Thursdays are all about longform links here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at the danger of the blind use of algorithms.
Quote of the Day
"Perhaps the problem is that it is never quite possible to “get it right” with a child. Parenting is a messy, humbling business, full of grand expectations, mundane fears and long days."
(Emily Bobrow)
Longform
- Global warming-related coastal flooding is already here. (nytimes.com)
- India vs. China is the great 21st century competition. (openthemagazine.com)
- How secrecy was behind the downfall of Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos. (vanityfair.com)
- How we killed the idea of leisure time. (timeline.com)
- This is the most exclusive restaurant in America. (newyorker.com)
- The weird battle over WhistlePig rye. (bloomberg.com)
Location
- Dave Barry defends his home state of Florida. (wsj.com)
- What the movies "The Blues Brothers" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tell us about modern day Chicago. (city-journal.org)
Music
- A dozen things learned about the music business. (25iq.com)
- An excerpt from Bruce Springsteen's new memoir "Born to Run." (vanityfair.com)