Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the story behind billion-dollar IRAs.
Addiction
- Caitlin Flanagan, "I know I’m an addict because Twitter hacked itself so deep into my circuitry that it interrupted the very formation of my thoughts." (theatlantic.com)
- Michael Pollen on our collective caffeine addiction. (theguardian.com)
Finance
- How volatility trading has fundamentally changed the nature of markets. (etftrends.com)
- Meb Faber's journey as an angel investor. (mebfaber.com)
Food
- California's wine country is facing an existential threat: fire. (bloomberg.com)
- Is indoor farming the future of food? (nytimes.com)
- How expiration dates exacerbate the country's food waste problem. (vox.com)
Longreads
- America has been through a lot the past two decades. (noahpinion.substack.com)
- Health care workers are fighting a war against Covid that the patients don't believe is real. (washingtonpost.com)
- Want to reduce heat deaths? Plant more trees in cities. (nytimes.com)
- Britney Spears' conservatorship has run 13 years. How much longer can it go on? (newyorker.com)
- What are we to make of the military's report on UAPs? (slate.com)
