Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. Wherever possible, free links for premium sites are used. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the growing importance of drone warfare.
Quote of the Day
"Science is not about getting things right. It’s about getting things wrong, and wrong, and wrong again, and from this cavalcade of wrongnesses overturned, a useful thing sometimes emerges."
(Derek Thompson)
Books
- A Q&A with Brad Feld, author of "Give First: The Power of Mentorship." (bigthink.com)
- An excerpt from "The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb" by Garrett M. Graff. (politico.com)
- A Q&A with Sarah Gold McBride, author of "Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America." (annehelen.substack.com)
- An excerpt from "Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource" by Sam Bloch. (theatlantic.com)
- A Q&A with Joseph Lee, author of "Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity." (npr.org)
Russia
- No one disputes Russia has spirited Ukrainian children over the border. (time.com)
- The drone war in Ukraine is brutal and unrelenting. (wsj.com)
Health care
- Should everyone be on GLP-1 agonists? (derekthompson.org)
- The company that helps facilitate questionable purchases through HSAs and FSAs. (nytimes.com)
Demographics
- All the trends that are working against marriage. (thenewatlantis.com)
- Rural areas are feeling the brunt of demographic decline. (on.ft.com)
Longreads
- Succession planning is process, not and end point. (hbr.org)
- How Reddit ($RDDT) survived and is now thriving. (nymag.com)
- The effort to undermine ESG has been organized and well-funded. (theatlantic.com)
- Do banks need to do more to combat 'pig butchering' scams? (wsj.com)
- Canton, NC was defined by its now shuttered paper mill. What comes next? (nytimes.com)
- Yaupon is the only native source of caffeine in America. (wapo.st)
- On the unknowns of facing a chronic illness. (moretothat.com)
