Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including at the return of LSD.
Quote of the Day
"It’s possible to fall in love with somebody who sucks for us and our happiness."
(Mark Manson)
Business
- This time is different. Why a third quant crisis is not imminent. (institutionalinvestorsalpha.com)
- A dozen lessons about product (and services) pricing. (25iq.com)
- A history of the rise (and fall) of Sears. (nytimes.com)
- There is little evidence that robots will take away our jobs. (wired.com)
- How Driscolls became the Apple of the strawberry business. (newyorker.com)
The brain
- We are living in the distractable age. (medium.com)
- Can we use big data to quantify happiness? (outsideonline.com)
- On the relationship between obesity and depression. (politico.com)
Blinkist
Longform
- Starting conditions matter: on the butterfly effect. (farnamstreetblog.com)
- How 'inverting your thinking' can give you perspective. (rpseawright.wordpress.com)
- We are not bumping up against any natural limits on human performance. (nautil.us)
- How a couple of data centers boosted the small town of Prineville, Oregon. (outsideonline.com)
- The World Microsoft ($MSFT) Office Games are a real thing. (theverge.com)
