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Platformonomics TGIF #137: August 7, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Summer is flying by… News Useful Idiots, Fellow Travelers and Unregistered Foreign Agents: Oracle We’ve written at length about the financial risks of Oracle’s Hail Mary scramble…
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From an Undisclosed Location
Somewhere, the team of guards that has been keeping Scott McNealy gagged and under lock and key in recent years has been doubled and they’ve taken to sedating him to ensure he doesn’t pop off about the prospect of IBM buying Sun and perhaps prevent Sun from being put out of their (and our) misery…
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Book Review: Daemon – Daniel Suarez
Daniel Suarez’s Daemon is a kick in the head akin to Neuromancer or Snow Crash. But unlike those two, it is set in essentially the present day and can be realized with today’s technology or close to it. Prepare to open your eyes to a whole new vector of malevolent computing. No doubt the book…
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Pre-Reading for the Apocalypse
Hopefully these are contrarian indicators: Social Collapse Best Practices – Dmitry Orlov (podcast)Lessons from the USSR. Wall Street on the Tundra – Michael Lewis The making of Reykjavík-on-Reykjavík. Buy Farmland – Jim Rogers “We’re still going to eat, probably.” The Forgotten Man – Amity Schlaes Making the Great Depression great. Global Catastrophic Risks – Martin…
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Math as a Service
DreamBox Learning just launched with a K-2 math curriculum. While most educational software leaves something to be desired, DreamBox provides deep and individualized instruction that kids actually find fun. My kids have been beta testing it for several months and continue to ask to play. Hard to think of a better test than that. From…
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Say It Ain’t So
Flight Simulator is the biggest product casualty of the Microsoft layoffs? The layoffs are a sad day for all the people affected and a disappointing milestone for the company, but Flight Sim is an industry institution dating back three decades. It is painful to see as I was the Flight Simulator product manager early in…