Review: Pankaj Mishra’s Age of Anger: A History of the Present probes why everyone is so darn angry. (Businessweek)
Quote of the Day
"Marc Andreessen used to say that software is eating the world. Now, automation is going to eat the world."
(Mark Cuban)
Strategy
- Investing as a brain training exercise. (stockcharts.com)
- Why we need tools to "manage our behavior and improve the quality of our decision-making." (marketfox.org)
Offers
- Yuval Noah Harari's follow up to "Sapiens" is "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" and you can pre-order it today. (amazon.com)
- Robert Cialdini's classic (first) book "Influence: The Science of Persuasion" is still just $1.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
- Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite is currently $20 off. (amazon.com)
Snap
- The Snap ($SNAP) IPO is hype-filled. (theringer.com)
- Snap ($SNAP) is coming public too soon. (medium.com)
- Mark Zuckerberg has Snap envy and will make sure Facebook ($FB) competes. (businessinsider.com)
Finance
- Analysts today need to be able to handle the 'quantamentals.' (businessinsider.com)
- How a one-page form could highlight for consumers the difference between financial advisors and consultants. (medium.com)
- Inside the booming market for "conservation investing." (psmag.com)
Economy
- Not surprisingly policy uncertainty has spiked in the Trump era. (econbrowser.com)
- What CEOs had to say about the economy this week on conference calls. (avondaleam.com)
- A succinct summary of the week's economic events. (ritholtz.com)
- The economic schedule for the coming week. (calculatedriskblog.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Top clicks this week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Saturday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Longform links: scientifc fraud. (abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- Morgan Housel, "Some of the most important parts of the world didn’t exist a generation ago." (collaborativefund.com)
- Seth Godin, "The person who most benefits from your writing might be you." (sethgodin.typepad.com)
- Mike Dariano, "Medium’s simplicity, ease, and beauty is great, but it’s also dangerous." (medium.com)