Longform links: corporate convergence
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
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Books
- Ben Smith talks with Ken Rogoff author of “Our Dollar, Your Problem.” (semafor.com)
- Annie Duke talks with Elizabeth Weingarten author of “How to Fall in Love with Questions: A New Way to Thrive in Times of Uncertainty.” (annieduke.substack.com)
- An excerpt from “The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World” by Christine Rosen. (afterbabel.com)
- A Q&A with Greg Grandin, the Pulitzer-winning historian and author of “America, América.” (semafor.com)
- A Q&A with Jonathan D. Cohen, author of “Losing Big: America’s Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling.” (wpr.org)
- Insights from “There’s Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift” by Kevin Evers. (nextbigideaclub.com)
AI
- How ChatGPT has completely upended higher education. (nymag.com)
- How LLMs broke open the field of natural language processing (NLP). (quantamagazine.org)
Global
- What sauna culture teaches us about happiness and Finland. (nytimes.com)
- Iceland is dealing with increased volcanic activity. (bloomberg.com)
Infrastructure
- We take our water treatment infrastructure for granted. (thenewatlantis.com)
- Another example of government letting down its guard: the case of the screwworm. (youtube.com)
- Chicago’s transit system is in crisis. (chicagomag.com)
Longreads
- An excerpt from Robin Wiggleworth’s “Trillions” on Warren Buffett’s relationship with active management and indexing. (on.ft.com)
- How Bill Gates is planning to spend down the rest of the $200 billion in the Gates Foundation. (nytimes.com)
- The number of satellite re-entries is only going to increase. (bloomberg.com)
- Utah’s Great Salt Lake is dying. (nytimes.com)
- What’s the going rate for a pardon these days? (bloomberg.com)
- How the U.S. built 5,000 ships during World War II. (construction-physics.com)
- Is American culture in terminal decline? (theatlantic.com)
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