Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look the regulation (or not) of ziplines.
Quote of the Day
"Most economics claims are really not verifiable or replicable."
(Russ Roberts)
Modern life
- Use it or lose it. Modern life is allowing certain skills to dissipate. (bbc.com)
- A conversation with Elizabeth Kolbert and Matthieu Ricard about simply slowing down. (garrisoninstitute.org)
- Middle aged men are facing a loneliness crisis. (bostonglobe.com)
Curation
- Our entertainment choices are exploding but our ability to sort through them is limited. (economist.com)
- The term 'curator' is wildly overused these days. (thebaffler.com)
Longform
- How many of the 8,000+ hedge funds are worth investing in? (blogs.cfainstitute.org)
- On the parallels between Amazon's ($AMZN) Alexa and the Apple ($AAPL) Watch. (ben-evans.com)
- Is better to be poor in Bangladesh or the Mississippi Delta? A discussion with Angus Deaton. (theatlantic.com)
- "Neanderthals were thriving from Siberia to southern Spain by the time a few families of modern humans made it out of Africa around 60,000 years ago." (digg.com)
- Big tobacco is now in the nicotine delivery business. (bloomberg.com)
- What it's like to be a big-time college basketball ref. (chicagotribune.com)
