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On that be aware, right here had been just a few of our favorites this week.
- Airbnb and the Limits of Founder Mode. Wednesday’s Each day Replace was Stratechery at its highest. The main focus was this week’s information that Airbnb is relaunching its app and increasing its purview to incorporate a brand new Companies providing and a revamped, curated strategy to promoting Experiences, all within the hopes of constructing the Airbnb app greater than only a as soon as or twice-a-year vacation spot for customers all over the world. Responding to these ambitions, Ben synthesizes evaluation of Airbnb’s previous experiments, feedback from Founder and CEO Brian Chesky, honesty about what the Airbnb expertise entails right this moment, and reflections on the hole between how Chesky needs his firm to be seen and the place market forces have taken it as an alternative. The piece is crammed with themes that apply extra broadly throughout tech, and in the event you missed it this week, it’s price your time over the weekend. — Andrew Sharp
- Contained in the NBA Lottery in Chicago. The NBA Playoffs proceed apace, however this week additionally introduced excessive drama for the dregs of the league, because the NBA held its annual Draft Lottery in Chicago. My co-host Ben Golliver was contained in the drawing room for the Washington Put up because the Dallas Mavericks(!), with 1.8% odds(!!), took residence the primary choose. Best of All Discuss recapped the entire night earlier this week, together with a have a look at how the NBA conducts this enterprise yearly, abject heartbreak for my Washington Wizards, and conspiracy theories that had been ubiquitous and unavoidable after one other staff misplaced its once-in-a-generation famous person to Los Angeles and was rewarded with an opportunity at a franchise participant (on this case, Duke’s Cooper Flagg). All of it’s the peak of absurdity, which is to say, it’s precisely the form of occasion that makes for an incredible podcast. — AS
- Do You Know What a Femtosecond Is? In the event you don’t, worry not, as a result of 72 hours in the past I used to be proper there with you. Then I watched Jon Yu’s video explaining a) what a femtosecond is (spoiler: one quadrillionth of a second); b) what femtosecond lasers are; and c) the methods during which these lasers are used right this moment. A area of examine that started with measuring horses galloping and a machine referred to as a phosphoroscope later spawned micro-chemistry, and right this moment is dominated by lasers which can be integral to the whole lot from Lasik surgical procedure to semiconductor manufacturing. This can be a video that may make anybody smarter, however what I appreciated was the reminder to be amazed and delighted by the lengthy (and persevering with!) historical past of human curiosity and ingenuity. Test it out under, or, in the event you choose it in podcast type, Stratechery subscribers can entry all the Asianometry catalog right here. — AS
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Dithering with Ben Thompson and Daring Fireball’s John Gruber
Asianometry with Jon Yu
Sharp China with Andrew Sharp and Sinocism’s Invoice Bishop
Best of All Discuss with Andrew Sharp and WaPo’s Ben Golliver
Sharp Tech with Andrew Sharp and Ben Thompson
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