Nothing Rhymes This Week
Six times through the pile and it still hasn’t sorted itself into a story. So, once more, proximity in place of a thesis.
The markets end opens on rotation rather than collapse: a read on what actually breaks DRAM pricing, which argues the saturation frame is the wrong one entirely, sitting beside the tape-level detail of Samsung denying US ADR listing talks just after SK Hynix pulled $26.5 billion off Nasdaq. The memory story keeps generating headlines faster than it generates conclusions.
History, this pass, is waste and cleanliness. There’s who cleaned Roman Rome, the social economy of everything the celebrated aqueducts carried away, and — from a very different discipline of care — a guide to collecting Japanese prints, edition quality and condition and where a beginner should actually start.
On the workbench: the operational reality of building offline-first mobile apps, harder than it looks and worth it anyway, plus the founder-math warning buried in the dilution trap — how successive rounds quietly transfer a company away from the people who started it.
For the eye and the road: a gear piece on how and why to use a gimbal, which doesn’t replace a tripod or good glass but earns its place anyway, and a night scene along the water in Bordeaux’s Bourse Maritime, a working landmark that turns theatrical after dark.
Two to finish. The honest field guide to what you’re actually getting into at Torres del Paine — remote, sub-Antarctic, unforgiving of casual visitors — and, to land somewhere warm, a bowl of rigatoni with meatballs that knows exactly what it’s doing.
Nothing rhymes this week. Some collections are just collections.