Thursdays are all about longform links here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at why we keep returning to the story of Steve Jobs.
Longform links
- Mean reversion rules the world: why we so often get fooled. (rpseawright.wordpress.com)
- Too much choice is stressing us out. (theguardian.com)
- We are moving from the age of disruption to the age of deployment. (reactionwheel.net)
- Inconsistent criticism and lunch with Ben Bernanke author of "The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath."* (ft.com)
- Lessons from a lunch with T. Boone Pickens. (fool.com)
- Chicago is experiencing a tech brain drain. (chicagotribune.com)
- The rise and fall of the .ly domain. (priceonomics.com)
- Meet the guy who pays out when some one hits a hole in one in a contest. (bloomberg.com)
- Welcome to the world of cloud seeding. (bloomberg.com)
- Evanston, Illinois is doing a good job of going carless. (politico.com)
- Judging the top 50 restaurants in the world is a ridiculous endeavor. (newyorker.com)
- The story of the legendary house above the Comedy Store. (buzzfeed.com)