Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the newly completed Flight 93 Memorial.
Quote of the Day
"Amazon, as much as any single company, is transforming the environments in which we live and embedding itself within the fabric of daily existence."
(Drew Austin)
Investing
- Are individual investors getting left behind as more companies stay private, longer? (theirrelevantinvestor.com)
- Cliff Asness looks at the tough times quantitative factor-based liquid alts have had of late. (aqr.com)
Sports
- The NFL: it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. (bloomberg.com)
- Is The Athletic just your local sports section, re-done? (slate.com)
Psychology
- Is there something unique about mountain towns and high rates of suicide? (outsideonline.com)
- How treating anxiety has become an industry unto itself. (vox.com)
Society
- Don't kid yourself. AI is going to have a huge impact on society. (wsj.com)
- Why is college so darn expensive in the US compared to the rest of the world? (theatlantic.com)
- It's hard to see how the opioid crisis happens without Purdue Pharmaceutical's big sales push. (ft.com)
Longform
- 12 lessons on risk and uncertainty from Richard Zeckhauser. (25iq.com)
- Larry Page, CEO of Alphabet ($GOOGL), is missing in action. (bloomberg.com)
- The cover defined the magazine era. Can its influence continue? (theringer.com)
- Is there any distinction between 'high' and 'low' pleasures? (aeon.co)
- What facts don't change minds. (jamesclear.com)
