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Why American ambulance rides are so expensive(davidoks.blog)

247 points by jyunwai 3 months ago | 349 comments

Why Japanese companies do so many different things(davidoks.blog)

828 points by d0ks 5 months ago | 386 comments

A Substack essay by David Oks explaining the internal logic behind why Japanese corporations diversify into so many unrelated businesses.

The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics(davidoks.blog)

496 points by d0ks 5 months ago | 584 comments

Substack essay by David Oks arguing that AI-driven memory demand is causing a global memory crunch that is raising prices and killing cheap smartphones.

Why airlines are always going bankrupt(davidoks.blog)

41 points by bko 5 months ago | 28 comments

Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead(davidoks.blog)

194 points by powera 6 months ago | 179 comments

Seeing like a spreadsheet(davidoks.blog)

99 points by paulpauper 7 months ago | 34 comments

ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did(davidoks.blog)

502 points by colinprince 7 months ago | 527 comments

Substack essay by David Oks arguing that ATMs did not eliminate bank teller jobs but smartphone mobile banking did, exploring how automation replaces labor.

I'm not worried about AI job loss(davidoks.blog)

259 points by ezekg 8 months ago | 430 comments

Why poor countries stopped catching up(davidoks.blog)

41 points by j-bos 8 months ago | 34 comments

A lot of population numbers are fake(davidoks.blog)

362 points by bookofjoe 9 months ago | 295 comments

A blog post by David Oks arguing that many national population figures are unreliable or fabricated, questioning how well we know the world's population.