Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at how Weird Al has remained popular all these years.
Quote of the Day
"Standing on the shoulders of giants is a necessary part of creativity, innovation, and development."
(Shane Parrish)
Books
- An excerpt from Eva Holland's new book "Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear." (outsideonline.com)
- A Q&A with Nelson D. Schwartz author of "The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business." (npr.org)
- An excerpt from Scott Barry Kaufman's new book "Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization." (heleo.com)
Business
- Corporate innovation is flourishing in the battle against coronavirus. (wsj.com)
- What did Carnival Cruises ($CCL) know about coronavirus and when did they know it? (bloomberg.com)
- A profile of Cathie Woods of ARK Investments and how a big bet on Tesla ($TSLA) has helped attract additional assets. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- A profile of NYC luxury real estate developer Michael Stern, pre-coronavirus. (ft.com)
Covid-19
- Ed Yong, "The pandemic is not a hurricane or a wildfire. It is not comparable to Pearl Harbor or 9/11. Such disasters are confined in time and space. The SARS-CoV-2 virus will linger through the year and across the world." (theatlantic.com)
- Like the GFC, the coronavirus brought the global financial system to its kneeds. (theguardian.com)
- The Federal government has planned for a pandemic for two decades but was still unprepared when one actually hit. (politico.com)
- Tim Harford, "We should acknowledge that even foreseeable problems can be inherently hard to prepare for. A pandemic, for example, is predictable only in broad outline. The specifics are unknowable." (ft.com)
- The many ways in which this pandemic is different than 1918. (rationalwalk.com)
- How coronavirus rumors have spread through the media. (vanityfair.com)
