Economy and Business
Money, markets, trade, logistics, companies, and work.
#5937: The Fine-Tuning Career: Titles, Skills, and What It Pays
The job above the labeling layer exists — it just doesn't have one name. What it takes, what it pays, and how to sell it.
#5931: What the Council on Vertical Urbanism Actually Decides
The body that rules on the world's tallest buildings just dropped "tall buildings" from its name. What does that mean for Jerusalem's Marom Tower?
#5927: Where Generalists Get Priced: Inside the FDE Role
A $485K median salary for a job with no clean definition — and why the résumé can't capture it.
#5926: Inside Alibaba's Machine: AliExpress, Guanxi, and the China Daniel Has Never Visited
What's actually on the other end of an AliExpress order? A look at Alibaba's B2B machine, Israel's import economy, and guanxi.
#5910: Revit MCP in a VM: What Actually Works
Autodesk's official Revit MCP server is locked down and reliable-ish. The community ones execute arbitrary code on an open port. Neither runs unatt...
#5909: Connecting Postgres to Google Workspace
How a Postgres-backed app on Cloud Run talks to Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Docs, Sheets and Slides — without duplicating data.
#5908: One Database Won't Fix Your Fragmented Stack
Rita has two employees, four apps, and one fear: which database wins when they disagree? Here's the field-by-field answer.
#5906: Running a Company Like a Spy Agency
What if an ordinary company ran on intelligence-style need-to-know? Oak Ridge and a 1977 CIA self-audit already ran the experiment.
#5894: Printing Money Isn't What You Think It Is
Central banks order billions of banknotes a year — but that's replacement, not stimulus. Here's how cash actually gets made and destroyed.
#5892: How Cities Borrow Money: US Bonds vs Denmark vs Israel
From 50,000 US issuers to Denmark's single lender to Israel's two-ministry approval — how cities actually get credit.
#5882: Half of All Energy Becomes Heat. Now What?
Half the world's energy ends up as waste heat — but only 6% is worth recovering. Inside the cities that built the pipes anyway.
#5881: How the Grid Loses Half Its Power — and How Delhi Fixed It
Losses range from 0.23% in Singapore to 59% in Iraq. Delhi went from 52% to 5.5% — mostly without new power plants.
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#5874: Who Actually Builds a City's Housing Crisis?
Jerusalem's cranes aren't an accident — they're an incentive machine. Four operators, one load-bearing part, and the rules that could change it.
#5862: One Show, Eighteen Feeds: Apple's Duplicate Content Rules
One show, eighteen topic feeds. Apple's duplicate content rules have a specific answer — and it isn't the one you'd hope for.
#5858: Routing AI Models: When 3 Rules Beat a Trained Router
A deep dive into AI model routing — and why a learned router may not beat three rules you wrote by hand.
#5853: Who Actually Competes With Hugging Face?
2.96 million model repos, and 85.6% have under 200 downloads. What ModelScope, Kaggle, and Ollama actually do differently.
#5845: The $700 Pin and Other AI Flops
Five AI misfires, from a $700 pin that overheats doing nothing to a flagship model nobody remembers.
#5837: Atlas Obscura: 33,000 Hidden Places and a Boardroom Coup
A rotating circle of plants in Argentina, a boiling river 400 miles from any volcano, and the founders who got voted off the board.
#5812: One Number, Every Hard Question: Agent Session State
A shopping bot that holds one cart total turns out to contain every hard problem in agent state management.
#5811: Can an Agent Actually Place Your Order?
Agentic checkout protocols are real — Shopify, Walmart, Target. But the DIY parts live on AliExpress, which supports none of them.