Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at Kareem’s remembrance of Bill Russell.
Quote of the Day
"Lately, there seems to be something purposeful about how Musk tweets the news, muscling his way into trending topics like a one-man bot farm."
(Lane Brown)
Books
- An excerpt from "How to Stay Smart in a Smart World" by Gerd Gigerenzer. (engadget.com)
- A Q&A with Paris Marx author of "Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation." (gizmodo.com)
Policy
- U.S. taxpayer money help develop a new battery technology. Now only China uses it. (npr.org)
- Family separation wasn't a side effect, it was the goal, of U.S. government policy. (theatlantic.com)
- A profile of Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock. (politico.com)
Entertainment
- Judge Reinhold’s oral history of ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High.’ (lamag.com)
- A profile of Steve Martin and his late career revival. (hollywoodreporter.com)
Longreads
- Thomas Pueyo, "So when you’re buying luxury, you’re buying two things at once: something exclusive (because of its scarcity) and plausible deniability (to avoid flaunting)." (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
- How so-called corporate raiders transformed into the huge private equity industry. (on.ft.com)
- Seven tricks to better evaluate the quality of information including 'the plural of anecdote is not data.' (fs.blog)
- How Camden Yards changed baseball and sports, 30 years on. (theringer.com)
- There is no easy to answer when it comes to donating clothes. (theatlantic.com)
- The fascinating history of Listerine royalty payments. (thehustle.co)
