What I'm Reading About FTX and Twitter, Part II

Roundup 11/20/2022

Greetings from Read Max HQ! As longtime readers know, every week I recommend a list of books, articles, movies, videos, music, and other dumb bullshit, new and old, that I think readers might like.

Since over the last few weeks I’ve mostly been consuming stuff about the twin meltdowns at the heart of the Read Max universe -- Twitter and FTX -- I’ve been using this space to recommend informative or entertaining writing about the two companies. (You can read my FTX recommended-reading here, and my Twitter recommended reading here.) So, why not do it again? Below, some of what I’ve been reading to try to understand FTX and Twitter.

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Let’s get to the roundup.

What I’m reading about FTX