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.
Quote of the Day
"Throughout history, automation commonly creates more, and better-paying, jobs than it destroys."
(Greg Ip)
Finance
- Robert Seawright, "Finding truth can be really hard, in music, in politics and in investing." (rpseawright.wordpress.com)
- A dozen lessons about investing and money from Dan Ariely. (25iq.com)
- If profit margins are too high shouldn't they have crashed by now? (philosophicaleconomics.com)
- What SoftBank’s $100 billion Vision Fund means to the future of investing. (collaborativefund.com)
- Howard Marks takes on his critics. (oaktreecapital.com)
Non-finance
- Overcoming a stutter is a lifelong battle. (collaborativefund.com)
- The way to avoid reciprocation bias is to not accept a 'favor' in the first place. (farnamstreetblog.com)
- Don't let non-linear outcomes trip you up. (hbr.org)
- Fighter pilot John Boyd changed how fighter pilots operate. (richardhughesjones.com)
- The technology keeps advancing towards a treatment for paralysis. (outsideonline.com)
- The story of Juicero's rise and fall. (bloomberg.com)
- Studios should stop dissing Rotten Tomatoes and start making better movies. (nytimes.com)