Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at some lessons learned making hot chili sauce at scale.
Quote of the Day
"Anyone who provides a simple, single reason for something you know is complicated, is probably either stupid, lying or selling you something. These traits are not, alas, mutually exclusive."
(Rusty Guinn)
Longform
- How Yuval Noah Hariri, author of "Sapiens," became a go-to intellectual among the Silicon Valley crowd. (nytimes.com)
- If you were thinking Congress doesn't work the way it used to, you would be right. (washingtonpost.com)
- Controversy surrounds a company looking to be the first company commercializing psilocybin for therapeutic use. (qz.com)
- Medicine is beginning to take the placebo effect more seriously. (nytimes.com)
- Once derided, background music has become ubiquitous and a big business. (theguardian.com)
- A profile of the American grandmaster who is looking to become world chess champion. (fivethirtyeight.com)
- How Alfonzo McKinnie went from undrafted, to Luxembourg to a rotation player for the Golden State Warriors. (theundefeated.com)