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In the early 2000s Expedia almost bought Booking for 30M€. The deal only fell through last minute because of a sudden (unrelated) drop of Expedia stock, which made Expedia’s board reluctant to go through with the acquisition. Today, Booking is worth $167B. Expedia is $27B.

Satya is winning the CEO Comms award for Big Tech. In the last few months he’s been posting consistent, quality updates. There are many positive downstream effects on which, one of them the vibe around the MSTF brand. kudos.

ChatGPT can finally break the MSFT-GOOGLE Office Duopoly. Open in ChatGPT Slides. Open in ChatGPT Sheets. Open in ChatGPT Docs. Open in ChatGPT Mail.

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The hook "AI just killed [X]" was all the rage 1-2 years ago. We probably got 500k-1M users from content creators using this hook, most of which for free after seeing how well it performed in other accounts.

I shop at Lidl because I want to, not because I have to

3. The trend is clear: higher deficits during recession period, slow follow-on recovery The datapoints on the green area show how rare budget surpluses are. France might get all the jokes, but the real issue runs much deeper. The whole G7 is living on credit and pretending it’s

2. All G7 countries have ran budget deficits in at least 20 of the last 34 years France and Italy have budget deficits fore more than 34 years in a row. This is an insane stat. It means that the richest economies in the world simply can’t run a balanced budget.

New analysis. G7: A Tragic Debt Story (1991-2023) France’s public deficit has become somewhat of a meme online (at least on my feed). I wanted to understand how bad it really is, especially compared to its G7 counterparts. So I loaded the GDP Debt datasets from the IMF, the

I’m very surprised to be getting a view from Google Search <24 hours after publishing on Substack. Any idea why?

I'm very bullish on AI models for B2B videos, to handle everything from turning an image into a simple animation to taking a series of Figma images and creating a feature launch video. Right now models like Veo3/Sora are close, but it's still not polished enough. I did several

Creating almost arbitrarily complex charts in @RowsHQ makes everyone a creative data analyst. "chart of the G7 Government Budget Deficit/Surplus that shows the budget balance trends by country, but with a shade OR something that distinguishes the area of the chart with positive

For everyone shocked at the @WHOOP age scores just remember that half of the folks in OECD countries are overweight or obese.

next on the pipeline

we’ve reached basketball AGI

One of the advantages of logging every book I read is doing a few analysis on my reading patterns. This is the number of books I’ve read by publishing year, out of 283.

Made sense.

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I completely forgot that I had reviewed this book 4 years ago: https://t.co/uWarCmoaAb

“A 100% global debt-to-GDP ratio would be the highest since 1948, when the world’s large economies had been devastated by six years of war and the costs of rebuilding their ravaged countries.” The boiling frog.