Longform links: the capacity to care
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
1 day ago
2 MIN READ
Books
- An excerpt from “The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World” by Peter Brannen. (bigthink.com)
- An excerpt from “iWAR: Fortnite, Elon Musk, Spotify, WeChat, and Laying Siege to Apple’s Empire,” by Tim Higgins. (wsj.com)
- An excerpt from “The Contemplative Leader: Uncover the Power of Presence and Connection” by Patrick Boland. (bigthink.com)
- An excerpt from “American Kings – A Biography Of The Quarterback” by Seth Wickersham. (theatlantic.com)
Dirtbag Billionaire
- Five insights from “Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away” by David Gelles. (nextbigideaclub.com)
- An excerpt from “Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away” by David Gelles. (nytimes.com)
Business
- The story of Uber ($UBER) is a tale of two CEOs. (quartr.com)
- Steve Cohen, owner of the Mets, is working hard to get a casino in Queens. (on.ft.com)
- NFL star Saquon Barkley has been an effective startup investor. (readtheprofile.com)
- Self-employment is a high-wire act. (annehelen.substack.com)
- Birding has become a big business. (audubon.org)
History
- How a 2019 SEAL raid into North Korea went wrong. (nytimes.com)
- How France built 40 nuclear reactors in a decade. (worksinprogress.co)
- Without Benjamin Franklin’s wartime efforts in France, there is no U.S. (wsj.com)
America
- How favorable geography benefits the USA. (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
- Americans are bound by shared culture, not ethnicity. (noahpinion.blog)
- Feeding the state of Alaska is no small thing. (hcn.org)
Housing
- America’s housing stock is aging and an increasing number of people can’t keep up. (msn.com)
- Despite all the talk, property taxes are here to stay. (progressandpoverty.substack.com)
Higher education
- The case for unbundling the American university. (persuasion.community)
- The humanities have always been in crisis. (thelocal.to)
Longreads
- The story of Mike Lynch and the sinking of the Bayesian. (wired.com)
- The newly pardoned Ross Ulbricht, of Silk Road infamy, is now on a comeback tour. (nytimes.com)
- Why the Gulf states have an affinity for Trump. (ft.com)
- Did equal-custody laws cause a drop in divorce rates in Kentucky? (wsj.com)
- Americans have forgotten, or never learned, the impact of a lack of childhood vaccinations. (npr.org)
- Remember when nanobots were going to change the world? (aeon.co)
- A look at some lost Ansel Adams photos. (sfgate.com)
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