Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at how Baby Boomers ‘broke’ America.
Book excerpts
- An excerpt from Gregory Zuckerman's "The Man Who Solved the Market." (institutionalinvestor.com)
- An excerpt from Jonathan Rowson's "The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life." (nytimes.com)
Longreads
- Are Robert Shiller's ideas about the power of narratives on the economy all that novel? (marker.medium.com)
- There is nothing preventing CEOs from timing their share sales around buyback announcements. (washingtonpost.com)
- The Internet is increasingly breaking down into national walled gardens. (wsj.com)
- What Internet searches teach us about how people cope. (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
- Breathalyzer tests can be shockingly inaccurate, calling into question thousands of drunk driving convictions. (nytimes.com)
- Why libraries are so important to society and why we collectively underestimate their impact. (lithub.com)
- On the challenge of making an anti-hero an attractive character. (longreads.com)
- Tom Junod revisits the person (and idea) that is Fred Rogers, 16 years after his passing, and on the eve of the release of "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood." (theatlantic.com)