Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the spread of facial recognition technology around the world.
Quote of the Day
"No matter how employers dress up fully remote work as a perk, workers will primarily bear the price—overtly in terms of home-office expenses, but especially covertly, in psychological costs—and should fight the trend."
(Arthur C. Brooks)
Chart of the Day
The UK has experienced net EU migration for years. Post-Brexit that is expected to go into reverse.
Books
- An excerpt from Jonathan Cohn's "The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage." (theatlantic.com)
- An except on how to interview a manager from Ted Seides' new book "Capital Allocators." (institutionalinvestor.com)
Remote therapy
- Demand for remote talk therapy surged in pandemic, but is it a good substitute for the real thing? (thecut.com)
- Why the city of Reno, Nevada signed a deal with therapy service Talkspace. (statnews.com)
Society
- How America's food banks operated through the pandemic. (nytimes.com)
- The RV/van life is not an escape from the challenges of America today. (newrepublic.com)
Farmland
- The battle for U.S. farmland is getting intense. (wsj.com)
- Many farmers are priced out of the farmland market. (modernfarmer.com)
Longreads
- The last time VCs bet big on clean energy the results were disastrous. That hasn't deterred a new wave of investment. (ft.com)
- How mRNA technology could bend the curve on a whole host of diseases. (theatlantic.com)
- The pandemic has only accelerated our interest in billionaires. (vox.com)
- How the U.S. got into the business of exporting wood pellets overseas to be burned for energy. (politico.com)
- A profile of THE Annie of Annie's Mac and Cheese. (sfgate.com)
- Why detecting a liar is harder than it seems. (knowablemagazine.org)
