Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the fastest growing part of the marijuana market.
Books
- A Q&A wth Walter Isaacson author of "The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race." (wired.com)
- An excerpt from "The Caesars Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street' by Sujeet Indap and Max Frumes. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- A Q&A with Robert Stickgold co-author of "When Brains Dream: Exploring the Mystery and Science of Sleep." (behavioralscientist.org)
Tech
- Four big trends Silicon Valley is facing including the prospect of increased regulation. (oreilly.com)
- How Israeli companies became big players in the cybersecurity industry. (restofworld.org)
- What responsibility do tech infrastructure companies have for their clients? (stratechery.com)
- Startup Pipe wants to give companies with recurring revenue a new, equity-free, funding source. (danco.substack.com)
- Epidemic Sound decided to build its own “completely new music industry.” (notboring.co)
Longreads
- The economics of being an owner-operator in the trucking industry are not great. (westword.com)
- Like many industries in the U.S., the market for road salt is an oligopoly. (mattstoller.substack.com)
- How U.S. Special Forces came to be stationed all around the world. (theatlantic.com)
- What to do if your parent has given themselves over to conspiracy theories. (buzzfeednews.com)
- People fake all sorts of stuff on the Internet, why not oppression as well? (theatlantic.com)
