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Another Day. Another SPAC.

Another day, another SPAC. But this is one I was

Links for the Week Ending January 8, 2021

A research brief from MIT on the state of industrial

The Continued Digital Revolution of HR

I joined the PCTY Talks podcast this week to talk

What’s in a Book

My literary agent Lucinda Halpern wrote a nice post on

The Future of Manufacturing and the Factory of the Future in a post-COVID World

Early into the pandemic, the World Economic Forum, in collaboration

Robots in the Beginning

The word “robot” first appears in Karel Capek’s 1921 play

The Expanding War with China

The NYSE’s plan to delist three Chinese telcos (China Mobile,

Archaeology is Going Digital

Big data is often discussed as being this radical alternative

Looking Back, Looking Ahead: How the pandemic shook the industry, the Big Tech backlash, and trade war fallout

In the final #techspansive episode of 2020, Ross Rubin and

The Need to Accelerate Vaccine Distribution

Vaccine Distribution has been abysmal. Governor Cuomo issued an executive

The Physics of Baseball

At any instant, one side of the ball will be

Zeynep Tufekci on COVID Mutations

Zeynep Tufekci has a great piece in the Atlantic about

Battling Zoom Fatigue

Advice for battling Zoom fatigue from business psychologist Stuart Duff,

Might Tech Companies Become Nonprofits?

Given the early mission of the internet to democratize information,

The Future of On Demand Retail

We’ve seen how Ghost Kitchens have started to change the

The Competitive World of Bird Watching

…anyone can view rankings of the top eBirders in different

Reid Hoffman’s Airbnb Reflections

Reid Hoffman posted some reflections on Greylock’s investment in Airbnb.

Facebook’s Antitrust Woes

Tim Wu is out with a few things press keeps

COVID and New Product Introduction

In March I wrote about the impact COVID was going

Growing Unemployment Across States

Roughly one in ten workers have filed for unemployment in

The Fed’s Growing Balance Sheet

Over the last two weeks, the Federal Reserve has added