Nuggies - Cookies and Fusion Reactors
Thursday, October 1st, 2020
Welcome to the 20th edition of Nuggies, an email newsletter that aggregates articles and commentary on business, economics, startups, and more, in bite-sized nuggets sent right to your email weekly. Created by and for college students.
Our quote of the week comes from Angelist founder Naval Ravikant, “Charisma is the ability to project confidence and love at the same time.”
This Week’s Articles:
Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is ‘Very Likely to Work,’ Studies Suggest, New York Times

This article talks about SPARC, the company pioneering a compact fusion reactor to be completed as soon as 2024. This is significant—fusion reactors offer a streamlined way to produce mass amounts of energy cleanly and efficiently. Reports say that this reactor, developed by an MIT spinoff company, should be working much faster than competitors. This story offers some hope for the future of clean energy production, and shows one of the benefits of free market competition.
Read it here
Why every website wants you to accept its cookies, Vox

This is a good read for anyone interested in those annoying, pop up ad-esque cookie notifications that seem to pop up on every website these days. It walks through why they are there, why there are more of them, and the everlasting battle to figure out the right way to do data privacy on the internet. More interesting than it might seem on surface level, this quick read gives a lot of background that you likely never knew about.
Read it here
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This Week’s Wildcard (an extra, interesting nugget):

This Week’s Question:
What are some businesses with extremely hard-to-copy features, to the point that even a lot of money and power could not (or would have a tough time) competing with?
What are we listening to this week?:
Midterm week is back (did it ever leave?). So find us stuck in the library, head down, with Lonerism in our headphones. Lonerism, like most Tame Impala albums, has a great flow and fluidity, backed up by a confidence and experimentalism that keeps the same Tame Impala sound while still pushing boundaries. Throw it into your rotation this week.
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