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Platformonomics TGIF #124: April 17, 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 No newsletter next week. News CAPEX Clues: After the Press Release I’m impressed only 40% of data center builds are behind schedule. That number is likely to…
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This Nobel Prize Thing
I find myself perplexed by this inexplicable award. Has the Nobel prize selection committee completely lost its senses? I mean, what exactly is “the landscape of the dispossessed” and how do you win the Nobel prize in literature for writing about it? Why isn’t there more discussion of this bizarre choice? I know there is…
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PHuW!™
I have a theory that companies peak soon after they make big, bold, public and very round revenue forecasts of fifty billion or more. Basically, they’re so busy trying to grow to the sky they miss important changes in the market and/or hubris gets the better of them. In some cases, the wheels come off…
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Omnia Iam Fient Quae Posse Negabam
Factum est. Appareo decet nihil munditia? Ad absurdum? Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres. Luke sum ipse patrem te.
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The Wisdom of Clowns?
So I am looking up Korea on Wikipedia and some things are amiss. I can only assume it is a North Korean plot: Korea was united until 1998; at that time it was split into South Korea and North Korea. Since the Goryeo Dynasty, Korea was ruled by 7 governments and maintained political and cultural…
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Bionic Eyesight
Devices from science fiction are becoming real at a prodigious pace. Makes the phone-based augmented reality stuff look clunky.