Longform links: the great paradoxes of life
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
3 weeks ago
2 MIN READ
Books
- Insights from “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It” by Cory Doctorow. (prospect.org)
- A Q&A with Carl Bendikt Frey, author of “How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations.” (fasterplease.substack.com)
- An excerpt from “This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web” by Tim Berners-Lee. (theguardian.com)
Technology
- A look at the (very) addictive nature of TikTok. (washingtonpost.com)
- If AI succeeds, it will only make wealth inequality worse. (hamiltonnolan.com)
- People are increasingly using chatbots as personal assistants. (ig.ft.com)
Health
- Did you know private equity plays a big role in pharmaceutical clinical trials? (nytimes.com)
- The fight against valley fever is at-risk from funding cuts. (grist.org)
- The story of how the polio vaccine was made, and changed the world. (thebulwark.com)
Business
- Why every company wants to be an unregulated bank. (jacobin.com)
- Japan is getting more comfortable with letting ‘zombie companies’ die. (bloomberg.com)
- The story of Standard Oil will sound familiar to people today. (austinvernon.site)
Longreads
- Why some people are mad the stock market has gone up. (noahpinion.blog)
- Why we need more innovation in shipmaking. (freethink.com)
- It’s hard to fathom how far humans have progressed. (forkingpaths.co)
- The veterans that are abusing the VA’s disability program. (wapo.st)
- How the Constitution is at risk. (nytimes.com)
- The rise and fall of the American foodie. (eater.com)
- Lesson learned from a ‘ridiculous’ dog’s life. (twopct.com)
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