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The closure of Monolith Productions, an innovative video game developer, shows what’s wrong with an industry in which game publishers have the ultimate power to shut down projects and fire workers.

The closure of Monolith Productions, an innovative video game developer, shows what’s wrong with an industry in which game publishers have the ultimate power to shut down projects and fire workers.

The closure of Monolith Productions, an innovative video game developer, shows what’s wrong with an industry in which game publishers have the ultimate power to shut down projects and fire workers.

The closure of Monolith Productions, an innovative video game developer, shows what’s wrong with an industry in which game publishers have the ultimate power to shut down projects and fire workers.

Doximity AKA "LinkedIn for Doctors" is a business in declining health with major risks not accounted for by Wall Street.

As discussed many times in the healthcare professional (HCP) and investment communities, the primary end use case of Doximity among its user base of HCPs is not its social media platform but its dialer or phone number masking service, even as Doximity's revenue largely comes from pharmaceutical companies advertising on its platform in the platform's scrollable Newsfeed.

Doximity's accounting shows peculiar growth. I am diagnosing this growth not as a benign but as malignant.

In a market that has seen significant recent pullback among ad names like Reddit (RDDT), The Trade Deck (TTD), and AppLovin (APP) Doximity is highly exposed.

1. Doximity's revenue accounting and reported business metrics have become a joke. It's very obvious that Doximity is pulling forward revenue on large accounts as their longer-tail customers churn. That their auditor for many years Deloitte seems to be failing to execute on basic account standards shows how out of control this revenue accounting has become under CFO Anna Bryson.
2. Doximity operates one of the most absurd "pre-populated" social networks in existence, in which doctors and other HCPs are bullied into signing up for Doximity to manage their professional profiles else they may have incorrect information about them syndicated to US News & World Report and other sources of medical information and rankings. There is major risk in Doximity losing California HCPs and HCPs in other states with laws regulating processes requiring HCPs to upload IDs and collect data off HCPs as a requirement for these professionals to "claim" a pre-populated profile about them. This process has for years boosted Doximity engagement and usage metrics.
3. Doximity CEO Jeff Tangney was previously cofounder and CEO at Epocrates, which went public and endured the same practices of shifting revenue forward as the actual sales of the business failed.

Doximity AKA "LinkedIn for Doctors" is a business in declining health with major risks not accounted for by Wall Street.

As discussed many times in the healthcare professional (HCP) and investment communities, the primary end use case of Doximity among its user base of HCPs is not its social media platform but its dialer or phone number masking service, even as Doximity's revenue largely comes from pharmaceutical companies advertising on its platform in the platform's scrollable Newsfeed.

Doximity's accounting shows peculiar growth. I am diagnosing this growth not as a benign but as malignant.

In a market that has seen significant recent pullback among ad names like Reddit (RDDT), The Trade Deck (TTD), and AppLovin (APP) Doximity is highly exposed.

1. Doximity's revenue accounting and reported business metrics have become a joke. It's very obvious that Doximity is pulling forward revenue on large accounts as their longer-tail customers churn. That their auditor for many years Deloitte seems to be failing to execute on basic account standards shows how out of control this revenue accounting has become under CFO Anna Bryson.
2. Doximity operates one of the most absurd "pre-populated" social networks in existence, in which doctors and other HCPs are bullied into signing up for Doximity to manage their professional profiles else they may have incorrect information about them syndicated to US News & World Report and other sources of medical information and rankings. There is major risk in Doximity losing California HCPs and HCPs in other states with laws regulating processes requiring HCPs to upload IDs and collect data off HCPs as a requirement for these professionals to "claim" a pre-populated profile about them. This process has for years boosted Doximity engagement and usage metrics.
3. Doximity CEO Jeff Tangney was previously cofounder and CEO at Epocrates, which went public and endured the same practices of shifting revenue forward as the actual sales of the business failed.

I have the self-control of a rock.

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37.1C is when I die.

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I’ve known for quite a while that the main reason my book backlog is growing (other than “I keep buying books”) is the same device I draw my cartoons on.

The iPad’s always ready to offer me a quick distracting endorphin hit: check my feeds! watch a BSG video! play one more of the billion Wordle clones out there!

It’s especially bad when I’m reading an e-book on it, what with notifications popping up — few of them worthy of my attention, but all of them stealing it.

Still, I have a few in my queue that I’m really excited about. I just finished Mick Napier’s Improvise. Scene from the inside out, and started Tom Blank’s The Principles of Comedy Improv. Next up in fiction is Lake of Souls, a collection of Ann Leckie’s short stories, and then Samantha Harvey’s Orbital (which I think will be my first time reading a Booker Prize-winner — don’t judge me).

Where is this economy going? Honestly, we don’t know. Economists don’t know. The stock market — we say it all the time here— is not the economy, and it doesn’t know, either.

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