Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the real reason New Coke was a total failure.
Book excerpts
- An excerpt from Mihir Desai's new book "How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart About the Numbers." (hbswk.hbs.edu)
- An excerpt from "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language" by Gretchen McCulloch. (wired.com)
Work
- A list of 101 things that are changing how we work. (bbc.com)
- Mic is a poster child for the rise (and fall) of new media. (huffpost.com)
Profiles
- American Airlines sold a lifetime pass to select fliers. Then they took it away. How it affect one man and his family. (narratively.com)
- A profile of Anthony Scaramucci, two years removed from his short White House tenure. (washingtonpost.com)
Longreads
- The story of how China's Cosco came to own Greece's largest port. (fortune.com)
- Saudi Arabia is planning to build a Jetsons-like city in the desert. (wsj.com)
- Read this just in case you didn't think ticket sellers were already the worst. (billboard.com)
- Chris Stringer, "The ancestry of Homo sapiens is less clear-cut now, while its takeover of the planet, complicated by previously unknown human species, looks less inexorable." (ft.com)
- 12 insights into the psychology of prediction. (collaborativefund.com)
- Are we doing ourselves a disservice by staying out of the sun? (elemental.medium.com)
