Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the dearth of big ideas holding back the economy.
Investing
- We are all flawed and fragile. Our portfolios should reflect this. (rpseawright.wordpress.com)
- Why most college endowments go wrong emulating the Yale Model. (fortune.com)
- South Carolina's pension fund mess is a warning sign for the rest of the country. (alephblog.com)
- A review of Michael Burry's investment philosophy. (pandaagriculturefund.com)
Technology
- Mobile is eating the world. (ben-evans.com)
- Technology is reorganizing itself around AI and machine learning. (nytimes.com)
- A look inside Amazon's Mechanical Turk. (techrepublic.com)
- Which media sites are the most popular on the Internet? (priceonomics.com)
Longform
- The numbers that show the American Dream is on life support. (wsj.com)
- The human side of trade. (medium.com)
- On the enduring power of the Goldman Sachs ($GS) mystique. (washingtonpost.com)
- Napoleon Hill, author of "Think and Grow Rich" was a lifelong fraud. (paleofuture.gizmodo.com)
- A profile of Ryan Holiday the modern day flag carrier for Stoicism. (nytimes.com)
- We need more research into the role sugar plays in metabolic disease. (wsj.com)
- A doctor's guide on how to get more sleep. (theatlantic.com)
- How mimickry can work (for awhile). (farnamstreetblog.com)
- What makes things cool. (theatlantic.com)
