The Uncertainty of Information

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Ben Thompson: I feel like us trying to take this piece of the information control from China is like Amazon trying to take from Apple, we're going to ship perfect devices every so often. And we saw what happened with the fire phone. You can't selectively pick pieces of a strategy and just drop it in a completely different context and hope that it's right. That actually confirms my thesis that I should never write a book because if Amazon can't make the fire phone, maybe the blogger can't make a book.

Ben and James discuss masks and Twitter’s decision to delete tweets about COVID-19.

Links

Zeynep Tufekci: Why Telling People They Don’t Need Masks Backfired — The New York Times
Ben Thompson: Unmasking Twitter — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Compaq and Coronavirus — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Zero Trust Information — Stratechery
China’s Decision to Leave Asymptomatic Patients off Coronavirus Infection Tally Sparks Debate — Caixin
Ben Thompson: Apple’s Organizational Crossroads — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Books and Blogs — Stratechery
Why It’s So Freaking Hard To Make A Good COVID-19 Model — FiveThirtyEight