The Diff

By Byrne Hobart

The Diff is a newsletter exploring the technologies, companies, and trends that are making the future high-variance. Posts range from in-depth company profiles, applied financial theory, strategy brea... more

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The podcast currently has 264 episodes available.

The Diff episodes:

February 12, 2021An Airline IPO? In This Economy?
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(00:00) - An Airline IPO? In This Economy?
(08:17) - A Word From Our Sponsors
(08:40) - Facebook vs Bullying
(09:19) - Scale and AI
(10:09) - Chip Shortage Updates
(11:30) - Decarbonization
(12:07) - Supermicro, Redux
(13:35) - The Value of Safety: A Natural Experiment
...more
15min
February 05, 2021Four Refoundings
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(00:00) - Four Refoundings
(15:50) - A Word From Our Sponsors
(16:03) - The Other Bitcoin Standard
(17:16) - Carbon Updates
(18:23) - Loyalty and Information
(19:02) - The Chip Shortage
(20:51) - Stimulus: How Much is Too Much?
...more
23min
January 29, 2021Messaging Wars, Round Two
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(00:00) - Messaging Wars, Round Two
(08:38) - A Word From Our Sponsors
(09:16) - GameStop
(12:55) - Too Much of a Good Thing
(14:48) - Controlled Boom
(15:39) - Decarbonizing
(16:11) - Taiwan and China
(16:42) - Local News
...more
18min
January 22, 2021The Road Not Taken: Stripe, Ant, PayTM & Defi
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(00:00) - The Road Not Taken: Stripe, Ant, PayTM & Defi
(21:26) - A Word From Our Sponsors
(21:57) - Facebook's Outsourcing Moderation
(22:47) - Amazon's Outsourced SEO
(23:40) - Scarce and Free Resources
(24:35) - Moderating Social (Pt 3)
(25:28) - Business Travel and Veblen
(26:24) - Intel's Semi-Hack
...more
28min
January 15, 2021The Technocrats' Recovery
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(00:00) - The Technocrats' Recovery
(06:51) - Big Tech Sees Like a State Update
(08:08) - Why Don't Car Subscriptions Work?
(08:53) - Taylorism-as-a-Service
(09:53) - The Semiconductor Boom
(10:38) - R&D and the Genius Problem
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12min
January 08, 2021Homesteading Mental Models
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(00:00) - Homesteading Mental Models
(07:08) - A Word From Our Sponsors
(07:47) - Robinhood's Plot to Make IPOs Less Exciting
(09:03) - Momentum-Squared and Value-Squared
(10:32) - Dollar-Weighted Returns
(11:36) - Blocking Trump
(13:00) - Meta-Bundles
(13:33) - Commercial Ties
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15min
December 18, 2020What's Happening in Logistics
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(00:00) - What's Happening in Logistics
(09:43) - A Word From Our Sponsors
(10:15) - Infohazards
(11:20) - How The Grinchbots Steal Inflation
(12:54) - The Hack Expands
(13:59) - AR and the Physical/Digital Switch
(14:56) - Antitrust and Real Interest Rates
...more
16min
December 16, 2020DoNotPay: The API for IRL
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(00:00) - DoNotPay: The API for IRL
(06:11) - The Index
(08:05) - Twitter: Subscale
(09:34) - Chaos Engineering
(10:12) - Space Law
(11:45) - The Login Layer
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13min
December 11, 2020Sharing and Owning Standards
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(00:00) - Sharing and Owning Standards
(09:08) - A Word From Our Sponsors
(09:38) - More Institutional Bitcoin
(10:16) - The Latest Asset to Trade at Negative Prices
(10:50) - Facial Recognition
(11:27) - Recursive Product Development
(12:21) - Every Tech Company Becomes a Bank
(13:25) - Can Anyone Afford for Robinhood Not to Underwrite IPOs?
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16min
December 04, 2020Taiwan and Supply Chain Frenmity
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(00:00) - Taiwan and Supply Chain Frenmity
(10:50) - A Word From Our Sponsors
(11:28) - Airline Green Zones
(12:29) - Short Sellers and the Supply Chain of Information
(13:49) - Housing and Pull-Forward Demand
(14:57) - Facebook and Visa Arbitrage
...more
18min

FAQs about The Diff:

How many episodes does The Diff have?

The podcast currently has 264 episodes available.