Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the stock buyback ‘shell game.’
Quote of the Day
"The problem, of course, is that while blockchain applications make sense in theory, the road to them becoming a reality is still a long one."
(Ben Thompson)
Finance and Economics
- A dozen lessons learned about money and investing from Kendrick Lamar. (25iq.com)
- What it will take to 'mainstream' behavioral economics? (voxeu.org)
Apple
- Apple ($AAPL) is not a tech company. (aboveavalon.com)
- How charger company Anker is taking on Apple ($AAPL) and Samsung. (theverge.com)
Sponsored link
Food
- Want to learn where all the Las Vegas buffet leftovers go? (eater.com)
- In California, nut theft is a big problem. (outsideonline.com)
- Yoplait once owned the yogurt category. What happened next? (fortune.com)
Clothing
Longform
- The great London property squeeze. (theguardian.com)
- How to not raise a spoiled child. (townandcountrymag.com)
- Can Ev Williams make Medium.com a thing? (nytimes.com)
- How life, as we know it, came to be on Earth: successive energy expansions. (theatlantic.com)
- Human beings are a future looking species. (nytimes.com)