Review: Tom Verducci’s The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Brekaing the Curse “offers extraordinary access to the inner workings of the Cubs. ” (WSJ)
Quote of the Day
"The truth is that truth was never high on the agenda of Homo sapiens."
(Yuval Noah-Harari)
Autos
- Why are German consumers reluctant to get on board with electric vehicles? (qz.com)
- Check out a hybrid Ford ($F) cop car. (wired.com)
- Are we at Peak Auto? (fortune.com)
Energy
- Solar panels are now cheap enough to own not lease. (wsj.com)
- What comes after this recent success for solar? (arstechnica.com)
Climate
- Japanese cheery blossom trees and the case for climate change. (kottke.org)
- The Colorado River is at risk. (wsj.com)
Air travel
- Airlines treat passengers badly because they can. (buzzfeed.com)
- How big a problem is overbooking? (ft.com)
- United ($UAL) passengers are boozing it up in business class. (qz.com)
- Regional travel could soon occur on small electric jets. (washingtonpost.com)
Offers
- Need some new tunes? Start a free-trial to Amazon Music Unlimited. (amazon.com)
- Need an extra tablet around the house? Get Amazon's best-selling Fires for $10 to $20 off. (amazon.com)
- Start a 6 month free trial to Amazon Prime Student and get $15 off a $40 order. (amazon.com)
Technology
- Facebook apps are bloated. (daringfireball.net)
- Do you need a "big ass" battery backup? (theverge.com)
- Fingerprint sensors can be hacked pretty easily. (nytimes.com)
- Warehouses are a huge opportunity for robots. (bloomberg.com)
Mesh wi-fi
- All the cool kids have a new mesh wi-fi router in their homes. (wired.com)
- Check out all the mesh wi-fi systems Amazon has to offer. (amazon.com)
Public health
- West Virginia is about to legalize medical marijuana. This could help with the opioid crisis. (vox.com)
- How behavioral economics can help improve health outcomes. (nytimes.com)
Medicine
- What is concierge medicine? (businessinsider.com)
- Some surgery centers are going cash-only. (businessinsider.com)
Health
- Forget young blood, think young microbiome. (scientificamerican.com)
- Vitamin D is overrated. (nytimes.com)
- Why you should take your shoes off in the house. (wsj.com)
Longevity
- How to age (well) like an athlete. (weforum.org)
- Want to live longer? Run. (nytimes.com)
- Does fasting work? If so, how to do it? (wsj.com)
Food
- Who makes Trader Joe's food items? (sfgate.com)
- At what point does coffee get too fancy? (nytimes.com)
- How waiters want to be treated (according to waiters). (vice.com)
Drink
- Beer-of-the-month clubs are becoming a thing. (wsj.com)
- Why you need a Japanese Single Malt Whiskey in your liquor cabinet. (bloomberg.com)
- A conversation with Josh Bernstein, the dean of craft beer writers. (longreads.com)
- Are big beer mergers ruining the industry? (fortune.com)
Sports
- A profile of two-way baseball player Shohei Ohtani. (cbsnews.com)
- Pitchers are ditching the windup. (wsj.com)
Billions
- A Q&A with "Billions" co-creators, writers and executive producers Brian Koppelman and David Levien. (inc.com)
- You can get a free trial to Showtime Channels. (amazon.com)
Entertainment
- Amazon ($AMZN) is not messing around with original video content. (statista.com)
- YouTube's new streaming service could reinvent the 30-second commercial. (latimes.com)
- Has streaming killed the truly independent film? (theringer.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: hacked hackathons. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What pitching from the stretch has to do with investing. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: tracking peace. (abnormalreturns.com)
- A round-up of all of the book links from the past month: April edition. (abnormalreturns.com)
College
- Single female MBA students downplay their career ambitions. (news.harvard.edu)
- Colleges should schedule their classes later in the day. (qz.com)
- Which graduate degree holders pay off their loans soonest? (priceonomics.com)
