My August 2024 best business reads roundup
How Lidl accidentally took on the big guns of cloud computing – Olaf Storbeck, Financial Times
How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr – Jason Koebler, 404
Change Blindness – Ethan Mollick, One Useful Thing
AI Scaling Myths – Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor, Ai Snake Oil
No god in the machine: the pitfalls of AI worship – Navneet Alang, The Guardian
What's Universal CMS all about? – Janus Boye
Could TikTok breed the next generation of startups? – Elizabeth Segran, Fast Company
2024 Online Retail Report – FTI Consulting
Sorry, You Need a Neck Fan – Saahil Desai, The Atlantic
As we debate whether tech executives should cooperate with judicial authorities regarding their platforms, consider the case of kids like Alex:
Inside Snapchat’s Teen Opioid Crisis – Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone
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