@markets My prediction is that in 2022, there's no visible slowdown in Crypto Twitter, but everyone tweets things like "I've been spending a lot less time here on Twitter, and way more time in Discord lately. Way more positive and learning a lot more."
@markets "I still love Crypto Twitter, especially for trading. But been spending way more time on Discord this year, because that's where all the builders are"
How you'll really know when crypto is really in a bear market.
Oh and here's the Uncommon Core episode that I mentioned. Great stuff with @zhusu and @hasufl. One of the only times I've ever listened to a crypto podcast all the way through anchor.fm/uncommoncore/e…
TRANSCRIPT: The full text of our conversation with @dcleyre192 is out. All about the booming movement to end work as we know it and the surging growth of the r/AntiWork subreddit bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
@dcleyre192 Something I find interesting is how we're seeing all of these micro-economic movements form online and reddit in particular.
WallStreetBets
AntiWork
FIRE
All very different, but all kind of people organically rethinking their approach to the economy.
As always, if you'd prefer to listen rather than read, find it anywhere, like
TRANSCRIPT: This is why the price of wooden shipping pallets have soared over the last year.
Full text of our interview with Marshall White -- the nation's foremost expert on pallets and packaging is out. So much to learn in here. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
And if you want to listen to the episode, instead of reading it, of course you can listen here.
Three big companies basically control the pallet market. They rent them out and repair them. This is the lifecycle of a wooden pallet bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
@tracyalloway and I talked to Marshall White, the world's foremost expert on pallets and packaging, to talk about why the price of pallets has exploded over the last year. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
@tracyalloway Here's the PPI index for Wooden Pallets and Pallet Containers. You can see the big surge in 2021.
@tracyalloway One thing that we learned in this episode is that at Virginia Tech, they have a whole school for studying pallets and packaging, and there's a sculpture of the world on a pallet unitload.vt.edu
Why we're experiencing a nationwide schoolbus driver shortage.
@tracyalloway and I talked to Corey Muirhead, EVP at the largest schoolbus company in NYC, to talk about how the pandemic has made retaining and hiring drivers so much harder. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
@tracyalloway There are numerous factors driving the shortage.
-- Many drivers are quasi-retirees, and not a lot of people are unretiring these days.
-- While schools shut down, demand for truck drivers soared, so people with CDLs just switched industries.
Also like every other industry, there's an Amazon effect, as @tracyalloway wrote about
In today's newsletter, I wrote about something that's bothered me for a long time -- we don't have a big, monthly survey that asks workers and the non-employed about the job market. It's a great time to fix this.
We have all these questions about the labor market, and various vague theories for why people aren't taking up job openings faster.
And yet instead of asking the public about this, we ask the public whether now is a good time to buy a vacuum cleaner or a dishwasher.
Meanwhile, we have these business surveys, which can be interesting and useful. But the respondents have been complaining about tight labor markets and labor shortages for almost a decade now, which shows that we need to take these with a grain of salt.
@markets 1/ "The internet is at a fork in the road: Do we want a future on Mark Zuckerberg's servers, or do we want to build on top of networks with data we own and identities that we control? Because that is precisely what's at stake here."
@markets 2/ "Imagine never having to come up with a username or password ever again. Your crypto wallet *is* your sign-in."