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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 28/09/2026

Asked Claude to convert this all to cumulative. LA only +1% since the start of 2020 is wild.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 24/09/2026

I think you might even be understating it. $600 then is $928 now, so inflation adjusted iPhones have gotten cheaper.

Inflation calculator showing $600 in 2010 is equal to $927.55 today.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 20/07/2026

How do you reconcile this with the G Elliot Morris averages?

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 15/07/2026

Gasped at the absence of a particular trilogy.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 09/07/2026

I'm actually surprised at how modest the growth in (domestic) flights has been per capita. This uses FRED data for both pieces of the equation. Enplanements specifically are here: fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ENPLA...

Chart of enplanements per capita, rising from a peak of 200 per 1,000 per month in mid 2000 to 225 in mid-2024.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 02/07/2026

This is not quite apples to apples because it excludes the publishing segment (a function of what Fable could easily fetch online), but tells the same story:

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 08/11/2025

My Philly group chat loved this and one member gave you a very high compliment

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 31/10/2025

Four trips to the theater with mostly positive results.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 22/06/2025

Amazon mass deployed a fleet like this into Manhattan a couple months ago. Feels like real regulatory arbitrage — they zoom down the bikes lanes on the avenues.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 10/05/2025

I also find myself getting Walmart ads for various precious metals — pretty weird!

A Walmart Instagram ad selling 10 ounces of platinum.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 10/03/2025

Something very funny about complaining that RaMell Ross didn't use the same perspective as Colson Whitehead — somehow too literal and not literal enough!

"The artsiest entries fell prey to this telling showiness, too. RaMell Ross’s “Nickel Boys” is based on Colson Whitehead’s unflinching novel about the horrific, sometimes fatal, abuse of Black boys in reform school. Ross splices the action with historical footage, clips from the nineteen-fifties race film “The Defiant Ones,” and the skewed sunlight of sentimentality, smothering the story with a clutter of pointing arrows. His experiments with first-person-P.O.V. camera feel like a strained effort to literalize a plot twist that Whitehead manages with far more subtlety and poignance—and in the third person, by the way."

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 26/02/2025

Trump take egg (Whole Foods, Manhattan)

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 04/02/2025

A new post with a little reflection on the stable equilibria between offering, price, and customer acquisition: independentvariables.substack.com/p/four-ways-...

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 15/01/2025

This is how a product eventually gets disrupted: - A paid ad for the thing I searched for - A paid ad for a brand I didn’t search for - Three paid pins for brands I didn’t search for - Zero relevant on-map results

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 22/12/2024

100+ movies down this year (and few notable ones still to go), so I looked back at my year and put together some top fives:

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