Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at why there can never be another MTV.
Quote of the Day
"The Cloud is a factory."
(Nathan Ensmenger)
Book stuff
- A Q&A with Katy Milkman about her new book "How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be." (behavioralscientist.org)
- Lessons learned from "The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us" by Dr. Lucy Jones. (novelinvestor.com)
- A Q&A with Daniel Kahneman, co-author of "Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment." (behavioralscientist.org)
Online
- Just because you can put your life online doesn't mean you have to. (buzzfeednews.com)
- An aging Internet: when links break. (cjr.org)
Longreads
- Apple ($AAPL) will likely prevail against Epic Games but that doesn't mean they are in the right. (stratechery.com)
- E-commerce requires more warehouses. Not every community wants them. (nytimes.com)
- Syracuse, New York was a prime example of how Interstate highways were constructed through minority neighborhoods. (graphics.reuters.com)
- The pandemic was filled with academic stepping out of their fields to become epidemiologists. It did not turn out well. (statnews.com)
- Solutions to some of our biggest problems already exist. What is holding us back from implementing them? (city-journal.org)
- Cactus trafficking is off-the-charts, and in many cases illegal. (nytimes.com)
