Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. Wherever possible, free links behind the paywall are used. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at why elite colleges are bringing back the SAT.
Quote of the Day
"In the United States, business groups and politicians often call offloading more responsibilities onto citizens ‘empowering’ them."
(Suzanne Schneider)
Books
- An excerpt from Abigail Shrier’s new book, “Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up.” (wsj.com)
- An excerpt from "The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, From Our Bodies to Our Beliefs" by Sabrina Sholts. (smithsonianmag.com)
- An excerpt from "Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection" by Charles Duhigg. (behavioralscientist.org)
American Flannel
- An excerpt from "American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home" by Steven Kurutz. (theatlantic.com)
- A Q&A with Steven Kurutz author of "American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home." (gq.com)
Investing
- Fermat Capital Management owns the world's largest portfolio catastrophe bonds. (bloomberg.com)
- Investment factors are a big business. So the models (and data) used matter. (bloomberg.com)
Longreads
- A new drug, Trikafta, is giving cystic fibrosis patients a new lease on life. (theatlantic.com)
- Human-created content is getting further pushed aside by AI-generated content. (wheresyoured.at)
- Southern Appalachia is the hot new retirement destination. (wsj.com)
- Mass timber construction is great, but is not a panacea. (construction-physics.com)
- Toronto is running out of burial space. (thelocal.to)
- MrBeast perfected the YouTube video. Now he's changing things up. (polygon.com)
- Don't kid yourself, phones are the problem. (theatlantic.com)