Thursdays are all about longform links here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at the rise of assortative mating.
Finance
- A eulogy for CME pit traders. (features.wearemel.com)
- A dozen things learned about investing from South Park. (25iq.com)
- How the SEC inadvertently opened the door to the ETF: an excerpt from Eric Balchunas' "The Institutional ETF Toolbox."* (bloomberg.com)
- A profile of David Rubenstein of Carlyle Group and the carried interest loophole. (newyorker.com)
- What's next for Bitcoin? (stratechery.com)
Companies
- How SnapChat built an actual business. (bloomberg.com)
- The radical management experiment at Zappos has left the company reeling. (fortune.com)
- Medium is for now an oasis of civility. (bbc.com)
- The cult of Wawa. (mashable.com)
Non-finance
- The world is far more random that we like to believe. (undark.org)
- Portland, Oregon is the Silicon Valley of footwear. (businessoffashion.com)
- Conventions are the hot new thing for all manner of interest groups. (wsj.com)
- The eternal boom that is Austin, Texas. (texasmonthly.com)
- Why do we work so hard? It's complicated. (1843magazine.com)
- Francis Ford Coppola on the secret of life. (vanityfair.com)