# weekly reading (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover weekly reading. Page: Feed: --- ## [Weekly Reading – 22nd August 2026](https://onepercentamonth.com/2026/08/22/weekly-reading-22nd-august-2026/) _2026-08-22 · MQDuong · Minh Quang Duong_ Business How Ferrero Makes Millions Of Chocolates In America. Americans’ desire for sweet, the sheer size of the market and the relaxed regulations on processed food and chemicals create a perfect $55 billion opportunity for Ferrero, the maker of many popular sweets such as Nutella, Baby Ruth or Tic Tac. How a Sony Veteran Is \[…\] ## [Weekly Reading – 15th August 2026](https://onepercentamonth.com/2026/08/15/weekly-reading-15th-august-2026/) _2026-08-15 · MQDuong · Minh Quang Duong_ Business How GE CEO Larry Culp pulled off the turnaround of the century. Larry Culp became a CEO at 38 and since he took the helm as CEO, GE has seen its market cap go from $96 billion to a little below $700 billion. His success is touted as one of the remarkable turnaround stories \[ \] ## [Weekly Reading – 8th August 2026](https://onepercentamonth.com/2026/08/08/weekly-reading-8th-august-2026/) _2026-08-09 · MQDuong · Minh Quang Duong_ Business Amtrak s Subtle, Surprising Success. Amtrak is one of those businesses that I would love to see succeed. It has the monopoly on rail and its success would benefit the public tremendously. Personally, I d love love love to be able to take a train ride from Omaha to Kansas so that I d not have to \[ \] ## [Weekly Reading – 1st August 2026](https://onepercentamonth.com/2026/08/01/weekly-reading-1st-august-2026/) _2026-08-01 · MQDuong · Minh Quang Duong_ Business How Airlines Decide Which Plane to Use. Another fascinating about the airline industry. Demand is not the only factor that determines which aircrafts to use. Inside the Meltdown of a Wunderkind’s A.I. Hedge Fund. It is remarkable how an astounding successful hedge fund story had to sell off positions literally overnight to stay alfoat. \[ \] ## [Weekly Reading – 25th July 2026](https://onepercentamonth.com/2026/07/25/weekly-reading-25th-july-2026/) _2026-07-25 · MQDuong · Minh Quang Duong_ Business Costco Gas Pumps Are So Popular the Retailer Is Building Stand-Alone Stations. A smart business move. When there is that much demand, it ll be a waste not to tap into it. As long as members continue to pay, and I know a lot of poeple join the cult just for Costco gas, and as \[ \] ## [Weekly Reading – 18th July 2026](https://onepercentamonth.com/2026/07/18/weekly-reading-18th-july-2026/) _2026-07-18 · MQDuong · Minh Quang Duong_ What I Wrote Last Week Dick s Sporting Goods Announced ScoreCard+. Its Loyalty Program Is Now Unnecessarily Complex Business He Earns $33 an Hour as a Costco Cashier. Now He’s a Millionaire. Costco is a great example of how companies create a winning culture and deliver outstanding customer experience by first treating its employees right. Walmart \[ \] ## [Dick’s Sporting Good Announced ScoreCard+. Its Loyalty Program Is Now Unnecessarily Complex](https://onepercentamonth.com/2026/07/17/dicks-sporting-good-announced-scorecard-its-loyalty-program-is-now-unnecessarily-complex/) _2026-07-17 · MQDuong · Minh Quang Duong_ ScoreCard is Dick s Sporting Good s loyalty program. It s free to join and includes benefit such as 1 point per every dollar spent at Dicks, receipt-free returns, free standard shipping for orders of $49+ and access to member deals/discounts. There is another tier of the program called ScoreCard Gold. Gold benefits include one day when purchases \[ \] ## [How Issuers Make Increasingly Expensive Credit Card Rewards More Affordable](https://onepercentamonth.com/2026/07/12/how-issuers-make-increasingly-expensive-credit-card-rewards-more-affordable/) _2026-07-12 · MQDuong · Minh Quang Duong_ Credit card is a fiercely competitive business. Issuers regularly introduce new products or refreshes with better rewards and more benefits in order to woo customers and keep them loyal. More rewards and benefits mean higher expenses. Here are a few things that issuers do to make the economics tenable: Banking Relationship Bank of America Rewards \[ \] ## [Weekly Reading – 11th July 2026](https://onepercentamonth.com/2026/07/11/weekly-reading-11th-july-2026/) _2026-07-11 · MQDuong · Minh Quang Duong_ Business The Anti-Amazon. This article does a great explaining some of the important differences between Amazon and Costco. However, precisely because of these differences, it is hard to envision Costco becoming and toppling Amazon at its own game. When you purposefully curate SKUs to make sure you have the lowest price on such items, the \[ \] ## [Weekly Reading – 4th July 