Excerpt: Women in Silicon Valley get hit on 24/7 from Emily Chang’s Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boy’s Club of Silicon Valley. (Fortune)
Quote of the Day
"The super-successful people I know are usually nicer, more generous, and generally better mannered. The billionaire jerk portrayed in movies and TV is mostly a cartoon — animation of something that isn’t real."
(Scott Galloway)
Autos
- Autonomous vehicles will work best as a part of fleets. (popsci.com)
- How autonomous vehicles will shuffle the urban real estate market. (bloomberg.com)
Energy
- Why big utilities are embracing solar and wind power. (mobile.nytimes.com)
- Why installing solar panels is fun. (mrmoneymustache.com)
Water
- Cape Town will not be the last major city than runs out of water. (washingtonpost.com)
- A shocking number of chemical facilities are at risk of flooding. (nytimes.com)
- New Orleans is sinking and it can't be stopped. (theatlantic.com)
Technology
- We may have reached peak smartphone. (washingtonpost.com)
- We really don't have good data on how much we are using voice UI, like Alexa or Siri. (mondaynote.com)
- The introduction of 5G wireless networks will be a game-changer. (ft.com)
Influenza
- On the search for a universal flu vaccine. (wsj.com)
- Tamiflu is soon to get some much needed competition. (bloomberg.com)
Health
- What loneliness does to the body. (medium.com)
- In praise of leafy greens. (npr.org)
- How fake surgeries suss out unnecessary surgeries. (scientificamerican.com)
- Paid sick leave is a good investment for companies. (nytimes.com)
- Noise pollution may increase the risk of heart disease. (washingtonpost.com)
- Advice for those over 40: lift weights and eat more protein. (nytimes.com)
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Restaurants
- Are delivery apps killing the restaurant? (newyorker.com)
- Some cool maps on the favorite restaurants of Americans. (pudding.cool)
Food
- Coffee seems to be good for us in moderate doses: the question is why? (washingtonpost.com)
- PepsiCo ($PEP) is pushing into the fizzy water business. (nytimes.com)
- Why American farmers keep planting so much wheat and corn. (blogs.wsj.com)
- Why hummus prices are on the rise. (nytimes.com)
- Tear-free onions are here. (npr.org)
Subtances
- How to sort through all the new types of craft beers. (wsj.com)
- Canadian companies are gearing up to take cannabis global. (business.financialpost.com)
Kindle deals
- "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness" by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein is just $1.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
- "Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work" by Chip and Dan Heath is just $1.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
MLB
- Why the MLB off-season has been so quiet. (washingtonpost.com)
- Who's to blame for the quiet MLB off-season. (wsj.com)
Weddings
- Amazon ($AMZN) has built a big suite of tools to help plan a wedding. (businessinsider.com)
- Be kind: don't ask people to serve in your wedding party. (nytimes.com)
Kids
- Talking through a child’s troubles is healthy in moderation...but avoid "co-rumination." (wsj.com)
- Screen addiction may or may not be a thing, but there are ways to deal with the issue. (npr.org)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: a big illusion. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: thinking in bets. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Why language matters when discussing volatile markets. (abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- Can you still date a co-workers? It's complicated. (wsj.com)
- Putting “May It Last,” a documentary, directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio, about the folk-rock band the Avett Brothers on the list. (newyorker.com)
- Brexit is not deterring foreign students from applying to British universities. (qz.com)
