Thursdays are now all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at profile of Elon Musk and his big year.
Book stuff
- A Q&A with Annie Duke author of "How to Decide." (behavioralscientist.org)
- A Q&A with Jason Farman author of "Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World." (gq.com)
- An excerpt from "Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused" by Melissa Maertz. (theringer.com)
Work
- On the omnipresence of work. (moretothat.com)
- In the workplace, employees are now being tracked more closely and not just for Covid reasons. (onezero.medium.com)
- In the US, the social safety net is largely the work of women. (annehelen.substack.com)
- What it's like to spend a Summer working on a Maine lobster boat. (outsideonline.com)
Politics
- In the modern age the Electoral College is an 'absurd system.' (ritholtz.com)
- How should we reckon with a presidency so rife with corruption and crime? (nytimes.com)
Business
- Why OpenAI is being super careful about how it rolls out access to GPT-3. (ft.com)
- The stakes are different launching satellites vs. people into space. (theatlantic.com)
- A profile of Tom Alberg who was one of the first investors in Amazon ($AMZN). (geekwire.com)
Mental health
- One company, in particular, is well-positioned to take advantage of the psilocybin revolution. (notboring.substack.com)
- A pandemic primer on depression and anxiety from someone who lives with it every day. (5280.com)
Longreads
- Five big lessons from history including "Important things rarely have one cause." (collaborativefund.com)
- Nobody really knows how many people will return to mass transit, post-pandemic. (ft.com)
- How rising sea levels can affect groundwater levels as well. (hakaimagazine.com)
- The story behind the world's most famous chalk. (nytimes.com)
