Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including at the plentiful challenge of romantic love.
Technology
- The tech giants continue to push their way into our personal lives. (lrb.co.uk)
- What would a healthy (financially) streaming music service look like? (25iq.com)
- Tristan Harris wants to rescue us from our smartphones. (wired.com)
Bias blindness
- Whether we know it or not we battle our biases daily. (rpseawright.wordpress.com)
- Under what conditions is 'finding the truth' possible? (philosophicaleconomics.com)
Rotten Tomatoes
- Rotten Tomatoes is becoming the scapegoat for the poor performance of bad movies. (theringer.com)
- Rotten Tomatoes has a big influence when critics go one way or another. (variety.com)
Longform
- The Sequioa Fund was the best mutual fund in history, then Valeant ($VRX) happened. (washingtonpost.com)
- Richard Florida was a cheerleader for the 'creative class.' Now he admits he was wrong. (jacobinmag.com)
- How kids sports became a big business. (time.com)
- How Rich Roll went from alcoholic to endurance athlete. (heleo.com)
- Always go to the funeral. (epsilontheory.com)
