Incremental Insights #37
A weekly collection of mostly business and investment related content
The World's Largest Search Doesn't Want You to Search
Google's new mission: Keep you trapped, not searching. They've turned the digital highway into a roach motel - you can check in, but you'll never check out.
How the world's biggest search engine is sacrificing quality for control, replacing real results with AI hallucinations, and why this strategy might lead to their downfall.
Humble Pie
"The future is unknowable, yet Wall Street keeps selling certainty."
Why humility might be your most powerful investing weapon. From the predictability paradox to why crises create the best opportunities, a peek inside Dan Rasmussen’s new book, The Humble Investor.
A Rare Interview with Phil Fisher Following the 1987 Crash
There are two fundamental approaches to investment. There's the approach Ben Graham pioneered, which is to find something intrinsically so cheap that there is little chance of it having a big decline... Then there is my approach, which is to find something so good–if you don't pay too much for it–that it will have very, very large growth.
What the Oscars Tell Us About Hollywood
Matt Belloni talks with Peter Kafka about the Oscars, the business behind it, and what it means for its upcoming rights renewal.
And who would’ve guessed that viewership goes up when you finally put it on a streaming platform?