Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the case against Warren Buffett’s status as American capitalist hero.
Quote of the Day
"Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience."
(Tim Wu)
Technology
- How decentralization can help technology thrive. (medium.com)
- Twitter ($TWTR) still hasn't fixed its fundamental problems including online abuse. (vanityfair.com)
- The case against Google: it's a global monopoly that has way too much power. (nytimes.com)
- Didi Chuxing beat Uber in China. Now its looking farther afield. (wired.co.uk)
Business
- Is private equity a "superior form of capitalism" or "overvalued and overrated"? (americanaffairsjournal.org)
- There is no shortage of business lessons from studying Snoop Dogg. (25iq.com)
- How Eric Ries author of "The Lean Startup" attracted so many disciples. (fortune.com)
- Is a lack of competition hurting the US economy? (hbr.org)