Minh Quang Duong

Weekly readings – 30th November 2019

The bus ticket theory of genuis

What to Do When a Work Friendship Becomes Emotionally Draining

Do Ridesharing Services Increase Alcohol Consumption? Do they add net benefits to our societies?

Why Are Canadian Construction Costs So High?

The California DMV Is Making $50M a Year Selling Drivers’ Personal Information

A Brief Cartographic History of Hai Phong 1898–1968

Inside the fall of WeWork. It’s mind blowing that there continues to be more investigative pieces on how dysfunctional WeWork is. It’s inconceivable to think without public scrutiny how the company would be and how it would harm public investors’ interest. One notable quote from the piece is that WeWork’s operations make the current White House look like a well-oiled machine.

Platforms and Publishers: The End of an Era. A pretty long yet interesting read on platforms and publishers

Comparing unit economics of food delivery companies

The climate crisis has sparked a Siberian mammoth tusk gold rush

How Disneyland got its start

Prisoners have to pay to….read. This kind of heartless and soulless opportunism is morally corrupt and distasteful

PayPal Acquires Honey, What Honey Is, PayPal’s Play

The making of Bloggi

Interactive map of Apple’s supply chain. I attempted to make such a map, but Apple makes it super difficult to get the data from their weirdly designed PDF instead of a CSV. Kudos to The Prepared for this tool

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