Longform links: obsolete virtues
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
14 hours ago
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Books
- Brett McKay talks with John Richardson, co-author of “Never Settle: Persuasion and Negotiation Skills to Get What You Want.” (artofmanliness.com)
- Five insights from Roopika Risam’s new book, “Data Empire: The Power of Information to Organize, Control, and Dominate.” (nextbigideaclub.com)
- Zachary Karabell talks with David Epstein, author of “Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better.” (podcasts.apple.com)
- An excerpt from “What Happened to Liberal Democracy?: Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity” by Daron Acemoglu. (theatlantic.com)
- A Q&A with Rowan Jacobsen author of “In Defense of Sunlight: The Surprising Science of Sun Exposure.” (scientificamerican.com)
Business
- Meta’s ($META) deal with Louisiana for a giant data center keeps looking more one-sided (nytimes.com)
- Copart ($CPRT) plays a crucial role in the auto industry. (fiscal.ai)
- When you lock up goods, people buy less of them. (dannykatch.substack.com)
- How quality erodes over time. (worseonpurpose.com)
Society
- We shouldn’t be surprised that America’s leaders are getting older. (theargumentmag.com)
- It’s hard to see how the modern manosphere actually makes mens’ lives better. (theatlantic.com)
- Plastic surgery is getting normalized and it breaking out brains along the way. (newyorker.com)
Longreads
- The top VC firms are taking a bigger share of deals. (pitchbook.com)
- Why Justin Sun is suing World Liberty Financial. (nymag.com)
- The Tour de France is big business and one family keeps a tight grip on it. (nytimes.com)
- The ancient world was more global than previously thought. (aeon.co)
- Why SFPD closes so few rape cases. (sfstandard.com)
- Johnny Knoxville put his body on the line for entertainment purposes. (newyorker.com)
- This is the real literacy crisis. (trevoraleo.substack.com)
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