Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look how American society has become decadent over time.
Quote of the Day
"Useful writing tells people something true and important that they didn't already know, and tells them as unequivocally as possible."
(Paul Graham)
Work
- Why do corporations speak the way they do? Let's touch base on this one... (vulture.com)
- For the first time, five distinct generations of employees — traditionalists, baby boomers, Generation Xers, millennials and Generation Zers — coexist in the workplace... (nytimes.com)
- Ugh, corporate buzzwords. (theatlantic.com)
Malfeasance
- We are living in the golden age of white collar crime. (huffpost.com)
- What it's like to track down marathon cheaters using race data and more. (wired.com)
Longreads
- Wikipedia is the last, best place that represents what the original Internet was supposed to be. (wired.com)
- Can psychedelic drugs, to treat mental health, be turned into a big business? (fortune.com)
- The story of the rise and steep fall of WeWork. (ft.com)
- Are income share agreements the solution to the student debt problem? (wired.com)
- 100 little ideas about the world works including "Sturgeon’s Law: “90% of everything is crap.” The obvious inverse of the Pareto Principle, but hard to accept in practice." (collaborativefund.com)
