Midweek Takes #20
Ultrafast highway to hell. Revisiting Josh Barro's Excellent Reporting and a half-left turn to Lauren Oyler.
Welcome to Hell. Except You Can’t Get In.

I despise the ultrafast delivery services that have been multiplying like mad in recent months. If you live in New York you’ve seen them. You may have even used them to get an avocado delivered to your apartment in fifteen minutes (or less!). This idea of near-instantaneous delivery is the return on billions of dollars in supply chain optimization Silicon Valley has been betting on, of course; the world basically flipped when Amazon intro…
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