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Asymetrical Power. Tech Platforms in a Gig Economy 19 Others

Corporate tax cut. OK, and then what do they do with the money?

Adam Townsend - December 26, 2017December 12, 2018

Pundits are using political hysterics and clickbait worries when discussing the corporate tax cut. Savannah Guthrie, interviewing Paul Ryan on the Today Show, posited for a gotcha with“What they [CEOS] [ … ]

cash has no memory 56 Others

Bitcoin ain’t bling. “If you flashin it, you must not want it” – DMX

Adam Townsend - December 24, 2017December 12, 2018

“…each competitor has to pick, not those faces which he himself finds prettiest, but those which he thinks likeliest to catch the fancy of the other competitors, all of whom [ … ]

survivor 31 Others

Timestamped prediction. Survivor: Heroes, Helper & Hustlers

Adam Townsend - December 20, 2017December 12, 2018

I’m not gonna give a whole analysis or the forensics of  how I came to my guess, because it just doesn’t matter. Either something happens or it doesn’t. I’d like Ben [ … ]

regulating cryptocurrencies and why it matters 21 Others

Regulating Cryptocurrencies–and Why It Matters

Adam Townsend - December 17, 2017December 12, 2018

Nations that attempt to limit cryptocurrencies’ ability to solve these problems will find that protecting high costs and systemic friction will grind their economies into dust. There’s a great deal [ … ]

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Worshipping Algorithms. No salvation in technology

Adam Townsend - December 15, 2017December 12, 2018

We have changed. What we are now is all those algorithms. An algorithmic culture that is devotional. We supplicate ourselves to computers that have replaced gods in our minds, even [ … ]

whos on first adam townsend 51 Others

Socialized Medicine? Who’s on first?

Adam Townsend - December 14, 2017December 12, 2018

There must be such a thing as socialized medicine, but no-one is exactly sure what it ‘is’. We know all the things that it isn’t. Include in that long list [ … ]

amazon whole foods cold war civil war 27 Others

Takeover. Digital Political Capitalism and AMZN, FB, GOOG, AirBnB

Adam Townsend - December 12, 2017December 12, 2018

What if a company is on both sides of the market of law? What if it exercises juridical (administration of the law) power, being not only a party to a conflict, but [ … ]

exploring the job ladder to high productivity firms 84 Others

Exploring the Job Ladder to High-Productivity Firms

Adam Townsend - December 10, 2017December 12, 2018

“Less-educated workers are disproportionately likely to move up the job ladder during expansions, but they also slide down during downturns.” This is from Dwyer Gunn at the NBER Digest: Exploring [ … ]

google be evil 37 Others

Children in the henhouse and YouTube is the wolf

Adam Townsend - December 9, 2017December 12, 2018

At the start of 2015, YouTube began its online ‘safe space’, YouTube Kids. Architected for children and assured with child-appropriate entertainment. At first glance the videos are normal, the parents [ … ]

Black Money India and the Visible Hand of the Market 550x525 68 Others

Bitcoin mining and fossil fuels. If you buy, sell or mine, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM

Adam Townsend - December 8, 2017December 12, 2018

Bitcoin consumes energy, and that, my suddenly capitalist friend, comes from coal. As your destroying third world countries, let’s visit one of the world’s largest Bitcoin mines in the Inner [ … ]

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