Thursdays are all about longform links here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at Tiger Woods’ future in golf (and life).
Longform links
- Two important questions you need to answer about a backtesting strategy. (philosophicaleconomics.com)
- Share buybacks pay off for executives paid on per-share metrics. (reuters.com)
- Bundling can still work under certain circumstances. (thewaiterspad.com)
- We are in the midst of the "Messaging Epoch." Slack is well-positioned for what comes next. (stratechery.com)
- Is Michael Bloomberg going to wreck Bloomberg LP? (spiegel.de)
- On the value of acquiring 'career capital.' (thewaiterspad.com)
- The Guinness brewer who revolutionized statistics. (priceonomics.com)
- The sad economics of Internet "fame." (fusion.net)
- A profile of the guy who invented Auto-Tune. (priceonomics.com)
- Highly educated women are no longer having fewer children. (voxeu.org)
- Are counterfactuals a waste of time for historians? (aeon.co)
- We all cheat. (farnamstreetblog.com)