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  • Zitron on Musk

    Some things in here I hadn’t considered about X.com’s banking ambitions and the origins of WeChat

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  • Review inflation

    Economist: Critics are getting less cruel. Alas This is something that drives me up the wall with new books — the lack of professional reviews that are actually critical. Everyone loves a hilarious pan of a terrible book — the Jared Kushner one is an all-timer (“Reading this book reminded me of watching a cat…

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  • How Novellas Became Novels

    This is a good article by Lincoln Michel. Part of it reminded me of in On Writing by Stephen King when he talks about the design of a book – not only is it paper weight and cover and typeface and photography, but margins and page count and frequency of paragraph breaks, etc.

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