Recommendation: Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans is “a gem amid self-help dross.” (Tim Harford)
Quote of the Day
"We should be embracing energy efficiency and the low-carbon economy as fast as we can. Pick whatever reasons you like: jobs, national security, human health, money. Even pick the environment. But leave climate change out of it. We don’t need it. Any of it."
(Rob Jackson)
Autos
- The case for driving a nice car. (financialsamurai.com)
- Audi is buying car rental company Silvercar. (bloomberg.com)
Energy
- Radiative cooling or how to keep a building cool without air conditioning. (economist.com)
- 2016 was a record year for renewable energy. (newscientist.com)
Travel
- Airlines make more money selling miles than actual seats. (bloomberg.com)
- Discount carriers are opening up Europe to cheap flights. (wsj.com)
- Climate change is going to make your flights bumpier. (washingtonpost.com)
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Health
Food
- How food trends (gluten-free, anti-sugar and pro-butter) affect producers. (ft.com)
- Catch share programs are making fishing more logical. (npr.org)
- You can now grow vegetables at your condo in Brooklyn. (wsj.com)
- Breaking down the costs of various fast food items. (priceonomics.com)
- Fine dining in a hospital? Why not... (marginalrevolution.com)
- Why food tastes better on vacation. (nymag.com)
Sports
- Batting orders are gotten shaken up in baseball. (theringer.com)
- Coaches are complaining that youth baseball is failing its players by not teaching the basics. (nytimes.com)
- Where will the Ruthian-Shohei Otani play next? (qz.com)
Entertainment
- Youtube's streaming TV service has launched. (theverge.com)
- Comparing the various online TV services. (qz.com)
- The music industry has bottomed out revenue-wise. (ft.com)
Offers
- Purchase the well-reviewed "Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life" by Susan David for just $1.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
- The business classic "Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco" by Bryan Burroughs and John Helyar is still $1.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
- The Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi classic "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" is currently just $1.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: an improved understanding. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: effective behavior change. (abnormalreturns.com)
- The ongoing challenge of content generation (and curation). (abnormalreturns.com)
Undergraduate
- Are elite colleges worth it? (theatlantic.com)
- What college affordability look like. (washingtonpost.com)
- When it make sense to get an unusual college letter of recommendation. (nytimes.com)
Graduate school
- Business schools are becoming much more entrepreneur-friendly. (wsj.com)
- How to get into your PhD program of choice. (qz.com)
Kids
- When kids are able to mow the lawn. (wsj.com)
- School districts are having a hard time hiring bus drivers. (wsj.com)
