Brad Stone

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Bloomberg Technology and Businessweek. Author of The Everything Store and The Upstarts. Father of twins. Twin. Retweets are usually mistaken clicks.

Sonia Joseph was 14 years old when she first read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, a mega-popular piece of fan fiction that reimagines the boy wizard as a rigid empiricist. This rational Potter tests his professors’ spells with the scientific method, scoffs at any inconsistencies he find
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Brad Stone 22d

This incredible story by @ellenhuet explains a lot: the weird polycule thing at FTX, effective altruism, the cult of AI-phobia, and the significance of the word "agentic."

When people cross the US-Mexico border hoping to immigrate, they encounter a smuggling network whose operators are often highly vulnerable themselves.
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Brad Stone 2mos

Remarkable must-read by @byJuliaLove on the vulnerable people conscripted as "Coyotes" to smuggle immigrants across the US-Mexico border:

Do you like going to the beach? Too bad. They’re all doomed.
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Brad Stone 1y

Must-read: Kim Stanley Robinson with a plausible plan for saving the world's beaches from catastrophic sea level rise.

Aisle A3-7, the condiments section of the Walmart Supercenter north of Baltimore, might as well be a theater of war. Shelves of rival ketchups, mustards, mayonnaises, and dressings stand at attention, ready to bombard taste buds. The fight isn’t only about flavor, of course, but also about branding.
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Brad Stone 1y

From henceforth, @AustinCarr's title shall be @business chief Big Spice correspondent. also: a great read >>

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