Thursdays are all about longform links here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at the prevalence of diploma mills.
Companies
- The life, death and rebirth of Blackberry's ($BBRY) hometown. (fusion.net)
- The story of Google ($GOOG) Maps ten years in. (recode.net)
- Where Apple ($AAPL) is headed: "every aspect of its consumers' lives." (stratechery.com)
- The rise and fall of McDonald's ($MCD) ex-CEO Don Thompson. (chicagomag.com)
Money
- An excerpt on "financial therapy" from Paul Sullivan's “The Thin Green Line: The Money Secrets of The Super Wealthy.”* (nytimes.com)
- Guy Judkowski's "Short Selling: Cleaning Up After Elephants, An Investor's Guide to Wall Street's Toughest Job." (cleaningupafterelephants.com)
Life
- Is this the true source of addiction? (huffingtonpost.com)
- How losing $2225,000 changed one man's life. (slate.com)
- How one tweet ruined a woman's life. (nytimes.com)
Society
- America doesn't value stuff, hence the profitability of dumpster diving. (wired.com)
- Why hasn't California legalized marijuana yet? (buzzfeed.com)
- Why do reasonable people doubt established science? (ngm.nationalgeographic.com)
- Do the Scandinavians really have it all figured out? (newyorker.com)