Thursdays are now all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at why overcoming ‘myside bias’ is so difficult.
Corporate malfeasance
- Ernst & Young has audited a number of companies that recently were uncovered as frauds. (wsj.com)
- How Wisconsin's deal with Foxconn went off the rails. (theverge.com)
- How armored truck company GardaWorld kept losing customers' cash. (projects.tampabay.com)
- An excerpt from "Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork" by Reeves Wiedeman. (curbed.com)
Business
- How Yeti ($YETI) has survived, and thrived, in pandemic. (marker.medium.com)
- Palantir's ($PLTR) secrecy helps explain why so many are skeptical of its methods and aims. (nytimes.com)
- A pandemic guide to small business uncertainty. (permanentequity.com)
Covid
- Nikolai Petrovsky, "Adjuvants have been the weak link in vaccines for the last hundred years." (theatlantic.com)
- How Covid brought the cruise ship Riviera came to dock in Eastport, Maine. (downeast.com)
Longreads
- Public and private markets are converging because investors of all types are looking for the same thing in a business. (medium.com)
- There is growing evidence that Russian security services have been using devices to remotely attack American diplomats and spies. (gq.com)
- The nature of music is changing as our lives become more virtual. (matthewball.vc)
- You are likely wasting too much time on decision that don't matter all that much. (luckymaverick.substack.com)
- The human sense of smell is mind bogglingly complex. (nautil.us)
- St. Matthew Island, the most remote part of Alaska, is no place for humans. (hakaimagazine.com)
