Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the end of a venerable American newspaper.
Quote of the Day
"Of all the threats we know, the COVID-19 pandemic is most like a very rapid version of climate change—global in its scope, erratic in its unfolding, and unequal in its distribution."
(Ed Yong)
Coronavirus
- A behind the scenes look at the global capital markets on March 16th when things got pretty dicey. (wsj.com)
- How Paterson, New Jersey is successfully doing contact tracing. (nytimes.com)
- What small Bolinas, California learned by testing nearly everyone for the coronavirus. (newyorker.com)
- The pandemic has highlighted issues with our food supply system. (nybooks.com)
- How King Arthur Flour became an unlikely beneficiary in pandemic. (marker.medium.com)
- These people took advantage of $1 Italian homes. Then the coronavirus struck. (cnn.com)
Business
- How SpaceX has gotten the best of Boeing ($BA) in space. (washingtonpost.com)
- How Epic Games, the makers of Fortnite, is reshaping the world of gaming. (matthewball.vc)
- How fracking pioneer Harold Hamm, founder of Continental Resources Inc., is trying to survive the plunge in oil prices. (wsj.com)
- Tech companies are going to have to choose between China and the US. (stratechery.com)
Books
- An excerpt from Matt Ridley's “How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom.“ (wsj.com)
- An excerpt from James Nestor's “Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art” (wsj.com)
Longreads
- Once you've experienced tail end-risk, it will be all you think about. (collaborativefund.com)
- Information overload is endemic. What happens if you consciously cut yourself off from it? (1843magazine.com)
- A big profile of Brené Brown, 'America's therapist.' (texasmonthly.com)
- Inside Florida's attempt to rid the Everglades of invasive pythons. (outsideonline.com)
- The world-famous KROQ has lost its way. (variety.com)
- To understand Michael Jordan you need to go back to North Carolina. (espn.com)
