Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the demise of RSS.
Technology
- Roger McNamee, former Facebook ($FB) board member and author of "Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe" takes the firm to task for its many failings. (time.com)
- LiveJournal was the "Linux of social media" until its demise. (arstechnica.com)
- A profile of Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg as they build mobile video startup Quibi. (fortune.com)
Work
- Tech workers are beginning to organize around social goals. (story.californiasunday.com)
- Mandatory arbitration is a tough go for America's employees. (bloomberg.com)
- How companies are gaming their Glassdoor ratings. (wsj.com)
Football
- The debate over the dangers of youth football is hot and heavy in the state of California. (theringer.com)
- Football is facing an existential threat: the absence of insurance. (espn.com)
Longform
- How Jack Bogle's biggest career mistake led to the founding of Vanguard. (theirrelevantinvestor.com)
- Rural America's water supply is getting contaminated by farm byproducts. (wsj.com)
- We can try and formalize our personal decision making but there will always be uncertainties. (bostonreview.net)
- A first hand account of what it is like to go on carnivore diet for a month. (outsideonline.com)
- How poverty is like a disease. (nautil.us)