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The Diff

The Diff

By: Byrne Hobart
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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.The Diff Economics Personal Finance
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  • What Can You Learn from a Deterministically Chaotic Market Simulation?

    What Can You Learn from a Deterministically Chaotic Market Simulation?
    May 18 2026
    This is an audio version of the free newsletter. Read the newsletter at thediff.co, and subscribe for an additional 3 posts (and podcasts!) per week.
    • (00:00) -
    • (07:19) - Prediction Markets
    • (08:18) - Exotics
    • (09:34) - Binning
    • (10:38) - Unpopular AI
    • (11:51) - The Rebalancing Trade
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    13 mins
  • Why does Resource Extraction Produce Such Concentrated Wealth?

    Why does Resource Extraction Produce Such Concentrated Wealth?
    May 11 2026
    This is an audio version of the free newsletter. Read the newsletter at thediff.co, and subscribe for an additional 3 posts (and podcasts!) per week.
    • (00:00) - Why does Resource Extraction Produce Such Concentrated Wealth?
    • (08:30) - RLHF
    • (10:17) - When Will AI Show Up in Labor Market Data?
    • (11:16) - Aligning Incentives
    • (12:00) - Local Volatility
    • (12:41) - FDE Shortage
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    13 mins
  • Dead Airlines

    Dead Airlines
    May 4 2026
    This is an audio version of the free newsletter. Read the newsletter at thediff.co, and subscribe for an additional 3 posts (and podcasts!) per week.
    • (00:00) - Dead Airlines
    • (04:46) - Synergy
    • (06:02) - Indexes
    • (06:58) - Warehousing
    • (07:53) - Capacity
    • (08:43) - Defense
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    10 mins
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