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It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code
A short, true-story dialogue by ed weissman showing how layers of process turn a one-line software change into days of m…
Jesse Thorn: Make Your Thing
Radio host Jesse Thorn lays out his tongue-in-cheek 12-point program for success in independent media - a funny, practic…
Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale
The story of how a faulty software deployment at Knight Capital sent millions of unintended trades in 45 minutes and wip…
LEGO Price Per Part Over the Years
Charts and analysis of LEGO price per part across decades, adjusted for inflation and set types, to answer whether brick…
Levy Economics Institute
An independent research institute publishing working papers on monetary economics, financial fragility, and employment p…
Liberty Street Economics
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's blog, publishing readable analysis of banking, inflation, and financial market re…
Making Games
A candid essay by a veteran indie developer on four years of full-time game making, what he believed about the dream, an…
Market Urbanism
A blog arguing for looser zoning and free-market approaches to housing and city building, with essays on land use rules…
MarketWatch
Financial news site providing stock quotes, market data, investing tools and personal finance coverage.
McKinsey Global Institute
A research arm publishing free, richly illustrated reports on global economic trends, automation, productivity, and the…
Minimum Wage Clock
A playful blog write-up of a quick experiment that turns minimum wage into a ticking clock, showing how fast different j…
Money Is the Megaphone of Identity
A long-form essay with hand-drawn illustrations about how money amplifies who we already are, why more of it rarely chan…
Monster Cables Picked the Wrong Guy to Threaten
A lawyer's gleeful 2008 account of Monster Cable sending a cease-and-desist to the wrong target and getting a masterclas…
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Mostly Economics
A prolific personal blog curating and summarizing economics papers, speeches, and articles from around the world, update…
Moving Beaches
The surprising story of the global, mostly invisible and often illegal trade in sand, where whole beaches are dug up and…
Mr. Darcy's Ten Thousand a Year
An essay that decodes Mr. Darcy's famous income in Pride and Prejudice, using bond yields and 18th-century English finan…
Mr. Money Mustache
Popular personal finance blog about frugality, early retirement and financial independence (FIRE).
My $500M Mars Rover Mistake
A candid story by a space engineer about a costly mistake on a Mars rover mission, what went wrong, and the lessons on f…
Mythical Wealth-Creation Machines
An illustrated essay on legendary objects that magically produce riches, from the Finnish Sampo to cornucopias and magic…
National Bureau of Economic Research
America's leading nonpartisan economic research organization, offering free access to thousands of working papers and hi…
Nonfiction Is Struggling. Publishers Are Making It Worse
A longform piece in The Walrus arguing that the book industry blames readers for falling nonfiction sales when its own d…
NYC Pizza Price Data
Liam Quigley documents 464 slices of pizza eaten across all five boroughs from 2014 to 2022 and analyzes rising prices a…
ODI Global
A London-based think tank publishing research and data visualizations on international development, humanitarian aid, an…
OECD iLibrary
The OECD's digital library of books, papers, and statistics on economics, education, and social policy, with many chapte…
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