Longform links: withstanding pain
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Abnormal Returns
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Books
- A Q&A with Alex Hutchinson who has a new book: “The Explorer’s Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map.” (twopct.com)
- An excerpt from “This Way Up: Old Friends, New Love, and a Map for the Road Ahead” by Cathrin Bradbury. (thewalrus.ca)
Wealth
- Katie Gatti Tassin, “Extreme wealth can buy a room at the Four Seasons, but it can’t buy a less addictive iPhone.” (moneywithkatie.com)
- Americans are wealthier than ever, but are seemingly miserable. (nytimes.com)
- American policy is now singularly focused on making life easier for the rich and powerful. (slate.com)
- It’s becoming more expensive to hire a nanny these days. (newyorker.com)
Business
- Nintendo is betting big on the Switch 2. (bloomberg.com)
- How Brazil successfully built airplane manufacturer Embraer. (noahpinion.blog)
- Brightline works. Why can’t we have it in more places? (nytimes.com)
Work
- Gen X is feeling the pain at work these days. (nytimes.com)
- Are people increasingly bad at their jobs, or are the jobs themselves bad? (annehelen.substack.com)
Longreads
- An oral history of the demise of Bear Stearns. (washingtonpost.com)
- Don’t ignore the environment costs of AI use. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- Lessons from history on how to protect democracy. (foreignaffairs.com)
- Are we any readier for the next pandemic? (hub.jhu.edu)
- How animals like coyotes adapt to urban environments. (biographic.com)
- Why did the Bayesian sink? (newlinesmag.com)
- Remember that viral story about an Ole Miss student? It wasn’t true. (nytimes.com)
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