Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including the story of Juicero’s rise (and fall).
Quote of the Day
"While pursuing wealth is unequivocally desirable, having wealth is not simple and straightforward."
(Rachel Sherman)
Finance
- Robert Seawright, "Stories are culture’s way of teaching us what is important." (rpseawright.wordpress.com)
- Is Bridgewater Associates a "hedge fund or social experiment"? (nytimes.com)
- Finance is a technology that made civilization possible. (blogs.cfainstitute.org)
- Why love and loath the character of Gordon Gekko. (review.chicagobooth.edu)
Amazon
- An army of retirees in RVs helps keep the Amazon ($AMZN) machine running. (wired.com)
- How Amazon's use of robots is changing the work equation in its warehouses. (nytimes.com)
Big Tech
- We don't need to accept the power of Big Tech as a fait accompli. (washingtonpost.com)
- The words 'big tech' and 'anti-trust' are getting bandied about more frequently. (buzzfeed.com)
Food
- Why did our hunter-gatherer ancestors switch to farming? (newyorker.com)
- Rising CO2 levels are affecting (negatively) the nutritional content of the food we grow. (politico.com)
Longform
- A dozen lessons about business and life from Jimmy Iovine. (25iq.com)
- Why its best to think about cities as complex adaptive systems. (farnamstreetblog.com)
- Why you shouldn't idolize Mark Felt, i.e. 'Deep Throat' or Watergate fame. (politico.com)
- How can you find yourself if 'the self' is an elusive concept? (aeon.co)
- What it was like to attend the iPhone event at the new Steve Jobs Theater. (recode.net)
- In defense of bourgeois values. (nymag.com)
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