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Rather, when you think of war it is very zero sum: you either control territory, or you don’t. You either live, or you are captured, or dead. The analogy here — and I admit, this is a bit of a stretch — is to the hardware cycle. If you have a new PC, you’re not going to buy one for a while. This applies to all consumer electronics and, in the case of Amazon.com, applies to a whole host of durable consumer goods.
The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession
stratechery.com
A business is not a business until it has been hardened by fire and water.
Men and Rubber
Harvey S. Firestone
This is why we suspect that those who most loudly proclaim they are “following the science,” “following the process,” or “following the markets” are actually engaged in elaborate forms of ventriloquy. We can sense that power is operating. We believe we can tell when we are being disadvantaged and others advantaged. We believe we can sense — in the direction of the swarm, in the outputs of the algorithm, in when the protocol does or does not deliver the goods — some hidden hand, some force behind the scene.
The New Control Society
thenewatlantis.com
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