Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at how we look at luck and whether it exists in the first place.
Business and finance
- 12 lessons for business from the life of Tupac Shakur. (25iq.com)
- A big profile of noted hedge fund manager Paul Singer of Elliott Management fame (newyorker.com)
- A profile of Abby Johnson of Fidelity as she pivots the company in a new direction. (bostonmagazine.com)
- Who killed Toys 'R Us? It's complicated... (wsj.com)
Society
- Americans buy so much stuff they have to rent self-storage units to put it somewhere. (theatlantic.com)
- Rural Canada is undergoing some of the same issues seen in rural America. (macleans.ca)
- Heroin has come for middle class, suburban moms. (marieclaire.com)
Longform
- Why incumbent media firms have been so slow to wake to the threat from streaming. (variety.com)
- How TripAdvisor ($TRIP) changed travel forever. (theguardian.com)
- Yuval Noah Hariri on what the world may look like in 2050. (wired.co.uk)
- Mental health issues like depression are in fashion, but loneliness is still not spoken of. (1843magazine.com)
- Why we love to recycle even though its environmental impact is de minimis. (thewalrus.ca)
- If honeybees can't do the job of pollination, farmers are looking to other species to get the job done. (nytimes.com)
