Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at how the orthodontics industry is getting disrupted by online competitors.
Quote of the Day
"(O)ur judgments about luck are inconsistent and changeable, the predictable result of framing effects and idiosyncratic personality traits. "
(Steven Hales)
Investing
- How subscription models are changing business and investing. (25iq.com)
- A profile of Joseph Edelman and his super-successful biotechnology hedge fund firm, Perceptive Advisors. (institutionalinvestor.com)
Business
- A profile of Nick Millington chief product officer of Sonos ($SONO). (wired.com)
- How AI is going to change HR. (fastcompany.com)
- This company "has tremendous influence over the marine ecology of the entire East Coast..." (institutionalinvestor.com)
The future of HBO
Longform
- How Bill Browder became Vladimir Putin and Russia's most wanted man. (newyorker.com)
- The brain fills in what our eyes can't see. An excerpt from Nick Chater's book "The Mind is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain." (wsj.com)
- Why it is so difficult to see Leonardo da Vinci's art with fresh eyes. (weeklystandard.com)
- Everyone knows an asteroid killed the dinosaurs. Well, not so fast... (theatlantic.com)