Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at how maps can distort reality.
Quote of the Day
"By pushing what AI can do and learning how it thinks, we’ll learn more about how our own minds work, and what makes them unique."
(Packy McCormick)
Books
- An excerpt from “Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America” by Brendan Ballou. (theatlantic.com)
- A excerpt from "Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral." by Ben Smith. (semafor.com)
- An excerpt from "For The Culture: The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do, and Who We Want To Be" by Marcus Collins. (fastcompany.com)
- An excerpt from "The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology" by Prof. Nita A. Farahany. (engadget.com)
Longreads
- Venture capital and the business of news don't mix well. (nymag.com)
- Why prices are still so high: the story of how a tire gets onto your car. (propublica.org)
- How ChatGPT helped one company become more productive. (npr.org)
- Lessons learned from the long, successful history of Cintas Corp. (mastersinvest.com)
- A timeline of the Dominion-Fox lawsuit and what comes next. (axios.com)
- How India's rise is going to transform the world. (noahpinion.blog)
