How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
A newsletter about Pop Culture, Software Studies, Business Strategy, Media Platforms, Algorithmic Management, Game Design, and everything in between.
FEATURED
Free money
Bankers and prophets seem to be driven by an almost poetic compulsion to push further.
-
Listen: https://ift.tt/gQAfGbt Keke kicks it with Anderson .Paak for a real hang on new music, his directorial debut, and watching his kids make music of their own. He breaks down how a song he wrote years ago just became another… more ›
-
Listen: https://ift.tt/UoJP0ar Fresh out of the studio, Karen Hao, investigative journalist and author of "Empire of AI" joined us in a conversation to unravel how companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI have become modern empires reshaping society, labor, and democracy… more ›
-
On September 29, 2025, Bharat Chandar, postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, and Ruyu Chen, research scientist at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, presented the findings of their recent paper “Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about… more ›
-
Corgis, compute, Cold War; Ecclesiastes; ties; Stendhal; humor; Pascal’s Wager; deep infrastructure; Germanic obedience; Texas State Fair https://danwang.co/2025-letter/ more ›
-
The shows that deserve a spot in listeners’ rotations https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025/12/20-best-podcasts-2025/685010/?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ5vjvafojabb70_GS2YWFns more ›
-
Listen: https://ift.tt/JgY2qQK A DJ from South Africa who survived a life-altering accident on the night of Nelson Mandela’s release, Black Coffee has gone on to headline the world’s biggest stages. At BoF VOICES 2025, he reflected on building global credibility… more ›
-
Listen: https://ift.tt/VElzeAn This week on Sinica, recorded at Yale University, I speak with Michael Brenes and Van Jackson, coauthors of The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy. Their argument is that framing the U.S.-China relationship as… more ›