Hello you!
I wasn’t sure if I’d make it this week, but I did… I like keeping streaks — unless it’s on Snapchat!
Now, since I’m here, let’s jump straight in.
— Behrouz
something to listen to while reading → Le Marais by Leon Noel.
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In Today’s Issue
This Week in the News
Article: Twitter — new CEO, new business model?
Podcast: Financial bubbles
Tweet: fuckworthy
Tool: Bitwarden
And a gift for you.
This Week in the News
Crypto exchange BitMart says it suffered a hack resulting in the loss of $150M in crypto, after its Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain hot wallets were breached [link]
Google is investigating a report that a Pixel 5a, sent to an official repair center in Texas, was used to bypass 2FA on a number of owner's accounts [link]
Apple sues Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service challenging the order to allow developers to inform App Store users about the alternative payment options [link]
Spotify removed the work of hundreds of comedians, including John Mulaney and Kevin Hart, amid a fight with royalty administration agency Spoken Giants [link]
Nvidia’s Arm problem, Didi’s delisting, and an NFT [link]
The new BLOCK on the block, Crypto ads on Meta, and Tesla’s latest product [link]
GS+AWS, Oculus, and Cyberwhistles [link]
Meta’s Giphy problem, FIFA’s battle against offsides, and Cyber Monday sucked [link]
Bye Bye Dorsey! [link]
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One Article
Twitter Has a New CEO; What About a New Business Model?
By now you probably have heard about Twitter’s founder, Jack Dorsey, stepping down as the platform’s CEO. He was one of the last [big] tech founder/CEOs still in charge of their companies, beside Mark Zuckerberg. A lot has happened around Dorsey’s companies since his resignation from Twitter — rebranding Square to Block was one of them.
But the main question remains: will Twitter be able to improve its business and business model?
Ben Thompson writes about this in this post…
read more on Stratechery.
One Podcast
Bubbles, Bikes & Biases
From a single stock to the entire stock market, Dutch tulips to American houses, Beanie Babies to crypto currency, a bubble can form around pretty much anything that can be bought and sold.
It can be hard to spot a bubble from the inside, and devastating to be caught up in one.
This episode of NPR’s Planet Money talks about financial bubbles. It’s a super interesting episode.
listen to it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts.
One Tweet
fuckworthy
but what is truly fuckworthy in your life? other than health, mood (happiness), and how you invest or what you pay attention to?
One Tool
Bitwarden
an open-source password manager available on pretty much all platforms… it does offer free and premium plans, but its free version is really good and feature-packed.
🐶 One gift for you.
who’s the passenger?
And that’s all for the Pulse 155. Stay curious. I’m not joking.
See you next week!