Longform links: harvesting knowledge
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Books
- Annie Duke talks with Judd Kessler, author of "Lucky by Design: The Hidden Economics You Need to Get More of What You Want." (annieduke.substack.com)
- An excerpt from "Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling," by Danny Funt. (defector.com)
- An excerpt from "Armed With Sensitivity: A General’s Perspective on Leadership" by General Boekholt O’Sullivan. (thequietlife.net)
Tech
- How robotics is going to make a leap forward. (notboring.co)
- What's left behind after a (AI) bubble bursts. (theguardian.com)
- Why Silicon Valley types think they have important things to say about just about everything in public life. (colossus.com)
Foreign policy
- Drezner and Saunders, "The foundations of American power are rooted in the rule of law at home and credible commitment abroad, the very things that Trump has attempted to dismantle." (foreignaffairs.com)
- Robert Kagan, "For decades, much of the world supported a United States that acted on these principles and accepted America’s power, despite its flaws and errors, precisely because it did not act solely out of narrow self-interest—much less in the narrow, selfish interest of a single ruler." (theatlantic.com)
Longreads
- The Trump family fortune is increasingly tied to crypto. (msn.com)
- How are things going at the new-ish University of Austin? (politico.com)
- Is enshittification the driver of higher corporate profit margins? (abnormalreturns.com)
- Even in the best of time, governing Venezuela is a challenge. (nytimes.com)
- A big profile of historian Adam Tooze. (theguardian.com)
- Our collective ability to argue well has withered. (investing101.substack.com)
- How modernity changed our relationship with time. (aeon.co)
- Public saunas are making a comeback. (bloomberg.com)
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