Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the big role consultants play in institutional investment management.
Quote of the Day
"The explosion of information has undermined and obsoleted the 20th-century organizational model."
(Dave Perell)
Tech
- You can't easily break up the Big Tech companies, but you can do these three things. (stratechery.com)
- Your photos are being used to train facial recognition software without your consent. (nbcnews.com)
- Why Facebook ($FB) can't escape this cycle of exposure and outrage. (bloomberg.com)
Health
- How the US failed to curb the use of fentanyl early on in the crisis. (washingtonpost.com)
- An excerpt from Eric Topol's new book "Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again" (wired.com)
Scandal
- How the big, college admissions scandal unfolded. (wsj.com)
- That time when Elon Musk tried to destroy a Tesla ($TSLA) whistleblower. (bloomberg.com)
Longform
- The big Vanity Fair profile of Beto. (vanityfair.com)
- Want to launder some dirty money? Think European banks. (bloomberg.com)
- What it took to find the USS Wasp, sunk during WWII. (nytimes.com)
- A takedown of Nassim Taleb's "Anti-fragile." (falkenblog.blogspot.com)
- A profile of, 'that guy,' actor David Costabile who plays Wags from "Billions." (theringer.com)