Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at who really killed Jimmy Hoffa.
Profiles
- A profile of Beyond Meat ($BYND) founder and CEO Ethan Brown. (latimes.com)
- Why is Merck Mercuriadis paying so much for song publishing rights? (marker.medium.com)
- A big profile of Malcolm Gladwell author of "Talking to Strangers." (newstatesman.com)
- Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll's unique philosophy is being taught far outside the NFL. (nytimes.com)
- 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' is back. Cue the Larry David profile. (gq.com)
Book excerpts
- An excerpt from "The Power of Bad: How The Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It" by John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister. (forge.medium.com)
- An excerpt Kate Murphy's “You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters.” (nytimes.com)
Finance
- How did banking become so central to the U.S. economy? (newrepublic.com)
- Cash had a pretty good run. Will a digital currency ever have the 'same mix of convenience and freedom'? (technologyreview.com)
- A big private equity explainer. (vox.com)
Climate
- Why its worth thinking about what another decade of the climate crisis will bring. (newyorker.com)
- The Great Lakes are experiencing record changes in water levels. (chicagotribune.com)
Work
- On the many challenges working mothers still face in their careers. (wsj.com)
- Men are now feeling to need to look their best at work and that now includes plastic surgery. (washingtonpost.com)
Longreads
- What you think about the big cloud companies, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and Google, depends on where you think we are in the technology cycle. (stratechery.com)
- We now have the ability to change the gene line of an entire species. The question is should we? (nytimes.com)
- Roundup still dominates US fields but it now has a viable competitor. (wsj.com)
- Some of the world's coolest architecture is in Antarctica currently. (nytimes.com)