Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at whether consumer recycling really does any good.
Incentives
- You can't go too far wrong overestimating the power of incentives to drive human behavior. (thereformedbroker.com)
- How much of philanthropic giving goes to shape public policy? No one really knows. (newyorker.com)
Internet
- Lessons learned about traveling in the age of the Internet. (perell.com)
- Why skimming became the new reading. (theguardian.com)
Video
- Why the big streaming services throw around the term "Original Series" so readily. (redef.com)
- Why romantic comedies matter. (vox.com)
Longform
- There is no evidence that personality tests like Myers-Briggs have any validity. (theringer.com)
- How America became a nation of mattress stores. (citylab.com)
- Scientists are looking far (and deep) for rare bacteria to help combat antibiotic resistance. (wired.co.uk)
- Lego wants to make toys that don't jeopardize the environment. (nytimes.com)
- How Juuling became a verb. (nytimes.com)