Venkatesh Rao

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Conversational account. Writing @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. Hail threadthulhu 🐙

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Tweet Nov 13, 2022

$TWTR capital structure thread 🧵 Elon had commitments for $13 billion in credit facilities to help finance the Twitter buyout They are shown here. $12.5 billion was likely funded at close with undrawn $500mil revolver 1/ twitter.com/EnergyCredit1

by O&G OG

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Article Oct 19, 2022

How Bad Did It Get?

by Grace Huang

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Worse Is Better

by Richard P. Gabriel

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Tweet Oct 26, 2022

THREAD 🧵 I see CBDCs are trending again, so I thought I would offer some insight and context to the whole story. How did this idea even come about? What are they good for? Are you getting the full picture? (I will probably keep adding to this thread

by Izabella Kaminska

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Tweet Sep 2, 2022

L. E. J. Brouwer (in his 1908 opening salvo against David Hilbert's mathematical formalism and the Law of the Excluded Middle) is clearly channeling Schopenhauer twitter.com/bryankam/status/1565654945617043459/photo/1

by Bryan Kam

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Article Oct 11, 2022

Why high speed rail hasn’t caught on

by Casey Handmer, PhD

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Article Oct 10, 2022

Newsletter Economics in 2022

by Byrne Hobart

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Tweet Oct 4, 2022

Malcolm Harris (@bigmeaninternet) goes beyond the binary of 'green growth' vs. 'degrowth', so's to imagine how to "take advantage of the capitalist system's contradictions to kill it as soon as possible." defector.com/growth-for-what-the-shaky-promis

by Jay Owens

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Article Oct 4, 2022

Is ‘Green Capitalism’ Total BS?

by Kate Knibbs 🏄🏻‍♀️

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Series Jun 4, 2009

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Book Nov 1, 2001

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

by James C. Collins

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Article Sep 5, 2022

The energy historian who says rapid decarbonization is a fantasy

by Russ Mitchell

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