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Platformonomics TGIF #122: April 3, 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 I made another appearance on the Telco in 20 podcast, where we talked about hundreds of billions of HyperCAPEX spend and asked what ever happened to the…
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Things I Don’t Understand: Pricey Metaverse Real Estate
Virtual real estate isn’t a new concept. Second Life has been selling virtual land for almost two decades. It is not a big business. And you may have forgotten that IBM really kicked off its 21st century pageant of overpromising and then utterly underdelivering (see SmartCloud, Watson, IBM Blockchain, IBM Cloud and seemingly now moving…
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Tweetstorm Digest: Reactions to Barron’s “IBM’s Reboot” Story
Some @charlesfitz reactions to Barron’s excitedly bullish cover story on IBM. I for one was excited they used “Lost Decade” on the cover! Twitter thread repeated here: Barron’s makes its semi-regular pitch for IBM’s imminent reincarnation in this week’s cover story 🧵 /1 Despite a lede calling Watson “one of the greatest coups in the…
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Let a Bot Run the Federal Reserve: 2021 Edition
Here is my quadrennial plea to put our monetary policy in the hands of a bot (and happy to call it a smart contract if that makes it more au courant). Despite my best efforts, Bernanke, Yellen, and Powell all got the nod over the bot. But the risks of human policy error have never…
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The Minesweeper Moment
Shortly after Windows 3.0 shipped, we rounded up and shipped some of the games floating around inside Microsoft, most of which were byproducts of developers teaching themselves to program Windows. Minesweeper was one of the games in the first Entertainment Pack for Windows (tagline: “It’s not just the most fun you can have with Windows,…
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Living in a Glass House: What is the New York Times?
As an everyday exercise in self-discipline, I try to resist commenting on the New York Times’ banal and tin-eared OnTech newsletter, despite its impressive daily attempts to maintain a monotonic function of being “the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard”. I previously suggested some ideas to perhaps make the newsletter more lively and self-aware, and hoped…