Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including at the real history of the first IBM personal computer.
Quote of the Day
"True disconnection, like true wilderness, is an empty goal."
(Lauren Collee)
Books
- An excerpt from Michael Bhaskar’s book "Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking." (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
- Insights from Dr. Iain McGilchrist's monster 1,400 page book, "The Matter With Things." (thekcpgroup.com)
Companies
- How the Liberty Media complex of companies is a big tax-deferral machine. (thediff.co)
- Bill Foley, of Fidelity National Financial fame, amassed an outstanding track record and string of deals. (exploringcontext.substack.com)
- How DST Global quietly became a venture capital powerhouse. (readthegeneralist.com)
Technology
- A big profile of Matt Mullenweg of Automattic which is a different kind of tech company. (protocol.com)
- How TikTok can easily send users down dangerous rabbit holes. (wsj.com)
- What parts of web3 can we actually be excited about? (oreilly.com)
Health
- The more cancer screening we do, the more cancer we will find. (wsj.com)
- How private equity ownership is often incompatible with patient outcomes. (nbcnews.com)
Entertainment
- Throughout Britney Spears' conservatorship there were plenty of third parties making money off her career. (nytimes.com)
- How Alan Leftkowitz came to be the therapist to the stand up comedian community. (esquire.com)
- An oral history of the genre-bending movie 'Scream.' (theringer.com)
Longreads
- How AMC ($AMC) was rescued by the crowd and is now reliant on it. (wsj.com)
- How Wyoming became a premier global tax haven for the rich and often infamous. (washingtonpost.com)
- A first-hand account of what it is like to be a long-haul truck driver. (theatlantic.com)
- In praise of commitment. (perell.com)
