Thursdays are all about longform links here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at the meaning of negative yields.
Yahoo
- Marissa Mayer misspent her vast capital at Yahoo ($YHOO). (thewaiterspad.com)
- 18 lessons learned from the demise of Yahoo ($YHOO). (ritholtz.com)
Excerpts
- An excerpt from Ed Yong's "I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life." (smithsonianmag.com)
- Excerpts from “Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency,” by James Andrew Miller. (mobile.nytimes.com)
Lessons learned
- A dozen things learned about business and strategy from Andy Grove. (25iq.com)
- Three lessons learned from a discussion with Jack Schwager author of the "Market Wizards" series of books. (thewaiterspad.com)
- Lessons learned from Ashlee Vance's "Elon Musk: Inventing the Future." (hurricanecapital.wordpress.com)
Longform
- ETFs are great. What are the systematic downsides? (moneyandbanking.com)
- Information overload: why we need to disconnect. (digitalculturist.com)
- How exhaustion became a status symbol. (newrepublic.com)
- How drones could help transform Africa. (theguardian.com)
- Rats cost humans a great deal. Why we need to know a whole lot more about their behavior. (washingtonpost.com)
- Who buys legal weed? (priceonomics.com)