Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the growing problem of fake content.
Quote of the Day
"Some of the most immediate causes of America’s high death rate are guns, drugs, and cars."
(Derek Thompson)
Books
- An excerpt from "Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires" by Douglas Rushkoff. (theguardian.com)
- An excerpt from "Birds and Us: A 12,000-Year History From Cave Art to Conservation" by Tim Birkhead. (smithsonianmag.com)
Environment
- The battle over access to Colorado's rivers is getting heated. (nytimes.com)
- Hunting invasive species is increasingly a sport. (newyorker.com)
- The rescue of the California condor is a success story. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
Sports gambling
- Sports gambling firms burning through their customers. (compactmag.com)
- Sports gambling addiction is often hidden from others. (vice.com)
Longreads
- A review of the career and investment philosophy of Julian Robertson. (neckar.substack.com)
- Why complicated solutions seem smarter than simple ones. (philo.substack.com)
- How the war in Ukraine is forcing Europe to embrace fossil fuels. (ft.com)
- The Netherlands is reaching the end stages of its pursuit of justice for the downing of MH17. (theatlantic.com)
- What's the deal with 'longtermism'? (vox.com)
- What has the TSA accomplished? (theverge.com)
