Chris

Product at @stripe. Posts ≠ financial advice.

[Ernie Tedeschi @ernietedeschi]

New from @Stripe Economics: employment of young college grads is weaker than normal. Much of the debate is around AI's impact. But evidence is growing that work-from-home is a major factor, which we find in public data & our own Stripe data. 🧵 https://t.co/uTSZMX2TAe /1

[Chris @ChrisLiter]

I’m not crying you’re crying

[Greg Joswiak @gregjoz]

Excited to share our new holiday ad, a heartwarming story about the gift of creativity!

[Chris @ChrisLiter]

@anneapplebaum Correct

[Chris @ChrisLiter]

@PMArslanagic Lovely piece!

[Chris @ChrisLiter]

This is the way

[The Weather Channel @weatherchannel]

https://t.co/f3IHjpeyfo

[Chris @ChrisLiter]

28 years ago I read a rumor online by a certain “Kenneth M. Burton” that you could actually get the triforce in ocarina of time. I remember grinding for days, bombing every last gossip stone to no avail

Turns out that page is still live on geocities today! Damn you, Kenneth, wherever you are 😂

[Chris @ChrisLiter]

IMHO the three most remarkable data points of the year:
1. The biggest Democrat popular-vote margin since Watergate
2. Federal debt at 125% of GDP
3. Interest on debt overtaking Medicaid and Defense

[Chris @ChrisLiter]

okay folks minus Navi were our Halloween costumes IRL or AI slop

[Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly]

This @NewYorker story is so good, and so important for everyone to understand. Through the lens of semiconductor manufacturing, it highlights the interconnectedness of today’s world and puts to shame anyone who thinks that we can go back to a world shaped only by national rivalries rather than international cooperation and trade. “The semiconductor supply chain is a planetary superorganism with its own ecology…. Globalization has become tainted in our eyes, as if it necessarily constitutes a zero-sum enterprise. And its mercenary form—which is also its most common form—has indeed inflicted harm. But the global semiconductor supply chain reflects an alternative pathway. It has united its participants in the pursuit of something profoundly difficult that could not have been achieved in the absence of intercontinental solidarity.” https://t.co/IbZsJozH6l

[Chris @ChrisLiter]

“God, how I wish I could relive the whole thing."

With every passing year this quote from the epilogue of Shoe Dog hits harder and harder

[Chris @ChrisLiter]

Wow love @Uber’s feature that lets you switch payment methods after a trip. Went from annoyed with myself for having to reimburse an expense to surprised and delighted 💫

[anomali @Anomali210830]

Happy Pythagorean Theorem Day!

10/24/26

10² + 24² = 26²

This is the last one we’ll experience in our lifetime.

[kanav @kanavtwt]

“there are unfixable bugs in hardware that are exploitable by AI models directly speaking machine code”

[Chris @ChrisLiter]

you know, I think I’ve finally gotten over selling all that bitcoin in 2012. I’ve made peace with mys—

[PokeWhales @PokeWhales]

Top 15 most expensive Base Set era cards, going by 1st Edition PSA 10 sales this year.

Charizard at $1.38M is no shock. Jungle Kangaskhan is the wild one: $10.5K in April, $158.5K this month.

[Steven Michael Thomas @stevenwhatevr]

This seems bad.

[Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 @peterwildeford]

PSA: in light of recent cyberattacks and vulnerabilities, I recommend everyone:

* use a good password manager (1Password) and do not duplicate passwords
* use two factor auth for everything important (not via sms!! Google Authenticator or better yet YubiKey)
* Auto-updates on, and restart weekly so they actually install
* Freeze your credit
* Get an IRS Identity Protection PIN
* Get your cell carrier to give you a port-out PIN or number lock that makes the carrier refuse to move your number without the PIN

You can ask your claude code to audit what on your laptop is out of date and needs updating.

[Chris @ChrisLiter]

@benthompson Happy reader and subscriber for 11+ years now. Congrats, Ben!

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Ben has for many years been the best analyst in tech. I’m very much looking forward to this new @stratechery + @stripe partnership.

https://t.co/iFdKSV8NQ7

[Chris @ChrisLiter]

This is the way

[Ryan Sael @RyanSael]

IKEA manuals, but they come to life.

I built the real BILLY instructions in 3D, so you can watch every step happen exactly as drawn. try it: https://t.co/BqCpNrpeIi