Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at what Cameo understands about modern fandom.
Quote of the Day
"A good song or album - or novel or painting - seems authoritative and inevitable, as if it just had to be that way, but it rarely feels like that to the people making it."
(Ian Leslie)
Books
- An excerpt from Daniel Pink’s latest book, “The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward” by Daniel Pink. (wsj.com)
- An excerpt from Ro Khanna's "Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us." (theatlantic.com)
- An excerpt from "From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy" by Scott Meslow. (gq.com)
- An excerpt from "The Animal Review: The Genius, Mediocrity, and Breathtaking Stupidity That Is Nature" by Jacob Lentz and Steve Nash. (npr.org)
Finance
- The history of finance is one of centralization. Why this go-round won't be different. (thereformedbroker.com)
- A profile of Nathan Anderson, the proprietor of Hindenburg Research. (nymag.com)
- A value investor's guide to web3. (sparklinecapital.com)
- Leon Cooperman muses on work, wealth and mortality. (wapo.st)
Media
- Lydia Keating, "Social media has exposed the fragility of truth...There is a stark dissonance between what social media platforms provide and what the users of these platforms believe they receive." (slate.com)
- TED has passed its peak. What did it add up to? (thedriftmag.com)
- How Steven Rinella's MeatEater brand became a big business. (nytimes.com)
- Editing a crossword puzzle these days is surprisingly political. (kotaku.com)
- Why did the Beatles become a worldwide sensation? (papers.ssrn.com)
Longreads
- McCormic's ($MCK) has big ambitions for hot sauce, like Frank's. (bloomberg.com)
- How NSO's spy software ended up in the hands of so many disreputable players. (nytimes.com)
- Like it or not, humans are affecting all natural processes on earth. (bbc.com)
- How the town of West Windsor saved the Mount Ascutney ski area. (nytimes.com)
- Fast fashion is an environmental disaster. (expmag.com)
