Thursdays are all about longform links here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at the use of psychedelics in treating depression.
Quote of the Day
"Antidepressants work—not all the time, and not for all people, but in lots of ways for lots of people."
(Peter Kramer)
Companies
- Amazon ($AMZN) is eating downtown Seattle. (bloomberg.com)
- A profile of Kevin Plank CEO of Under Armour ($UA). (bloomberg.com)
- The future of the auto industry is totally up in the air. (fortune.com)
Sports
- Katie Ledecky is a distance swimmer with a sprinter's mentality. (washingtonpost.com)
- Michael Phelps is on a personal journey that just happens to go through Rio. (nytimes.com)
- Every baseball team wants their own Theo Epstein. (theringer.com)
- A profile of Sam Hinkie the former GM of the Philadephia 76ers. (espn.go.com)
- A profile of Jim Gray, sports Zelig. (theringer.com)
Longform
- Words of wisdom for aspiring value investors. (latticework.com)
- Brexit happened in part because the EU was unable to deal with modernity. (stratechery.com)
- AI will eventually be available on demand via API. (ben-evans.com)
- Information technology is taking over agriculture. (economist.com)
- Natural talent is not everything. An adaptation from K. Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool's "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise." (qz.com)
- Bill James, yes that Bill James, talks true crime and OJ. (newyorker.com)
- Lessons learned from Whit Stillman's cult classic "The Last Days of Disco." (anothermag.com)
