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#209: Load-Bearing (opens the original)
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#208: Scarcity (opens the original)
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A flight search product that can't get the data. A bankrupt airline whose operating history is worth $10 million. Loyalty programs running out of seats to give away. Banks paying travel brands more at every renewal.Special thanks to Propellic for sponsoring this edition of the newsletter:<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C_Lc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:ste
#207: Evidence (opens the original)
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What OTA stocks are doing in the AI era, the case against AI job doom, job board conversion rates, the real cost of agentic search, and a prediction I made 20 months ago that just came true.Special thanks to Propellic for sponsoring this edition of the newsletter:<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C_Lc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A
#206: Undertow (opens the original)
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The surface reading of this World Cup, this M&A wave, this jobs data, is rarely the real one. This issue is about the currents running underneath: search spikes that won't convert, hosting that doesn't move demand, an AI jobs panic the data doesn't support, and reputations that don't hold up once you show up and see for yourself.Special thanks to Signifyd for sponsoring this edition of the newsletter:<div c
#205: Recommended (opens the original)
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What gets recommended, and why: an algorithm deciding which hotel or LinkedIn post to trust; a good ad that makes you want to forward it to someone. This edition also gets into vacation data and how Airbnb scaled AI coding to 64% of pull requests.How AI chooses which hotels to recommend“The AI already has an opinion about your hotel. The question is whether it’s the right one.” That’s the framing from a new hotel SEO guide by Propellic. A traveler used to type “boutique hotels in Charleston” and
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