Interesting content for the week from Prashanth Rai — 9-Aug-2021 (238)

Do I actually need more information or do I simply need to act on the information I already have?

Current affairs:

- One simple question? There’s a website for that — and only that

- The CIA’s Outsourced Torture Is Lost To History

- Google co-founder Larry Page is a New Zealand resident, government says

- How Taliban Expanded in Afghanistan During America’s Longest War | WSJ (Video)

- Was Ebola a near-miss?

- Olympian Emily Infeld started receiving strange messages online. Then, her life changed forever

- Hou Yifan and the Wait for Chess’s First Woman World Champion

Business:

- Deal Of The Century: How Michael Dell Turned His Declining PC Business Into A $40 Billion Windfall

- 5 Lessons from China’s Internet Companies

- What’s Behind the Shopify Effect

- Building Products at Stripe

- How TikTok’s Algorithm Figures You Out | WSJ (Video)

- The sacking of a crypto mecca