Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at how Wall Street became America’s biggest landlord.
Quote of the Day
"Ultimately, every IP owner will need to figure out how to participate in digital theme parks and platforms — to figure out how to execute a digital version of the physical “hug”.
(Matthew Ball)
Longreads
- Kevin Patterson, "Everything about this story is fast: the science, the virus, and the almost instantaneous popular fascination with and fear of unfolding events—spread by social media but also by traditional journalism and a public sensitized by Ebola and 2009 H1N1." (thewalrus.ca)
- Brexit has increased the odds of Scottish independence. (ft.com)
- The Zero Hedge story gets even weirder. (newrepublic.com)
- Why stamping out online ad fraud is so difficult. (buzzfeednews.com)
- How the climbing of Mt. Everest became a big business. (thehustle.co)
- Wealthy millennials are planning to give their money away sooner and in different ways than their parents. (washingtonpost.com)
- You're not as good at reading other people's emotions than you think you are. (nautil.us)
