Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at a big shift in how Hollywood operates.
Quote of the Day
"I have no idea how to find the perfect balance between internal and external benchmarks. But I know there’s a strong social pull toward external measures – chasing a path someone else set, whether you enjoy it or not."
(Morgan Housel)
Books
- An excerpt from "Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life" by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. (wired.com)
- A Q&A with Steve Magness author of "Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness." (gq.com)
Longreads
- Suburban office parks are not going to avoid the office space reshuffling. (nytimes.com)
- Is art really a viable investment opportunity? (manual.withcompound.com)
- Millions of pounds of California almonds are stuck in the U.S. (latimes.com)
- Yandex was the Google of Russia. What now? (nytimes.com)
- How the U.S. squandered the post-Cold War (1989-2001) years. (newrepublic.com)
- Evidence is growing that soccer players are at-risk of CTE. (washingtonpost.com)
- A profile of Mario and Michael Andretti and their plan to land a team in Formula One. (gq.com)