Longform links: just-take-it culture
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
3 weeks ago
2 MIN READ
Books
- A Q&A with Andrew Ross Sorkin, author of “1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History.” (sherwood.news)
- A Q&A with Ray Madoff, author of “The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy.” (theconversation.com)
- An excerpt from “Shelter from the Storm: How Climate Change Is Creating a New Era of Migration” by Julian Hattem. (grist.org)
- Five insights from “The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age” by Alex Wellerstein. (nextbigideaclub.com)
- Insights from “Carthage: A New History of an Ancient Empire,” by Eve MacDonald. (smithsonianmag.com)
Work
- Why AI isn’t likely to eliminate jobs en masse. (stratechery.com)
- Like a lot of industries, the live music industry needs fresh blood. (bloomberg.com)
Industry
- Patrick O’Shaughnessy talks with Reed Hastings, co-founder of Netflix ($NFLX). (youtube.com)
- Big talk doesn’t mean a revival of nuclear energy in the U.S. is imminent. (giftarticle.ft.com)
- What are PBMs trying to hide? (hntrbrk.com)
Longreads
- How prediction markets could bleed into the real world. (bloomberg.com)
- We are in the ‘just take it’ era of the American economy. (riskgaming.com)
- Our Q&A with Cullen Roche, author of “Your Perfect Portfolio: The Ultimate Guide to Using the World’s Most Powerful Investing Strategies.” (abnormalreturns.com)
- Why rebuilding from the LA fires has been so slow. (wsj.com)
- How much can we rely on social science research? (asteriskmag.com)
- These college students went a week without phones. What did they learn? (nytimes.com)
- Lethal, autonomous AI drones are now here. (nytimes.com)
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