Thursdays are all about longform links here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at the value of acquiring career capital.
Longform links
- How the mess at Third Avenue Funds went down. (wsj.com)
- A history of the Black-Scholes formula. (priceonomics.com)
- On the importance of base rates on prediction. (thinkadvisor.com)
- An interview with Martin Shkreli. (vanityfair.com)
- An interview with Lawrence Creatura author of "Long and Short: Confessions of a Portfolio Manager."* (valuewalk.com)
- A profile of Jet.com and its happy workers. (nytimes.com)
- Inside Chipotle's ($CMG) attempt to clean up its supply chain problems. (bloomberg.com)
- Why do companies still bother drug testing employees? (slate.com)
- Meet the Benedictine monk of Silicon Valley. (buzzfeed.com)
- An excerpt from Maria Konnikova's "The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It...Every Time."* (newrepublic.com)
- Gary Taubes on what makes us fat.* (farnamstreetblog.com)
- How some Brooklyn hipsters got people to pay $10 for a chocolate bar. (qz.com)
- Don't write off the humanities just yet. (aeon.co)