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The Uberisation of Everything
Affordable luxuries have come at a deeper cost
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Do You Want to Look like the One Percent?
Social status alone does not explain the way people dress
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Note to Readers
Enjoy my absence (while it lasts)
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Farewell, Timber Utopia
Returning to wood is not the architectural remedy I hoped it was
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How Apple Works
The company’s design success is backed by aggressive innovation and rent-seeking
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The Real AI Revolution
Chatbots and the death throes of the creator ideology
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The Nietzschean Origins of Skyscrapers
Thus spoke Louis Sullivan
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The Anarchy of Raw Materials
Commodity traders and the rise of Putin’s Russia
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