Longform links: the demise of writing
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
1 day ago
2 MIN READ
Books
- A Q&A with Cass Sunstein, author of “On Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom.” (newyorker.com)
- David Epstein talks with Charles Duhigg, author of “Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Communication.” (davidepstein.substack.com)
- An excerpt from Sheehan Quirke’s “The Cultural Tutor: Forty-Nine Lessons You Wish You’d Learned at School.” (jonn.substack.com)
- An in-depth review of Dan Wang’s “Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future.” (scottsumner.substack.com)
Business
- A deep dive into the business of American Express ($AXP). (quartr.com)
- Why this venture firm, 83North, is folding up shop instead of trying to execute a succession plan. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- Why you may want to think twice before buying a home from one of the national homebuilders. (hntrbrk.com)
Infrastructure
- Why wholesale electricity are rising in the U.S. Think bottlenecks. (construction-physics.com)
- How undersea cables are maintained. (restofworld.org)
Climate
- Joseph Howlett, “What happens when you double atmospheric carbon dioxide? — has indeed yielded a relatively simple answer: The Earth will get a few degrees hotter.” (quantamagazine.org)
- Greece is on the frontlines of the climate crisis. (pioneerworks.org)
Information
- Who profits from misinformation? (kyla.substack.com)
- Welcome to the post-literate society. (jmarriott.substack.com)
National security
- National security types are just as overconfident as the rest of of us. (tnsr.org)
- How Ukraine pivoted to drone warfare. (businessinsider.com)
Society
- Things can change. How public approval of same-sex marriage went from 11% to 70%. (aeon.co)
- The Catholic church is having troubling attracting new priests. (wsj.com)
- Fertility decisions can change over time. (advisorperspectives.com)
- Face-lift techniques have gotten really good. (thecut.com)
Longreads
- The 25 most interesting ideas of 2025 including ‘Young people hate alcohol now … and it shows.’ (derekthompson.org)
- A journalist’s first hand account of ICE detention. (bittersoutherner.com)
- Why don’t we do more to clean indoor air? (worksinprogress.co)
- How James Hoffmann came to dominate coffee talk on YouTube. (on.ft.com)
- Lessons learned from the UK’s most extreme cleaner. (theguardian.com)
- How villages grow into cities. (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
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