2026](https://onepercentamonth.com/2026/07/04/weekly-reading-4th-july-2026/) _2026-07-04 · MQDuong · Minh Quang Duong_ What I Wrote Thoughts On Visa-Mastercard Settlement Two Tests To Learn Your Strengths And Weaknesses Business How a Niche Technology Became a Choke Point for A.I. It s remarkable that every analyst and expert agrees that packaging is a choke point and a priority in the AI industry, but the Trump administration doesn t share that opinion. \[ \] ## [profullstack on Ko‑fi (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ud2BDSS0OTke) _2026-07-04 · **Sponsored**_ Open the creator's Ko‑fi page. ## [Two Tests To Learn Your Strengths & Weaknesses](https://onepercentamonth.com/2026/06/29/two-tests-to-learn-your-strengths-weaknesses/) _2026-06-30 · MQDuong · Minh Quang Duong_ I have been working with a performance coach for 7 months now. One thing that I am glad to have done is to take a Clifton Strengths Assessment. It s a test to see a person s talent. Not skills. Talent. It doesn t show if someone is brilliant at coding or baking, but it will show if \[ \] ## [Fuzzy Sequencing: Sometimes close enough is good enough](https://www.omic.ly/fuzzy-sequencing-sometimes-close-enough-is-good-enough/) _2025-07-15 · Brian Krueger · Omic.ly_ DNA is coded by 4 bases, but no one said that's how we have to sequence it. Ready to have your mind bent? ## [Nerve cells transfer their mitochondria to cancer cells](https://www.omic.ly/nerve-cells-transfer-their-mitochondria-to-cancer-cells/) _2025-07-08 · Brian Krueger · Omic.ly_ Just when you thought cancer couldn't get any crazier...neurons can directly transfer their power producing mitochondria to tumor cells ## [The microbiome has more to do with traditional ecology than you might think](https://www.omic.ly/the-microbiome-has-more-to-do-with-traditional-ecology-than-you-might-think/) _2025-07-08 · Brian Krueger · Omic.ly_ Studying the microbiome is really just a lesson in ecology! ## [The most beautiful experiment in biology](https://www.omic.ly/the-most-beautiful-experiment-in-biology-2/) _2025-07-08 · Brian Krueger · Omic.ly_ Watson and Crick solved the structure of DNA and everyone lived happily ever after, right? Wrong. That was just the opening argument. ## [Weekly Reading List: July 7, 2025](https://www.omic.ly/weekly-reading-list-26/) _2025-07-08 · Brian Krueger · Omic.ly_ ’We couldn’t live without it’: the UCSC Genome Browser turns 25 After a quarter of a century, the website remains an essential tool for navigating the genome and understanding its structure, function and clinical impact. The Percentage of Tasks AI Agents Are Currently Failing At May ## [STAMP brings us non-destructive single-cell profiling without the sequencing](https://www.omic.ly/stamp-brings-us-non-destructive-single-cell-profiling-without-the-sequencing/) _2025-07-01 · Brian Krueger · Omic.ly_ No sequencer needed: Imaging based single-cell multiomics ## [So, you want to learn more about your microbiome?](https://www.omic.ly/so-you-want-to-learn-more-about-your-microbiome/) _2025-07-01 · Brian Krueger · Omic.ly_ Microbiomes are complicated and if you want to understand them you better start with good data ## [What did Watson and Crick actually discover?](https://www.omic.ly/what-did-watson-and-crick-actually-discover/) _2025-07-01 · Brian Krueger · Omic.ly_ History is written by victors, and that statement couldn't be more true than it is in the case of Watson and Crick's 'discovery' of the DNA double helix. ## [Weekly Reading List: June 30,2025](https://www.omic.ly/weekly-reading-list-june-30-2025/) _2025-07-01 · Brian Krueger · Omic.ly_ Palm Beach Gardens Man wants to revive disgraced Theranos brand A local inventor is trying to make a name for himself in a rather unusual way. Eric Green was the first institute director forced out of NIH. He still hasn’t been told why Eric Green said the process ## [AI Summaries & Audio Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/fjf5dvpmbeVm) _2025-07-01 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to concise audio briefings for the latest stories. ## [Loss of Y could be helping to make tumors in men more aggressive](https://www.omic.ly/loss-of-y-could-be-helping-to-make-tumors-in-men-more-aggressive/) _2025-06-24 · Brian Krueger · Omic.ly_ Who needs a Y chromosome anyway? Losing it could be making tumors in men more aggressive ## [When Prophecy Fails](https://kevinbaker.substack.com/p/irregex-reading-list-20241024) _2024-10-25 · Kevin Baker · Irregular Expressions_ Irregex Doomsday Edition ## [~/irregex Reading List \[2024/09/27\]](https://kevinbaker.substack.com/p/irregex-reading-list-20240927) _2024-09-27 · Kevin Baker · Irregular Expressions_ Books: