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Platformonomics TGIF #123: April 10, 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 News Anthropic: A $3 Trillion IPO? Fractional CEO, teller of big tales, and stickler for securities law Elon Musk is floating a 100 times revenue multiple for…
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Taleb’s Tips for Life
A nice Times of London profile of Nassim Nicholas Taleb from earlier in the summer including his top ten tips for life like be sure to dress up for your execution… My thoughts on his Black Swan book here (my most popular post).
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Circling the Drain – Part 2
Following up on our previous examination of the newspaper business in Seattle, two breaking developments have emerged this weekend. All The News That Fits in the Pits A special correspondent sends photographic evidence of a local marketing effort by the New York Times in Seattle: This is near the hydroplane pits at SeaFair, an annual…
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A Major Milestone
I nearly missed this industry first, following last quarter’s related announcement: Linden Lab and IBM Achieve Major Virtual World Interoperability MilestoneOpen Grid Protocol Enables Avatars to Teleport Between Second Life and OpenSim Virtual Worlds NEW YORK & SAN FRANCISCO – 08 Jul 2008: Linden Lab®, creator of the virtual world Second Life®, and IBM (NYSE:IBM)…
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Nixon White House
We used to joke at Microsoft in the twilight of the 20th century at the height of the dot com bubble and amidst the DoJ proceedings that things had gotten “a little Nixon White House” in terms of tumult and the disconnect with the outside world. Evidently now the Nixon White House isn’t a…
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Circling the Drain?
The future (or lack thereof) of newspapers discussion is hitting a crescendo this week between Steve Ballmer declaring they’re all toast in ten years and a columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer firing back that we’re more likely to see Microsoft’s obituary printed in his paper. While the plight of the New York Times, Los Angeles…