Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the importance of CRISPR.
Lessons
- Don't let tools and categorizations blind us to the real world. (thinkadvisor.com)
- On the dangers of reading only what is new. (farnamstreetblog.com)
- Animals sleep. Humans get up and go to work. (brainpickings.org)
The Undoing Project
- An excerpt from "The Undoing Project" on how ER doctors avoid dumb mistakes. (qz.com)
- A conversation with Michael Lewis author of "The Undoing Project" about pioneering psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. (theatlantic.com)
Food
- Will vertical farms be able to feed city dwellers? (newyorker.com)
- Aquaculture, like farmed fish in Iowa, may be the oceans' last hope for survival. (motherjones.com)
- America's golden age of restaurants is coming to an end. (thrillist.com)
Longform
- A new Michael Mauboussin white paper, this time on the active-passive ecosystem, is always worthy of note. (hurricanecapital.wordpress.com)
- America still makes stuff. (theatlantic.com)
- China is home to the world's fastest elevators. (washingtonpost.com)
- Adobe Flash is dying. Is it worth saving? (qz.com)
- Greenland is losing its glaciers. (washingtonpost.com)
- What we lost in the air travel age. (bloomberg.com)
- What are the true factors behind increased longevity in the so-called "Blue Zones"? (medium.com)
- A. J. Daulerio tells his side of the Hulk Hogan/Gawker story. (esquire.com)
- Cameron Crowe looks back at "Jerry Maguire" twenty years in. (deadline.com)