Fridays are all about podcast links here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at whether the Fed should have bailed out Lehman Brothers.
The biz
Author talks
- Barry Ritholtz talks with Gianni Kovacevic author of “My Electrician Drives a Porsche?: Investing in the Rise of the New Spending Class." (ritholtz.com)
- Adam Kucharski author of "The Perfect Bet" visits Talks at Google. (youtube.com)
- Ryan Holiday author of "The Ego is the Enemy" visits Talks at Google. (youtube.com)
- A talk with Virginia Heffernan author of "Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art." (recode.net)
Episodes
- Gavyn Davies and Tyler Cowen discuss the productivity puzzle. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
- Jerry Colonna, Brad Feld and Fred Wilson talk 20 years of startup wisdom. (reboot.io)
- Episodes of sudden car acceleration are entirely driver-related. (revisionisthistory.com)
- How can pirates get insurance on their boats? (bloomberg.com)
- Can a game show ever really lose? (npr.org)
- Ten ideas to make politics less worse. (freakonomics.com)
- A surprisingly diverse discussion of the meaning of emoji. (a16z.com)
- Shane Parrish talks with sommelier Véronique Rivest. (farnamstreetblog.com)