Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the declining power and influence of the IRS.
Innovation
- Snap's ($SNAP) success and relative failure can be traced to Evan Spiegel. (wsj.com)
- Eroom's law and Moore's law: what happens to economic growth if R&D productivity is in decline? (softmachines.org)
Finance
- The downside of having Wall Street as your landlord. (washingtonpost.com)
- When a private equity-owned company goes bankrupt and the only losers are pensioners. (washingtonpost.com)
Longform
- 1989 was a year of hope: the reality of 2018 is quite different. (wsj.com)
- How American parenting became an all-consuming endeavor. (nytimes.com)
- How worried should we be about Netflix's ($NFLX) dominance? (ft.com)
- Why music publications have gone by the wayside. (longreads.com)
- Michael Pollan on the impossibility of writing about a psychadelic trip. (nytimes.com)