Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the most modern ‘cult of convenience.’
Quote of the Day
"When we think in advance about the chances of alternative outcomes and make a decision based on those chances, it doesn’t automatically make us wrong when things don’t work out."
(Annie Duke)
Longform links
- Why the idea of a well-run, risk-managed 'Lehman Sisters' is an illusion. (ft.com)
- Consumer product good companies are having to adapt to a whole range of upstarts. (ft.com)
- What might the Amazon, Berkshire and JP Morgan health care joint venture actually do? (25iq.com)
- A profile of polymath Nathan Myhrvold. (1843magazine.com)
- Louisiana's coastline is getting re-absorbed by the sea. What, if anything, should we do about it? (nytimes.com)
- Chef David Chang on why some food-types need to get over themselves. (fastcompany.com)
- Inside the high stakes world of color forecasting. (nytimes.com)
- Extremists, of all kinds, are childish. (markmanson.net)
- How to raise more grateful children. (wsj.com)