# drops today — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover drops today. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Two Pillars Under Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS): An Update](https://aet1998.substack.com/p/the-two-pillars-under-amazon-supply) _2026-06-12 · Signals & Switches · Signals & Switches_ Armstrong and Associates just published the 2025 rankings. Amazon is the world's largest 3PL. By a factor of five. Before ASCS launched. And what twenty-three earnings calls didn't say. ## [Knowledge Transfer Always Meant the Door](https://aet1998.substack.com/p/knowledge-transfer-always-meant-the) _2026-06-10 · Signals & Switches · Signals & Switches_ For most of my career it meant you were on your way out. Prompting is the first version that runs the other way. ## [Carpe Diem](https://aet1998.substack.com/p/carpe-diem) _2026-05-28 · Signals & Switches · Signals & Switches_ The FMC just fined Maersk $1.9 million. The fine is the least interesting thing about it. ## [The Cage the Railroads Built](https://aet1998.substack.com/p/thirty-years-of-saying-growth) _2026-05-19 · Signals & Switches_ A panel of retired rail CEOs at MSU's Broad School said the industry needs to grow. The thirty-year analyst record says they're not wrong. The structural reason nothing changes is worse than that. ## [What the Architecture Eats: An Update](https://aet1998.substack.com/p/what-the-architecture-eats-an-update) _2026-05-04 · Signals & Switches · Signals & Switches_ What Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS) does to steamship lines, NVOCCs, IMCs, railroads, and CPG procurement ## [Et Tu, Donald?](https://aet1998.substack.com/p/et-tu-donald) _2026-04-22 · Signals & Switches · Signals & Switches_ The political bet just failed for United. What does that mean for Union Pacific/Norfolk Southern merger? ## [The Path Back](https://aet1998.substack.com/p/the-path-back) _2026-04-16 · Signals & Switches · Signals & Switches_ The commercial case is made. This piece is for the people who have to act on it. ## [Part Four drops today — this is the one for operators](https://aet1998.substack.com/p/part-four-drops-today-this-is-the) _2026-04-16 · Signals & Switches · Signals & Switches_ A note to all Signals & Switches subscribers ## [2.5% a Year. Twenty Years. Part Three: The Size of the Gap](https://aet1998.substack.com/p/25-a-year-twenty-years-part-three) _2026-04-14 · Signals & Switches · Signals & Switches_ The diagnosis is complete. Now — who the actual customers are, why the railroad’s defense doesn’t hold, and the three structural paths back. ## [Part Three drops today — the stakes are larger than they look](https://aet1998.substack.com/p/part-three-drops-today-the-stakes) _2026-04-14 · Signals & Switches · Signals & Switches_ A note to all Signals & Switches subscribers ## [PixelRift — Platforming with Level Editor (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZyE0736GXWdk) _2026-04-14 · **Sponsored**_ Includes a built-in level editor, campaign with elemental heroes, and boss encounters. ## [2.5% a Year. Twenty Years. Is That Enough?](https://aet1998.substack.com/p/25-a-year-twenty-years-is-that-enough) _2026-04-09 · Signals & Switches · Signals & Switches_ Twenty years. 2.5% a year. And the question nobody in railroad commercial leadership wants to answer. ## [Part Two drops today — and the timing couldn’t be better](https://aet1998.substack.com/p/part-two-drops-today-and-the-timing) _2026-04-09 · Signals & Switches · Signals & Switches_ Part Two drops today — and the timing couldn’t be better ## [The Dotted Line to Your Own Customers](https://aet1998.substack.com/p/the-dotted-line-to-your-own-customers) _2026-04-07 · Signals & Switches · Signals & Switches_ Every business that routes through an intermediary for convenience eventually discovers the intermediary owns the customer. Here is what forty years of that looks like. ## [Amazon Knows. You Don’t. Here’s Why That’s Not an Accident.](https://aet1998.substack.com/p/amazon-knows-you-dont-heres-why-thats) _2026-03-31 · Signals & Switches · Signals & Switches_ The USPS story isn’t about the Post Office. It’s about who controls the data — and what happens when they don’t need you anymore. ## [The Bookstore on the Third Floor](https://aet1998.substack.com/p/the-bookstore-on-the-third-floor) _2026-03-27 · Signals & Switches · Signals & Switches_ Hong Kong was the freest place I ever stood. I didn't fully understand that until it wasn't. ## [You’re Buying an AI Bot.](https://aet1998.substack.com/p/youre-buying-an-ai-bot) _2026-03-24 · Signals & Switches_ Do You Have Any Idea What It Actually Costs? ## [Who Controls the Boats: Amazon Just Proved What Comes Next](https://aet1998.substack.com/p/who-controls-the-boats-amazon-just) _2026-03-18 · Signals & Switches_ Addendum To Signals & Switches of March 16 ## [Who Controls the Boats](https://aet1998.substack.com/p/who-controls-the-boats) _2026-03-16 · Signals & Switches · Signals & Switches_ ONE's Seaspan stake is the TTX play that nobody in container shipping is talking about ## [API and EDI for Dummies (Including Me)](https://aet1998.substack.com/p/api-and-edi-for-dummies-including) _2026-02-16 · Signals & Switches · Signals & Switches_ Why the most important technology question in freight belongs in the boardroom, not the server room ## [Real SIMs for AI Agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/pGYKyhw3NLtW) _2026-02-16 · **Sponsored**_ Pass 2FA and verifications with real carrier numbers via our API. ## [100,000 Jobs. Zero Algorithms.](https://aet1998.substack.com/p/100000-jobs-zero-algorithms) _2026-02-09 · Signals & Switches · Signals & Switches_ Freight isn’t Silicon Valley. The reasons for these cuts are older than any algorithm.