How Silicon Valley is not like Wall Street
  45. Links on the Margins - April 30th
  46. Are billionaires bad?
  47. Links on the Margins - April 22nd
  48. Invisible infrastructure and the ethics of delivery
  49. Links on the Margins - April 15th
  50. Science, how does it work?
  51. Links on the Margins - April 8th
  52. The CARES Act, Amazon, and Labor Supply
  53. Links on the Margins - April 2nd
  54. Links on the Margins (March 25)
  55. COVID-19 and Managing Risk
  56. Links on the Margins (March 18th)
  57. A place to not just live, but breathe
  58. Links on the Margins (March 10)
  59. ZIRP explains the world
  60. 🎂 Margins Turns 1
  61. Are job interviews a farce?
  62. The risk of distributing risk
  63. Shopping on Amazon Sucks Now
  64. Reality TV Won
  65. Focus is for winners
  66. Democrats and The Information Tsunami
  67. 🧟 The Zombie Apocalypse Scale
  68. the Margins guide to understanding online conflict
  69. America, trust in monopolies, and SERPs
  70. The Flywheel of Identity
  71. Is the media too tough on tech?
  72. Facebook's PR feels broken
  73. Venture backed atoms
  74. Readers and Writing.
  75. Do you even science, bro?

2019 79

  1. What We Got Wrong in 2019
  2. Trust, OpenAI & The NYT Opinion Section
  3. Pig Irons at the 'Plex
  4. That Photo
  5. In defense of biometrics
  6. Innovation and the 2010s
  7. Tech, Meet the Humans
  8. Thanksgiving Week Link Dump #2 of 2 - Food Writing Edition
  9. Thanksgiving Week Link Dump - #1 of 2
  10. What Happened to Recycling?
  11. Brand Hijacking and Amazon's China Strategy
  12. Gatekeepers gonna gatekeep
  13. SoftBank and The Dong
  14. Airbnb and the Markets
  15. Gawker, Trump and Checks & Balances
  16. App got your data?
  17. Data Breaches are now Growth Hacks: Zappos Edition
  18. Jokes. You invented bad jokes.
  19. Magic Leap, AirPods & Digital Layers
  20. The Magic Rectangles on the Old Web
  21. Remembering and Forgetting Music
  22. Pick your side because the NBA picked theirs
  23. Mark Zuckerberg and Existential Threats
  24. Please Make Money.
  25. Introducing Userless
  26. The Conflict is the Point
  27. Empathy on The Margins
  28. Lil Miquela & the Blockchain Dress
  29. The Climate Change of the Abandoned Internet
  30. An Ode to Privacy Normalcy
  31. Peloton bikes are the real deal
  32. Big companies won't fix their bugs
  33. Popeyes & Private Equity
  34. Welcome back, San Francisco
  35. WeWork and the 2010s
  36. Everything is a tech company now.
  37. 3 Thoughts on Cars
  38. The Illusion of Zero Marginal Costs
  39. The Margins' 5 Point Plan to Fix Social Media
  40. You should delete your tweets
  41. Speaking to Robots
  42. Is your data yours?
  43. The Rule of 140
  44. Software Eats Itself
  45. Superhuman and Human-Scale Media
  46. Summer Reading
  47. Parenthood and Instagram Ads
  48. Robinhood and the Limits of Innovation
  49. Slack and the Art of Subscription Management
  50. Rise and Waterfall of Apple Maps
  51. The Rise of Distributed Teams
  52. Apple enters the identity ring
  53. Dear Vox Media. Move to Vimeo.
  54. Is Racism Good Business for Twitter?
  55. The Sweetgreen-ification of Society
  56. Is Fake News spam?
  57. The Next Great Insight™
  58. WhatsApp too gets hacked.
  59. America's GDPR
  60. No surge pricing for $UBER
  61. TikTok and Tariffs
  62. Who controls the internet?
  63. Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain
  64. What’s in a username?
  65. Rotten Tomatoes and Review Inflation
  66. The Cloud in your Pocket
  67. Digital Exhaust: The Forgotten Internet
  68. Service Oriented What Again?
  69. Identity is the low-hanging fruit
  70. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Startup Options
  71. Oligopolies, algorithms and your money
  72. On Global Accountability
  73. Venmo Robberies and the Apple Credit Card
  74. The Secret Liabilities of Data
  75. How Walgreens enabled Theranos
  76. Spotify does taxes.
  77. Affiliate Links and Antitrust
  78. Zuck pens another memo.
  79. Welcome to The Margins