Longform links: getting your money’s worth
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
13 hours ago
2 MIN READ
Books
- Insights from Ray Madoff’s “The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy.” (crr.bc.edu)
- Five insights from Walter Isaacson’s new book, “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” (nextbigideaclub.com)
- Chapter 1 from Brian Potter’s new book “The Origins of Efficiency.” (construction-physics.com)
- An excerpt from “Everyday Driven: Poetry in Motion: The Precision and Passion of the Motorcar” by Pete Weishaupt. (everydaydriven.com)
Business
- How U.S. tech giants transformed Ireland. (thedial.world)
- You probably use this company’s product every day, but don’t know much about it. (quartr.com)
- A look at how the Boring Company operates. (fortune.com)
- Do you really want to give a tech company direct access to your brain? (nytimes.com)
Environment
- Geothermal energy is abundant. The technology now meets the moment. (newyorker.com)
- The countries most at-risk of rising temperatures are the last able to adapt and mitigate. (propublica.org)
- Recycling used car batteries comes a high human cost. (nytimes.com)
- These scientists are trying to preserve our world for future generations. (noemamag.com)
- Why we should care what happens to frogs. (washingtonpost.com)
Investing
- A deep dive into the Total Portfolio Approach. (on.ft.com)
- Essential wisdom of the best personal finance books summarized. (elmwealth.com)
Entertainment
- Hollywood producers are getting squeezed from every direction. (variety.com)
- Using AI to map an artist’s, i.e. Bob Dylan, work over time. (aeon.co)
Longreads
- Money laundering is alive and well on big crypto exchanges. (nytimes.com)
- Why so many VC-backed startups start looking all the same. (investing101.substack.com)
- The ultra-wealthy are spending more to maintain their privacy. (wsj.com)
- Can tariffs break out addiction to cheap stuff? (wsj.com)
- Sofi Thanhauser, “Let’s not forget that inventing a cure isn’t the same as giving Americans access to one. Miracle cures mean little for the uninsured.” (vqronline.org)
- In defense of men and their ‘collective urge for competence.’ (willstorr.substack.com)
- New York City’s bodegas aren’t going anywhere. (nytimes.com)
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