Longform links: an exit strategy
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
14 hours ago
2 MIN READ
Books
- An excerpt from “When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…” by Steven Pinker. (behavioralscientist.org)
- A look at Cory Doctorow’s new book “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It.”
(newyorker.com) - An excerpt from “The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives — Including Your Own” by Tom Frieden. (bigthink.com)
- A Q&A with Dr. Eric Topol, author of “Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity,” (freethink.com)
- An excerpt from “Taylor’s Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift” by Stephanie Burt. (wsj.com)
Technology
- A profile of Tim Berners-Lee and what he think of his invention these days. (newyorker.com)
- How blogger Ed Zitron became one of big tech’s loudest critics. (ft.com)
- Eight things David Foster Wallace warned us about including ‘Screen technology will cause a crisis of loneliness, especially among young people.’ (honest-broker.com)
- The case for recording more of your life. (aeon.co)
Longreads
- Brian Klass, “Our social brains have a remarkable aversion to those who sneer at us.” (forkingpaths.co)
- A profile of Thomas Peterffy, founder of Interactive Brokers ($IBKR). (joincolossus.com)
- The publishing industry leans ever more on blockbusters. (thewalrus.ca)
- Unincorporated areas struggle when disaster hits and in the aftermath. (grist.org)
- Deportations are a human issue, not just economic. (thebaffler.com)
- How common is accidental invention? Not very. (construction-physics.com)
- Why are warm countries seemingly poorer? (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
- Why systems are resistant to change. (worksinprogress.co)
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