Longform links: something we forgot
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
10 months ago
2 MIN READ
Books
- An excerpt from “Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War” by Raj Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff. (theatlantic.com)
- A Q&A with Soraya Chemaly, author of “The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma.” (annehelen.substack.com)
- Insights from “Holding it Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net,” by Jessica Calarco (crr.bc.edu)
Business
- Shareholder supremacy explains a lot of the dysfunction and grifting around us. (wheresyoured.at)
- Americans are turning their backs on certain consumer goods, which were supposed to be ‘staples.’ (bloomberg.com)
- Why does title insurance still exist? (bitsaboutmoney.com)
American history
- It’s hard to overstate the impact of AT&T on America in the 20th century. (construction-physics.com)
- How did the RAND Institute turn into just another think tank? (asteriskmag.com)
Longreads
- America is thriving in spite of government ineptitude. (notboring.co)
- Average traffic speeds in Manhattan are the worse they have ever been. (wsj.com)
- How the NDA became the defining legal document of the day. (thecut.com)
- The combination of AI, robots and weapons is inevitable. (nytimes.com)
- How barred owls displaced northern spotted owls. (hakaimagazine.com)
- What life is like for a lower tier professional tennis player. (theguardian.com)
- How to strengthen your intuition. (theleading-edge.org)
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