Podcast

The Diff

Author: Byrne Hobart
Feed episode count: 310
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Summary

The Diff is a newsletter exploring the technologies, companies, and trends that are making the future high-variance. Posts range from in-depth company profiles, applied financial theory, strategy breakdowns and macroeconomics.

Episodes

Jul 27, 2026 · not_requested

What We Periodically Relearn About Rent Control

Duration seconds: 1090
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/5ca2f9ea

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Jul 20, 2026 · not_requested

The Lots-of-Low-Satiety-Calories Business Isn't What it Used to Be

Duration seconds: 602
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/cb3d9806

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Jul 13, 2026 · not_requested

The Bad Apple Problem

Duration seconds: 602
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/516dc238

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Jul 6, 2026 · not_requested

Cultural Stasis? Or Just Rising Budgets, a Limited Supply of Good Movie Release Dates, and the Kelly Criterion?

Duration seconds: 895
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/b217fa31

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Jun 29, 2026 · not_requested

The Mythical Agent-Minute

Duration seconds: 733
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/af8a35f7

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Jun 22, 2026 · not_requested

Blind Extrapolation as a Powerful Force in Finance

Duration seconds: 879
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/28ad6a52

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Jun 15, 2026 · not_requested

What Does it Mean to Have a Trillion Dollars?

Duration seconds: 1038
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/deb21f87

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Jun 8, 2026 · not_requested

It's Maturity Transformation All The Way Down

Duration seconds: 706
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/852c4ff8

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Jun 1, 2026 · not_requested

Using AI for Writing like a Responsible Adult

Duration seconds: 606
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/36cdc61e

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May 26, 2026 · not_requested

The Rocketship

Duration seconds: 785
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/729459d0

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May 18, 2026 · not_requested

What Can You Learn from a Deterministically Chaotic Market Simulation?

Duration seconds: 783
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/2645abfb

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May 11, 2026 · not_requested

Why does Resource Extraction Produce Such Concentrated Wealth?

Duration seconds: 808
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/62c2c04c

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May 4, 2026 · not_requested

Dead Airlines

Duration seconds: 594
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/2a64b085

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Apr 27, 2026 · not_requested

Are the AI Labs Ready for the AI Backlash?

Duration seconds: 715
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/499e624c

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Apr 20, 2026 · not_requested

Ad-Based Platforms Have Mostly Solved Optimal Taxation

Duration seconds: 830
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/4e7fac07

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Apr 13, 2026 · not_requested

Ring, Cloudflare, and the Supply Chain of State Capacity

Duration seconds: 884
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/30ef0a30

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Apr 6, 2026 · not_requested

Uncanny AI

Duration seconds: 609
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/13f0f792

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Mar 30, 2026 · not_requested

Handy Robots

Duration seconds: 902
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/e5d0c4f3

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Mar 23, 2026 · not_requested

Apple, Occasionally a Commodities Trading House

Duration seconds: 793
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/e8a35d7e

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Mar 16, 2026 · not_requested

Are We Already Building a Piecemeal AI Data Royalty Model?

Duration seconds: 548
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/c999730b

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Mar 9, 2026 · not_requested

America Has a Comparative Advantage in Handling Global Disorder

Duration seconds: 805
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/c57c602a

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Oct 27, 2025 · not_requested

The Year of Convergence

Duration seconds: 816
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/c8ffd673

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Oct 20, 2025 · not_requested

Routers, Apps, AGI

Duration seconds: 1655
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/733f576c

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Oct 13, 2025 · not_requested

In Defense of Generative Video Accelerationism

Duration seconds: 1236
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/d9c22e5c

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Oct 6, 2025 · not_requested

Technological Progress is a Stack of S-Curves; Diffusion is a Stack of J-Curves

Duration seconds: 924
Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/92b604f3

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