Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the pros and cons of gene therapy.
Business
- A dozen business lessons from iconic Waffle House. (25iq.com)
- Lessons learned from reading every Google ($GOOGL) shareholder letter. (blog.usejournal.com)
- A look at the long decline of Sears Holdings ($SHLD). (wsj.com)
Technology
- The pace and scale of technology is such that our brains may not keep up unaided. (wsj.com)
- The story behind the birth of PowerPoint. (spectrum.ieee.org)
Politics
- Michael Lewis on the Trump Administration's 'stunning unqualified' appointees. (vanityfair.com)
- Russian spies live among us. How a couple fooled the Seattle crowd. (seattlemet.com)
Longform
- How not to get sucked into a bubble. (collaborativefund.com)
- How one writer lost $30,000 in Bitcoin (now probably more) due to a lost PIN. (wired.com)
- Lab-grown diamonds are an existential threat to diamond mining. (ft.com)
- Ugh. Scavengers are stripping WWII era shipwrecks in the Pacific. (theguardian.com)