Longform links: disruption and scale
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Outside the Box
- An excerpt from David Epstein's new book "Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better." (theatlantic.com)
- Five insights from David Epstein's "Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better." (nextbigideaclub.com)
- Derek Thompson talks with David Epstein, author of "Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better." (podcasts.apple.com)
- An excerpt from David Epstein's new book "Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better." (derekthompson.org)
Books
- An excerpt from "Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It" by Samuel Moyn. (harpers.org)
- An excerpt from “Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York” by Dylan Gottlieb. (nytimes.com)
- An excerpt from "I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI for Almost Everything" by Joanna Stern. (wsj.com)
- An excerpt from "Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works," by Helen Pearson. (slate.com)
Industry
- Why do airlines seem to go bankrupt so often? (davidoks.blog)
- How an oil refinery works. (construction-physics.com)
Medicine
- A new pill could extend the lives of dogs. How would that change our relationship with them? (theatlantic.com)
- How Johnson & Johnson ($JNJ) turned ketamine, via Spravato, into a blockbuster depression drug. (bloomberg.com)
History
- The Revolutionary War was, in part, a battle over documents. (smithsonianmag.com)
- Tyler Cowen talks with Kim Bowes, author of "Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent." (conversationswithtyler.com)
Sports
- How Curt Cignetti accomplished the greatest turnaround in modern sports. (nytimes.com)
- How Everest has changed since the publishing of "Into Thin Air." (theatlantic.com)
- How athletes are extending their careers longer than ever before. (nytimes.com)
Longreads
- Are prediction markets good for anything? (asteriskmag.com)
- How the tech sector got co-opted by the most corrupt administration in American history. (theatlantic.com)
- Online casino-style games generate 'an astonishing amount of actual revenue.' (bloomberg.com)
- On the enshittification of the USA. (thebulwark.com)
- A look at the human cost of American farm closures. (nytimes.com)
- How fatherhood has changed over time. (derekthompson.org)
- On the evidence for the theory of ego depletion. (unsafescience.substack.com)
- Jon Greenaway, "The horror of The Tonight Show is perfected not in its live broadcast, but in its fragmentation and digital afterlife. The show is precision-crafted for algorithmic engagement." (currentaffairs.org)
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