Thursdays are all about longform links here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at how mean reversion rules the world.
Longform links
- Why money only fleetingly buys happiness. (economist.com)
- The start-up boom is running into the IPO window. (ft.com)
- The democratization of "Uberization" of finance is inevitable. (wsj.com)
- A Barry Ritholtz presentation on "why investors misunderstand risk." (ritholtz.com)
- Baby Boomers trashed the US economy. (washingtonpost.com)
- Why scientists need to fail better. (nautil.us)
- The discovery of statistical regression. (priceonomics.com)
- Have we learned the wrong lessons from the demise of Grantland? (stratechery.com)
- Why books, among all other media, are dangerous. (aeon.co)
- 8 things learned from Judd Apatow. (thewaiterspad.com)
- 100 of the best longform articles from the past year via The Browser. (thebrowser.com)