Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the origins of greed and fear.
Investing
- How Branch Rickey and David Swensen changed their respective fields. (epsilontheory.com)
- Post GFC, the single family home rental market has become increasingly corporatized...and that is not necessarily a good thing. (theatlantic.com)
- A profile of Kunal Kapoor, CEO of Morningstar ($MSTR). (chicagobooth.edu)
Technology
- Good luck trying to get by without using a product of one of the big five tech companies. (gizmodo.com)
- AR is the next big tech platform. (wired.com)
- Stanford University, and its students, are coming to terms with its outsized role in technology today. (theringer.com)
- Is Google's ($GOOGL) Waymo going down the path of other failed Silicon Valley giants? (arstechnica.com)
Science
- Scientists are rethinking animal cognition. (theatlantic.com)
- What its going to take to find a treatment for super gonorrhea. (wired.co.uk)
- Is e-mail making professors stupid? (chronicle.com)
Food
- Beluga caviar is really expensive. Which is why people try to pass off other stuff as the real thing. (longreads.com)
- Pamela Druckerman, "Bread is still an integral part of French identity." (1843magazine.com)
Longreads
- How the Times-Sotheby Index transformed the art market. (hyperallergic.com)
- Is journalism dead or just the idea of 'objective' journalism? (wired.com)
- A profile of Julia Cameron and the enduring success of her "The Artist's Way." (nytimes.com)
- This does a great job breaking down the lessons of James Clear's "Atomic Habits." (radreads.co)
- The NFL wants to keep its broadcast partners on message, hence the case of Bob Costas. (espn.com)
- A profile of the lawyer suing Led Zeppelin over copyright infringement. (phillymag.com)
- A look at the contradiction that was the late Alex Chilton. (theringer.com)