Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the modern invention of the dinosaur.
Quote of the Day
”Perhaps the simplest and best definition of wisdom I’ve heard is “knowing what information is important.”
(Tom Morgan)
Books
- “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity” by David Wengrow and David Graeber upends our understanding of pre-history. (newyorker.com)
- An excerpt from Paul Bloom's "The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning." (theatlantic.com)
- A Q&A with Dan Ozzi author of "SELLOUT: The Major Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo and Hardcore 1994 – 2007." (vice.com)
- A Q&A with Laurie Woolever author of "Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography." (eater.com)
Investing
- How Bill Miller came to the view that conventional value investing was wrong. (neckar.substack.com)
- How to use Scott’s Decade system to become a better golfer, and investor. (elmwealth.com)
Society
- Information is still coming out about the January 6th insurrection and it's worse than originally thought. (washingtonpost.com)
- Another example of how hospital bills in the U.S., even for the insured, are a total crap shoot. (wsj.com)
Longreads
- Lucy Shiller, "Like much of talk radio, 'The [Dave] Ramsey Show' sits in a murky zone between journalism and entertainment. It is not quite a news program, religious service, reality show, infomercial, or financial advice; it is somehow all five." (cjr.org)
- Monetary policy helped get us through the pandemic, but unwinding it is going to be a challenge. (thereformedbroker.com)
- Even after a natural disaster is clean up, the trauma remains. (washingtonpost.com)
- Career hot streaks don't happen by accident. (msn.com)
- How Lebanon came to be a failed state. (nytimes.com)
- A profile of Will Ferrell. (hollywoodreporter.com)
- Metaverse, 101. (etftrends.com)
