Longform links: doing meaningful work
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
1 day ago
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Books
- An excerpt from “The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy” by Ray D. Madoff. (vox.com)
- An excerpt from “The Hypocrisy Trap: How Changing What We Criticize Can Improve Our Lives” by Michael Hallsworth. (behavioralscientist.org)
- Annie Duke talks with Corinne Low, author of the new book, “Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women’s Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours.” (annieduke.substack.com)
- An excerpt from Kori Schake’s new book, “The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States.” (theatlantic.com)
- An excerpt from “Notes on Being a Man” by Scott Galloway. (tim.blog)
AI
- Sometimes AI breaks bad, and nobody knows why. (wired.com)
- Is Ai going to cause us to lose our skills? (theatlantic.com)
- A profile of Ed Zitron, noted AI gadfly. (wired.com)
Government
- America’s defense manufacturers have a labor problem. (politico.com)
- The National Parks Service is being slowly dismantled. (republic.land)
- The devastation from Texas flooding was exacerbated by a poorly performing emergency radio system. (nytimes.com)
- In many states culture wars trump actual teaching. (propublica.org)
Iowa
- Iowa is ground zero for nitrate-filled water. (newrepublic.com)
- Why are cancer rates on the rise among young Iowans? (wapo.st)
Longreads
- Canada’s Gen Z is also YOLOing their finances. (macleans.ca)
- How delivery has upended the restaurant business in America. (theatlantic.com)
- Why China has an overproduction problem. (foreignaffairs.com)
- How Binance founder Changpeng Zhao scored a pardon. (citationneeded.news)
- On the role crypto ATMs play in online scams. (cnn.com)
- Was traditional journalism murdered or did it commit suicide? (harpers.org)
- How Moldova has nearly eliminated the need for orphanages. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
- A profile of Budimir Šobat who holds the record for the longest breath ever held. (outsideonline.com)
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