God decided where the oil reserves are, we get to decide where the fabs are. Chip War offers many interesting anecdotes about the state of the global chip industry, it's founding and development. It spends much of its time laboring over not only the techno...

Here's the natural history of enshittification: First, platforms are good to their users. Then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers. Next, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. F...

This was a fascinating read not necessarily for the details of the centralization of Apple's decision to move nearly all of its manufacturing to China, but for the context, pressure and politics caught up in that decision. What it lays out is a step by ste...

A well-researched, well-constructed and compelling read about the venture capital sector's ongoing malign influence on the economy. There is so much money chasing so few "power law" returns that heaps of cash is thrown at countless opportunities in the hop...

A neatly organized chronology of yet another bank failure. You get some history on Swiss banking, a good deal of insight into the firm and a conclusion that ends with its failure and an acquisition by rival UBS (there's even a brief aside about the run on ...