Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at how Baby Boomers ruined America.
Quote of the Day
"On your journey to greatness, you need to fall in love with the process which includes many local minima and maxima."
(Steph Smith)
Companies
- Disney ($DIS) dominates the movie business like few others have before. (buzzfeednews.com)
- A profile of Zillow ($Z) CEO Rich Barton as it tries to make house buying (and selling) a frustration-free experience. (forbes.com)
- Subway sold too many franchises, then they figured out a way to close them down. (nytimes.com)
Gen Z
- On the state of Gen Z: a survey. (businessinsider.com)
- Overtime, which aims to become the predominant sports network for Generation Z. (newyorker.com)
Less
- Mark Manson, "Because in a world with infinite information and opportunity, you don’t grow by knowing or doing more, you grow by the ability to correctly focus on less." (markmanson.net)
- Are McMansions making people any happier? (theatlantic.com)
Book excerpts
- An excerpt from "The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast" by Andrew Blum. (time.com)
- A Q&A with ecologist Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson author of the new book, "Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects." (longreads.com)
- An excerpt from "Burn the Ice: The American Culinary Revolution And Its End" by Kevin Alexander. (gen.medium.com)
Longreads
- Four ways in which ETFs could represent a systemic financial risk. (esrb.europa.eu)
- The urgent care industry is changing American healthcare before our eyes. (media.thinknum.com)
- The argument against middle-age decline. (nextavenue.org)
- Oregon's coastline is uniquely at-risk to tsunamis. So what is the state making the situation worse by allowing building in the inundation zone? (newyorker.com)
- Colorado: five years after marijuana legalization. (nytimes.com)
- A profile of Buzzfeed News EIC Ben Smith. (esquire.com)
- The world is facing a sand shortage. (nature.com)
