Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at farmers moving up the value chain.
Quote of the Day
"So the next time you find yourself annoyed with your colleagues, angry at other drivers on the road, or judgmental about people standing in line at the store, use it as an opportunity to challenge your negative assumptions and try to interpret the situation in a more respectful and generous way."
(Shane Parrish)
Finance
- Why don't more women run mutual funds? (nytimes.com)
- Active management is getting dismantled brick by brick. (ft.com)
- The rise of the professional Airbnb investor. (priceonomics.com)
Medicine
- How the Mayo Clinic solves patient's problems better and more efficiently. (farnamstreetblog.com)
- Medicine tends to glorify heroic measures relative to everyday, ongoing care. (newyorker.com)
- The battle over opioids is putting chronic pain patients at-risk. (statnews.com)
- How Iceland has radically cut teen drug, alcohol and smoking. (digg.com)
Decision making
- The world is losing faith in statistics which is a bad, bad thing. (theguardian.com)
- Certainty is a big red flag. (thewaiterspad.com)
- Why is it so hard to forecast the future? (25iq.com)
Longform
- How 3G squeezes profits from food companies like Kraft Heinz ($KHC). (fortune.com)
- The music industry is once again growing. (ft.com)
- Who are the winners in the great unbundling of the media? (stratechery.com)
- The US Digital Service did yeoman's work the past eight years. (backchannel.com)
- Susan Cain and Sheryl Sandberg talk about leadership and introversion. (heleo.com)
- This company is trying to turn a problem, invasive Asian carp, into a business. (bloomberg.com)