Author Archives: Andrew

Big Short writer spent six months with SBF $220,000 for Steve Jobs’ Birkenstocks ASX $250 million blockchain writedown

Sean Combs acquires cannabis assets in deal worth up to $185 million Tyler Cowen has the best takes on Goodfellows Prison gang cartel proxy wars in Ecuador $8,000 a year cheap flights newsletter Mark’s vision (2015)

Mozilla study finds user attempts to influence YouTube algorithm ineffective Breath work may work as well as blood pressure medications The $100 million Google and Facebook invoice scam New York’s convict first approach to cannabis legalization  Australian animal shelters overflowing with lockdown pets

Almost a quarter of SEC whistleblower awards go to clients represented by law firms with at least one ex SEC official on the payroll per the WSJ. It is a surprise to learn that offering people eight figure payouts to snitch on their companies creates perverse incentives.

There has been plenty of snark about the Meta rebrand.

Malta has the fastest growing population of any country.

Vladimir Putin on woke culture. Update 14/4/22: Ironic that a of a video of Putin criticising woke culture is blocked.

Costs roughly 10x cocaine per gram Less associated with Escobar etc? Status symbol, Veblen good? Reggaeton/trap influence? In depth analysis by InsightCrime

I couldn’t have timed my $FB investment any better. Some thoughts: Haugen will likely get a better deal than Assange and Snowden Think of the children! 40% said they felt better using Instagram Opportunistic seems as good an adjective as brave The story is overblown but I will probably hold off on buying more stock […]

Not investment advice. Marketplace has many multiples the monthly active users of eBay Shops combined with Marketplace could squeeze out Amazon and Shopify Digital products are increasingly important and Oculus is awesome Probably trades at a discount due to recent bad press (old media jealous) P/E ratio lower than the rest of FAANG, Nike, Disney […]