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The Indonesian Economic Illusion
Why Centralized Control Is Eroding Real Growth
How Great Investors Design for Being Wrong
Every strategy carries an implicit theory of what being wrong means, and the durable ones make that theory explicit before the money is at risk.
The Label Is Part of the Food
Why Ultra-Processed Products Are About More Than Processing
The Wrong Yardstick
In the spring of 2004 I had a friend, I’ll call him Daniel, who did everything right.
The Sabotage Economy
How Infrastructure Failure Became a Multi-Billion Rand Industry in South Africa
The Real Reason South Korea’s Youth Stopped Dating
How Housing, Conscription, and Economic Risk Weaponized the Gender Gap
The World Is Running Out of Cheap Chocolate
For much of the last century, the chocolate business created value by putting distance between the cacao tree and the chocolate bar.
The Collapse of Measurement Latency
How Real-Time Analytics and Prediction Markets Are Redefining Modern Media and Speech
The Strong State’s Secret Is the Right to Say No
Governments are becoming faster, more centralized, and more automated.
The Band That Thrived on Being Hated
In November 2011 a University of Michigan graduate student named Dennis Guttman decided that Nickelback had no business representing Detroit.
The Industrial Policy Trap
How Semiconductor Subsidies Deepened the State’s Dependence on Monopoly Tech