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bat-bean-beam.blogspot.com
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What Do People Do All Day?
A witty close reading of Richard Scarry's Busytown that unpacks the economics, labor and politics of the children's clas…
What Do They Make?
An anonymous salary-sharing site with no accounts or paywalls, where you browse real pay figures and add your own to the…
What Do Visa and Mastercard Do?
A clear introduction to how card networks work, who pays whom when you tap a card, and why interchange fees exist, writt…
What If I Invested?
A calculator that shows what you would have today if you had invested in a stock or ETF years ago, with historical, divi…
What's Elon Worth?
A live net-worth tracker that turns a trillionaire's wealth into absurd real-world comparisons, then lets you enter your…
What's Noka Worth?
A legendary piece of food investigation that dissects a luxury chocolate brand selling at hundreds of dollars a pound an…
When2meet
A free scheduling grid where invitees paint the times they are available, instantly showing the organizer which slot wor…
Where $3 Trillion Actually Goes
A data analysis of 4 million IRS 990 filings mapping where US nonprofit revenue flows, and how little financial disclosu…
Where Are The Jobs?
A zoomable dot map of the United States where every dot is one job, colored by sector, revealing downtown office cores,…
Where the Renters Are
A dot density map of the United States showing where people rent and where they own their homes, with each dot standing…
Where's George?
A currency tracking project where you enter a dollar bill's serial number and zip code to follow its journey or see wher…
Who Pays Writers?
An anonymous, crowdsourced list of which publications pay freelance writers and how much, collected from the writers the…
jeff-vogel.blogspot.com
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Why All Of Our Games Look Like Crap
A veteran indie game developer explains with humor and hard numbers why his studio's games look dated, and why that is a…
Why Bell Labs Worked
An essay on how Bell Labs produced the transistor, information theory and Unix, and how management culture and funding c…
Why Cities Must Build Administrative Capacity
An essay arguing that cities spend too much money and time on basic projects, and that investing in administrative capac…
Why Do Everyone's Logo Fonts Look the Same?
A look at how clean sans-serif typefaces took over brand logos, tracing the design trends, screens and business pressure…
Why Everyone Hates the Electronic Medical Record
A long read tracing how medical records turned from a clinician's notebook into billing-driven software, and why doctors…
Why Jet Engines Aren't Made in China
A deep explainer on why China still struggles to build top jet engines, and what the metallurgy, tooling and decades of…
Why Sony Can't Bring Back Its Classic Walkman Models
A former Sony engineer explains the supply chain, tooling and parts problems that make reviving the classic cassette Wal…
Why Your Music Is Worthless
A long essay by musician Simon Indelicate on the economics of music when recordings are worth zero, and how cult indie a…
Will Robots Take My Job?
A lookup tool that estimates how susceptible your job is to computerisation, with notes on safer career options and ways…
Worker Owned
A searchable directory of tens of thousands of products from worker-owned cooperatives and employee-owned companies, cov…
Works in Progress
A magazine of deeply researched, optimistic essays on economic growth, technology, and progress, illustrated with origin…
Works in Progress
An online magazine of new and underrated ideas about science, technology, and economic progress, publishing essay-length…
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