A controlled study pairs clean and messy versions of the same codebase and measures how well coding agents perform on each. Cleaner code measurably raises agent success rates, giving empirical weight to the intuition that agents inherit the debt in your repo.
Zwick and Zidar argue that much of the apparent decline in labor's share of income is a mirage of how people get paid: when employees are compensated in equity, the gains get taxed and counted as capital, not labor. Reclassify pass-through and stock comp and the labor-share story looks very different.
Bending Spoons — the Italian app conglomerate that has quietly rolled up AOL, Vimeo, Evernote and WeTransfer — went public despite serving over a billion users while remaining a near-unknown. The playbook is buy mature software, cut hard, and run it for cash.
China released a house-church pastor held nine months, weeks after Trump personally raised the case — a rare instance of religious-freedom diplomacy producing a concrete result.