Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at what it is like to go through Army Ranger school.
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Quote of the Day
“You’re not going to stop outbreaks from happening. But you can stop outbreaks from becoming epidemics or pandemics.”
(Beth Cameron)
Books
- A Q&A with Steven Sinofsky author of "Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution." (fastcompany.com)
- An excerpt from Bill Buford's new book "Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking." (eater.com)
- A Q&A with psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman author of "Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization." (behavioralscientist.org)
Sports
- Peyton Manning may be long retired from the NFL but he still holds sway around the league. (bleacherreport.com)
- What NFL offensive linemen have to do to keep the weight on, not off. (theringer.com)
- Donald Trump says he was good enough to play professional baseball. What does the record say? (slate.com)
Pandemic psychology
- The many ways in which your brain was not designed to deal with an invisible threat like the coronavirus. (thewalrus.ca)
- Hugh Gusterson, "Humans are not so good at being aware of more abstract threats, even though they are often far more serious." (ft.com)
Longreads
- The federal government has abdicated its role in fighting the pandemic. (nymag.com)
- Five lessons from history including: "People suffering from sudden, unexpected hardship are likely to adopt views they previously thought unthinkable." (collaborativefund.com)
- A profile of former Google ($GOOGL) CEO Eric Schmidt who has reinvented himself into a liason between the military and Silicon Valley. (nytimes.com)
- Ben Bebenroth had built a small food empire in Cleveland, and then the coronavirus hit. (wsj.com)
- A firsthand account of a cyclist surviving a hit and run. (outsideonline.com)
