Longform links: building taste
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Abnormal Returns
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Books
- Five insights from “How to Win a Trade War: An Optimistic Guide to an Anxious Global Economy” by Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown. (nextbigideaclub.com)
- A Q&A with Cory Doctorow about his book, “The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI.” (arstechnica.com)
- Nate Silver talks with Seth Masket, author of the new book, “The Elephants in the Room: How Trump Voters Seized the Party from Republican Leaders.” (natesilver.net)
- An excerpt from “The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People’s Constitution” by Jesse Wegman. (theatlantic.com)
Profiles
- A profile of Canadian PM Mark Carney. (politico.com)
- The Tulsi Gabbard story keeps getting weirder. (washingtonpost.com)
- What is Bob Iger’s legacy at Disney ($DIS)? (ft.com)
- A profile of Diana Russini. (nytimes.com)
- Why Bill Watterson, author of ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ resisted commercialization. (therepublicofletters.substack.com)
Business
- How Eli Lilly ($LLY) came to dominate the market for weight loss drugs. (bloomberg.com)
- What it’s like to roll out a new version of an established consumer product like Tide. (wsj.com)
- How Citadel continues to benefit from the demise of Enron. (giftarticle.ft.com)
AI
- Why China is so focused on robots. (giftarticle.ft.com)
- Data center operators go to great lengths to hide what they are doing from locals. (newrepublic.com)
- It’s easier to automate a job than make it irrelevant. (davidoks.blog)
Longreads
- There is not a single ‘affordability crisis.’ (thedispatch.com)
- Many Americans are in denial about their care later in life. (theatlantic.com)
- Humans aren’t going to live on Mars. (noemamag.com)
- What we lose when we optimize our lives to avoid death. (derekthompson.org)
- How the trust helped create the modern world. (springbett.substack.com)
- You can’t simply outsource your taste to others. (yourbrainonmoney.substack.com)
- Why the crossword puzzle endures. (slate.com)
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