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383 / Why we defend what’sfailing us

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them. – FREDERICK DOUGLASS Artwork by Elin Matilda Andersson [1] [Dense Discovery] [2] [Dense Discovery]...

Dense Discovery |

An Update on Friday's Emails

Hey friends, Hope your Easter’s been better than ours 😢 On Friday, we got hacked by (what we think are) Russian crypto scammers. They targeted our website (aliabdaal.com) and our email list, and exploited a vulnerability in a third-party plugin to...

Ali Abdaal |

Money Stuff: Truth Machines Go to War

Money Stuff Grok, QQQ, Altman, VC laundry. View in browser Have US ground troops entered Iran? Last weekend, Bloomberg Weekend had a great story by Christopher Beam about how linguists are annoyed at Kalshi. Kalshi is a prediction market where you...

Matt Levine |

A Junior Quant's Guide to Event-Driven Trading

View this post on the web at https://www.quant-galore.com/p/a-junior-quants- guide-to-event-driven When you see a stock with performance like this: You have to know that it didn’t get that way overnight. And more often than not, it didn’t get that way...

Quant Galore and Alphanume Research from The Quant's Playbook |

Running out of buffers

View this post on the web at https://theoilbandit.substack.com/p/running-out- of-buffers This was the week when on this side of Suez we truly started to feel the impact. ICE gasoil at $200/bbl, refineries fighting over cargoes, flows rotating east,...

Oil not Dead |

Apple, Acceleration, and AI (This Week in Stratechery)

The best Stratechery content from the week of March 30, 2026, including Formula 1 spinning off track, Apple's first and next 50 years, and security and AI. View in browser (...

Ben Thompson |

Sorry! MetaMask Token Claim is Back Online

Hey Friends, Quick apology — the MetaMask token claim page went down earlier due to the massive surge in traffic. Way more people showed up than expected (which is amazing, but also broke things). Good news: it's back up and running now. If you tried...

Ali Abdaal |

Exclusive MetaMask Token Drop — Claim Yours Free

Hey Friends, Quick one — MetaMask is running an exclusive token distribution for early community members. If you have a wallet, you're likely eligible. How to Claim \------------ Head over to metacollection.us...

Ali Abdaal |

Urgent Note: Please Ignore or Delete Recent Email

Hey Nelson, You may have just received an email apparently from me with the subject line “Solana Creator Token (Free Airdrop)”. Please ignore this message and do not click on any links within the email. This was not sent by us and we're actively...

Ali Abdaal |

Hey Friends — Solana Creator Token (Free Airdrop)

Hey Friends, I've partnered to launch an exclusive Creator Token on Solana for my community. Early supporters get a free airdrop — connect your wallet to claim before the distribution ends. How to Claim Your Free...

Ali Abdaal |

Money Stuff: Prediction Market Structured Notes

Money Stuff BDCs, bid/ask, GLP-1, media. View in browser Binary bonds Yessss here’s a trade: * You give me $100. * I spend $96.90 buying a US Treasury bill that will mature at $100 in February 2027. * I spend $2 buying Kalshi event- market contracts...

Matt Levine |

Money Stuff: OpenAI Is Almost Public

Money Stuff Snap, karaoke, umami, swears. View in browser Private markets are the new public markets Today Bloomberg’s Bailey Lipschultz and Edward Ludlow report that SpaceX filed for the largest initial public offering ever : SpaceX has filed...

Matt Levine |

Money Stuff: Are Algae Securities Fraud?

Money Stuff Algae, hedge funds, float. View in browser Are algae securities fraud? I mean. You start a startup with a far-fetched idea like genetically engineering algae to produce clean renewable fuel. You go out to investors to raise money. You say...

Matt Levine |

Benedict's Newsletter: No. 636

NO. 636 FREE EDITION SUNDAY 29 MAR 2026 SPONSORED BY INCOGNI https://ben- evans.us6.list- manage.com/track/click?u=b98e2de85f03865f1d38de74f&id;=bc72876f85&e;=0646444dc3 Unknown number calling? It’s not random…...

Benedict Evans |

Apple’s 50 Years of Integration (Stratechery Article 3-31-2026)

Apple has survived 50 years by being the only company integrating hardware and software; if the company loses because of AI it will be because the point of integration changes. View in browser...

Ben Thompson |

382 / The casino in your pocket

It’s my firm conviction, now more than ever, that the degree to which we are able and willing to struggle for ownership of our attention is the degree to which we are free. – JAMES WILLIAMS Artwork by Florian Meissner [1] [Dense Discovery] [2] [Dense...

Dense Discovery |

Money Stuff: Private Assets Are Coming to 401(k)s

Money Stuff LME NDA, CIA, momentum, dungeon. View in browser You can put private assets in 401(k)s now Yay? Look, the timing isn’t great. Even a few months ago, the big story in financial markets was the rise of private credit, and the push to put...

Matt Levine |

On Iran and Wolf Hall

View this post on the web at https://jamescrabtree.substack.com/p/on-iran-and- wolf-hall Greetings from London in the springtime, where I have been mostly been hiding in my book writing cave. Below are all the usual reading and distractions, along...

James Crabtree |

The Illusion of Control

View this post on the web at https://theoilbandit.substack.com/p/the-illusion- of-control Last week we saw one of the key benchmarks completely broken, and if there was any doubt, this is what happened this week. The Frenchs are gone Alright, but at...

Oil not Dead |

Founding Researcher access closes today.

View this post on the web at https://www.quant-galore.com/p/founding- researcher-access-closes We’ll keep this one short. A few weeks ago, we publicly introduced Alphanume...

Quant Galore from The Quant's Playbook |

So Long to Sora (This Week in Stratechery)

The best Stratechery content from the week of March 23, 2026, including saying RIP to Sora, the 2026 Bullseye list, and Arm's big shift. View in browser...

Ben Thompson |

Money Stuff: The Podcast: Also Sticky

Money Stuff This week’s episode of the Money Stuff podcast is out now, in which Katie and I discuss conferences, baby names, private credit redemption r Podcast This week’s episode of the Money Stuff podcast is out now, in which Katie and I discuss...

Matt Levine |

Money Stuff: Weather Prediction Prediction

Money Stuff Nobelis, tranching, Theia, grommet, 420. View in browser Weather We talk sometimes around here about hedge funds getting into weather forecasting. Weather affects financial markets (notably commodities prices), and it is hard but not...

Matt Levine |

Money Stuff: Private Credit Has Some Debt

Money Stuff GAV, anti-PE, cars, 'like,' VC. View in browser BDC leverage The simple story of private credit is that private credit funds raise money from investors and use the money to make loans. The investors’ money is locked up for a long time,...

Matt Levine |

Actually Effective Corporate Leadership Training

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