Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at why the world will see more mass migration in the future.
Quote of the Day
"Creativity is now understood first and foremost as a business resource, a component of an employee’s skill set, an ability to sell something, anything. A creator, then, is someone whom platforms can put to use."
(Rob Horning)
Books
- An excerpt from "Happy at Any Cost: The Revolutionary Vision and Fatal Quest" of Tony Hsieh, by Kirsten Grind and Katherine Sayre. (wired.com)
- An excerpt from "Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet." by Thomas E. Lovejoy and John W. Reid. (theatlantic.com)
Investing
- Mario Gabriele, "Multicoin Capital may be the best-performing venture fund of all-time." (readthegeneralist.com)
- Key lessons from the early part of Stanley Druckenmiller's investment career. (neckar.substack.com)
Environment
- The story of a town that relocated due to devastating flooding. (bbc.com)
- How Brazil is putting in place the seeds of the destruction of the Amazon. (washingtonpost.com)
Society
- Restaurants are more than just a place to eat food. (marker.medium.com)
- What it's like to retire 'Margaritaville-style.' (newyorker.com)
- Why regional accents are disappearing. (insidehook.com)
Longreads
- Ten lessons from great businesses including 'Be a painfully persistent recruiter.' (readthegeneralist.com)
- How people think including 'Prediction is about probability and putting the odds of success in your favor. But observers mostly judge you in binary terms, right or wrong.' (collaborativefund.com)
- If workers never return to the office like they did pre-pandemic, midtown Manhattan needs a big makeover. (wsj.com)
- The bottlenecks to renewable energy are political not technical, the case of Copake, NY. (bloomberg.com)
- A latecomer's guide to crypto. (nytimes.com)
