Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at what it is like to retire ‘Margaritaville-style.’
Quote of the Day
"Simplicity and consensus give the illusion of safety."
(Packy McCormick)
Books
- An excerpt from "Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong" by Eric Barker. (bakadesuyo.com)
- An excerpt from “The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation” by Cathy O'Neal. (bloomberg.com)
- An excerpt from “Generation Sleepless: Why Tweens and Teens Aren’t Sleeping Enough and How We Can Help Them” by Heather Turgeon and Julie Wright. (wsj.com)
Profiles
- A profile of Adam Tooze and why 'his ongoing study of past global disasters has arrived at a present rife with global disasters to explain.' (nymag.com)
- How Ben McKenzie became an ardent opponent of cryptocurrencies. (nytimes.com)
- Do you need a big profile of Nicolas Cage? Here you go... (gq.com)
- The story of how Chris Wright is living with MS AND playing professional basketball. (espn.com)
Longreads
- Ben Thompson talks with Nvidia ($NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang about 'the deliberateness of his vision.' (stratechery.com)
- Why companies need to embrace multiple generations in the workforce. (hbr.org)
- What a 'do no harm' approach to PE investing entails. (permanentequity.com)
- The video game franchise Halo is engaged in its most ambitious expansion yet. (washingtonpost.com)
- What's really driving lower fertility rates? (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
- Finland takes its defense against Russia seriously. (ft.com)
