Thursdays are all about longform links here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at the secret story behind the birth of the Amazon Echo.
Companies
- How Reddit plans to become a 'real' business. (fortune.com)
- Where would Yahoo ($YHOO) be without its stakes in Alibaba ($BABA) and Yahoo Japan? (bloomberg.com)
Profiles
- The story of how Tiger Woods' life imploded after his Dad died. (espn.go.com)
- Jimmy Buffett has built a business empire built on his music and personality. (nytimes.com)
- What happens when two baseball stat geeks take over a team: an excerpt from "The Only Rule is it Has to Work." (nytimes.com)
- How a football coach became a marijuana mogul. (foxsports.com)
Longform links
- Ten lessons learned from Nate Silver. (thewaiterspad.com)
- Statistics are but a play thing for politicians. (next.ft.com)
- How mindfulness affects how we think about standard economics (bankunderground.co.uk)
- What does your social media feed say about your health? (knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu)
- What would happen if we adopted a universal basic income? (fivethirtyeight.com)
- A look at the organization that controls your favorite emoticons. (buzzfeed.com)