Longform links: a built environment
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
1 day ago
2 MIN READ
Books
- An excerpt from “After Covid: The Health Impacts That Will Last Generations” by Jason Gale. (bloomberg.com)
- David Epstein talks with Olga Khazan, author of “Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change.” (davidepstein.substack.com)
- A profile of Tom Junod, author of “In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir.” (nytimes.com)
Business
- The story of Reddit ($RDDT). (quartr.com)
- A profile of Grab Holdings ($GRAB) the Southeast Asian super app. (fiscal.ai)
Global
- Finland understand the threat from Russia. (bloomberg.com)
- How the petrostates are vulnerable in a future world less dependent on oil. (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
- Is China fudging its poverty numbers? (ft.com)
Environment
- What happens when big chunks of the world are simply uninsurable? (aeon.co)
- Corpus Christi, Texas has a water problem. (texastribune.org)
History
- The history of nuclear power in the U.S. begins with Admiral Hyman Rickover. (worksinprogress.news)
- An excerpt from “Safe Passage: The Untold Story of Diplomatic Intrigue, Betrayal, and the Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea During World War II” by Evelyn Iritani. (smithsonianmag.com)
Entertainment
- How Pixar lost its way. (thebaffler.com)
- How The Sphere works. (readtrung.com)
- How (why?) James Patterson feeds his publishing machine. (bloomberg.com)
Sports
- An oral history of the Sloan Sports Analytics conference. (theringer.com)
- How the PGA Tour turned A $1 swamp, i.e. Sawgrass, and a $150 million a year business. (huddleup.substack.com)
Longreads
- How the destruction of the middle class affects everyone. (yourbrainonmoney.substack.com)
- Why American universities have failed to see a backlash coming. (newyorker.com)
- Why reducing the cost of CAR-T therapy would be such a big deal. (newyorker.com)
- Humans have been debating the mind-body connection forever. (theatlantic.com)
- Another example of Elon Musk’s hype machine gone wrong. (washingtonian.com)
- How to spot a huckster. (investing101.substack.com)
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