Longform links: beliefs over evidence
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
9 months ago
2 MIN READ
Books
- A rave review of “How Tyrants Fall” by Marcel Dirsus. (forkingpaths.co)
- Insights from “Maxims for Thinking Analytically” by Dan Levy. (novelinvestor.com)
- Jim Pethokoukis talks with Ruchir Sharma, author of “What Went Wrong with Capitalism.” (fasterplease.substack.com)
Business
- PE firm Patricof &. Co. is doubling down on its relationships with pro athletes. (nytimes.com)
- How Junior Bridgeman built a business empire, post-NBA career. (espn.com)
Venture capital
- Elizabeth Lopatto, “So this VC cabal is trading against the basic principles of America — not merely against personal freedom, but democracy itself — in the hopes of profit.” (theverge.com)
- What do you do when your venture investor takes political positions antithetical to your own? (techcrunch.com)
Energy
- Canola is the hot new biofuel crop. (bloomberg.com)
- Should we use geothermal energy to reduce the risk of catastrophic eruption at Yellowstone? (construction-physics.com)
Fish
- Farmed salmon have a sea lice problem. (wsj.com)
- Why Great Lakes whitefish are struggling: a lack of ice cover. (mlive.com)
History
- How the John Hancock Center in Chicago ushered in a new era for skyscrapers. (mentalfloss.com)
- Why some diseases spread from Europe to the Americas and others didn’t. (science.org)
- The story of the George Foreman grill and its continued success. (thehustle.co)
Longreads
- Why everything now requires a rating: how Yelp changed the world. (eater.com)
- Why social platforms inevitably trend toward the lowest common denominator. (bittersoutherner.com)
- How Ukraine made the Black Sea a no-go zone for Russian warships. (theconversation.com)
- The story of how prosecutors obtained convictions against the parents of a school shooter. (wapo.st)
- Mexico is so much bigger than you realize. (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
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