Thursday morning news drop
Why the C.E.O. Behind Match.com and Tinder Took a Stand on the Texas Abortion Law Shar Dubey runs some of the world’s most popular online dating sites. A restrictive new law prompted her to speak out. (NY Times)
How to Learn About Crypto I didn’t grow up with a passion for the markets. When I first developed an interest in it, I started from level 0. I knew absolutely nothing. So you could imagine how much I retained from the first book I picked up, The Intelligent Investor, written in 1949. All of the concepts were new to me, but the chapter on Mr. Market clicked and inspired me to keep going. (Irrelevant Investor)
Decentralized Finance (DeFi): A Primer for Professional Investors Today, nearly 3.8 million users have allocated $212 billion to DeFi applications. These services can process loans for hundreds of millions of dollars nearly instantaneously, move money around the world for virtually no fee, trade billions of dollars in crypto assets with no intermediaries, and execute many basic financial functions more quickly, cheaply, and flexibly than the legacy system allows. In this white paper, we put the Decentralized Finance movement into context, contrast it to the incumbent alternative, and explore how much market share the disruptive technology could capture. (Amazon AWS)
Marketplaces Year in Review 2021 It was the year of broken supply chains, Amazon aggregators, more advertising, Shopify’s almost-marketplace, and one unanswered question – did the pandemic boost e-commerce after all? For now, the world of marketplaces revolves around Amazon – it has doubled in size in two years. (Marketplace Pulse)
Covid Death Rates Are Rising for Some Groups The virus is now responsible for a higher share of deaths from all causes for younger Americans and white Americans than it was before all adults were eligible for vaccines. (New York Times)
Ten Economic Questions for 2022 Economic growth, Employment, Unemployment Rate, Participation Rate, Inflation and more (Calculated Risk)
The architect making friends with flooding: One Chinese landscape designer has pioneered a new approach—working with water instead of trying to bend it to our will. (MIT Technology Review)
You’re not rich (if you’re constantly doing this) While these clients were traveling to their Hamptons summer homes, attending exclusive Super Bowl parties and skiing on private mountains – they always lamented one required behavior. The need to constantly check their email. They were ridiculously rich. But attention poor. (Rad Reads)
Everyone loses after Omicron knocks out World Juniors The weather, the competition, the profit margins, a search for normalcy or just folksy Canadiana — the 2022 World Junior Hockey Championship will go down as everything that is wrong with everything these days. Another win for COVID-19 and another loss for those who were just looking to put a little fun in their lives, both player and fan. (Sportsnet)