Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including at the growing power in the movie business of Rotten Tomatoes.
Finance and Economics
- A dozen attributes of a scalable business. (25iq.com)
- Subject matter expertise and critical thinking skill are two different things. (rpseawright.wordpress.com)
- In defense of economists. (wsj.com)
Technology
- Why forecasting the future of technology is so difficult. (timharford.com)
- Computers have made gerrymandering way too easy. (nytimes.com)
Longform
- How physics can help model networks like Al Qaeda. (quantamagazine.org)
- The Biotech Institute is quietly amassing a pile of (legal) marijuana-related patents. (gq.com)
- Tasers were supposed to prevent deaths. Unfortunately they are associated with a bunch of fatalities. (reuters.com)
- The battle over the existence of a mid-life crisis is ongoing. (bloomberg.com)
- A profile of Aaron Rodgers and his search for "something more." (espn.com)
- Ed Cunningham walked away from his job announcing football games due to the CTE issue. (nytimes.com)
- An oral history of the comedy 'Superbad.' (theringer.com)
- Why do people hike? (nybooks.com)
