August 10–16, 2020

Business

• The Rise of TikTok and Understanding Its Parent Company ByteDance. Deep dive on TikTok. One of the most interesting reads on TikTok that I’ve ever encountered. Scares the shit out of me.
• Pinduoduo and Vertically Integrated Social Commerce. How to build a tech giant. Also scares the shit out of me.
• Oatly: The New Coke. Oatly probably doesn’t care agbout your health.

Culture

• Drive and Listen. Traveling in the time of travel bans.
• The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free.
• Twitter, George Soros, and Porn (this is my 3rd Margins post in as many weeks; if you like pop finance you should just sub to them already)
• GaryVee Is Still Preaching the Hustle Gospel in the Middle of a Pandemic. Just trust me.

Tech

• Software disenchantment (an oldie but goodie). There’s so much software out there that just hasn’t been made well and there’s many reasons why (and this post explains a bunch of them) but it’s still sad.

Work

• Can you know too much about your organization?. This piece helps shed some light on why you feel disenchanted about working at the same place for a while despite enjoying your day job.
• Dorking: How to find anything on the internet. I use Google all the time and this post is a summary of some useful heuristics on how to Google more efficiently.