Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at how Lake Tahoe has become increasingly unlivable.
Quote of the Day
"There’s always plenty of bad stuff going on in the world, but now there are literally millions of people with an incentive to find every bit of that bad stuff and shove it directly into your face, hoping you’ll reward them with a retweet or a follow."
(Noah Smith)
Books
- Insights from "Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time" by Sheila Liming. (slate.com)
- An excerpt from "The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration" by Jake Bittle. (theatlantic.com)
- A Q&A with Dacher Keltner author of "Awe: The New Science of Every Day Wonder and How it Can Transform Your Life. " (behavioralscientist.org)
- An excerpt from "On Writing and Failure: Or, on the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer" by Stephen Marche. (theatlantic.com)
Technology
- How Rust became the world's fastest growing programming languages. (technologyreview.com)
- Microsoft ($MSFT) Bing probably should have died many times by now. (theinformation.com)
Chemicals
- There's no simple solution to the fentanyl crisis. (on.ft.com)
- What problems arise when you start prescribing ketamine online. (nytimes.com)
Longreads
- A profile of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy one year into the war with Russia. (politico.com)
- How reputation management companies can help a client recycle their online reputation. (washingtonpost.com)
- Has the B-Corp movement lost the thread? (on.ft.com)
- A profile of Casey Bloys who has the 'most important job in media.' (variety.com)
- In today's NBA, players have their own outlets to get their views out there. (gq.com)
