Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at whether we are doing ourselves a disservice by staying out of the sun.
Media
- Movie franchise fatigue isn't real. (redef.com)
- The streaming wars are going to get ugly. (bloomberg.com)
Food
- Fake meat is the beginning of the end for the beef industry. (outsideonline.com)
- There’s a new generation of rural entrepreneur returning to the Great Plains. (csmonitor.com)
Clothing
- The real story of Supreme, the big street brand. (gq.com)
- How Carter's became the gold standard in child clothing retail. (washingtonpost.com)
- Startups are having to confront the high cost of returns. (voguebusiness.com)
Oversight
- With broad CCTV coverage London is the epicenter of facial recognition use in a democracy. (ft.com)
- In many cases the local newspaper is the only effective watchdog. (nytimes.com)
- How allegations of child molestation caught up to a famous track coach. (espn.com)
Economy
- Americans are increasingly going into debt to live a middle class lifestyle. (wsj.com)
- The latest college scam is wealth parents giving up custody of their kids so they can quality for aid. (propublica.org)
Longreads
- Investors are making a big mistake trying to copy Yale University's investing model, because they don't have David Swensen. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- Some universal laws worth pondering including: "Brandolini’s law: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullsh*t is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.” (collaborativefund.com)
- To survive, the modern grocery store is going to have to change a lot. (longreads.com)
- Why we need a science of human progress. (theatlantic.com)
- How a bedridden college dropout essentially studied how to cure his own very rare disease. (cnn.com)
- Walking is a superpower. (theguardian.com)
