# The Diff

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Author: Byrne Hobart
Episodes: 310

## Resource

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.

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## Episodes
- [What We Periodically Relearn About Rent Control](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/what-we-periodically-relearn-about-rent-control) — 2026-07-27T14:46:06+00:00
- [The Lots-of-Low-Satiety-Calories Business Isn't What it Used to Be](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/the-lots-of-low-satiety-calories-business-isn-t-what-it-used-to-be) — 2026-07-20T14:54:06+00:00
- [The Bad Apple Problem](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/the-bad-apple-problem) — 2026-07-13T14:51:51+00:00
- [Cultural Stasis? Or Just Rising Budgets, a Limited Supply of Good Movie Release Dates, and the Kelly Criterion?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/cultural-stasis-or-just-rising-budgets-a-limited-supply-of-good-movie-release-dates-and-the-kelly-criterion) — 2026-07-06T14:58:36+00:00
- [The Mythical Agent-Minute](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/the-mythical-agent-minute) — 2026-06-29T15:01:24+00:00
- [Blind Extrapolation as a Powerful Force in Finance](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/blind-extrapolation-as-a-powerful-force-in-finance) — 2026-06-22T15:31:56+00:00
- [What Does it Mean to Have a Trillion Dollars?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/what-does-it-mean-to-have-a-trillion-dollars) — 2026-06-15T14:35:36+00:00
- [It's Maturity Transformation All The Way Down](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/it-s-maturity-transformation-all-the-way-down) — 2026-06-08T15:01:39+00:00
- [Using AI for Writing like a Responsible Adult](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/using-ai-for-writing-like-a-responsible-adult) — 2026-06-01T14:57:48+00:00
- [The Rocketship](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/the-rocketship) — 2026-05-26T14:55:59+00:00
- [What Can You Learn from a Deterministically Chaotic Market Simulation?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/what-can-you-learn-from-a-deterministically-chaotic-market-simulation) — 2026-05-18T15:32:26+00:00
- [Why does Resource Extraction Produce Such Concentrated Wealth?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/why-does-resource-extraction-produce-such-concentrated-wealth) — 2026-05-11T14:37:45+00:00
- [Dead Airlines](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/dead-airlines) — 2026-05-04T15:51:58+00:00
- [Are the AI Labs Ready for the AI Backlash?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/are-the-ai-labs-ready-for-the-ai-backlash) — 2026-04-27T15:22:05+00:00
- [Ad-Based Platforms Have Mostly Solved Optimal Taxation](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/ad-based-platforms-have-mostly-solved-optimal-taxation) — 2026-04-20T14:24:16+00:00
- [Ring, Cloudflare, and the Supply Chain of State Capacity](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/ring-cloudflare-and-the-supply-chain-of-state-capacity) — 2026-04-13T14:54:31+00:00
- [Uncanny AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/uncanny-ai) — 2026-04-06T16:12:30+00:00
- [Handy Robots](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/handy-robots) — 2026-03-30T14:32:59+00:00
- [Apple, Occasionally a Commodities Trading House](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/apple-occasionally-a-commodities-trading-house) — 2026-03-23T14:33:39+00:00
- [Are We Already Building a Piecemeal AI Data Royalty Model?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/are-we-already-building-a-piecemeal-ai-data-royalty-model) — 2026-03-16T13:11:17+00:00
- [America Has a Comparative Advantage in Handling Global Disorder](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/america-has-a-comparative-advantage-in-handling-global-disorder) — 2026-03-09T15:23:32+00:00
- [The Year of Convergence](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/the-year-of-convergence) — 2025-10-27T14:21:53+00:00
- [Routers, Apps, AGI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/routers-apps-agi) — 2025-10-20T14:38:00+00:00
- [In Defense of Generative Video Accelerationism](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/in-defense-of-generative-video-accelerationism) — 2025-10-13T14:45:40+00:00
- [Technological Progress is a Stack of S-Curves; Diffusion is a Stack of J-Curves](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-diff-6882118/technological-progress-is-a-stack-of-s-curves-diffusion-is-a-stack-of-j-curves) — 2025-10-06T15:13:11+00:00

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