Longform links: inefficient interactions
Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. Wherever possible, free links for premium sites are used. You can check out...
Books
- An excerpt from "Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East" by Matthew Cole. (vanityfair.com)
- Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway talk with Jeanna Smialek about her book, "The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth: How a Nineteenth-Century Novelist Taught the World Economics." (podcasts.apple.com)
- A Q&A with Rebecca Neuster, author of “911, What’s Your Emergency?: The Promise and Peril of Crisis Response.” (themarshallproject.org)
- An excerpt from "The Internet Will Die, and So Will You: On Learning to Live in Our Digital Age" by John West. (theatlantic.com)
- An excerpt from "Darkness Becomes Bright: On the Brief Life and Immortal Art of Edgar Allan Poe" by Emily Ogden. (slate.com)
AI
- Kyle Harrison, "The businesses that win with AI will be the ones that treat people as partners in creating value, not as a line item to optimize out." (investing101.substack.com)
- Why the success of TSMC Arizona matters so much. (nytimes.com)
- Venkatesh Rao, "(T)he most important consequence of the AI revolution may not be that intelligence production becomes more efficient. It may be that most minds, human and eventually artificial, are liberated from the necessity of producing intelligence merely to survive, and become free to discover what they actually want to do with it." (contraptions.venkateshrao.com)
Longreads
- Today's prestige jobs are based on the past, not the future. (youngmoney.co)
- A look at the people who are trying to erase their MAGA history. (lucasbean.substack.com)
- Why MAGA admires El Salvador's Bukele so much. (theguardian.com)
- How BPC-157 became a star among the peptide crowd. (nytimes.com)
- Ukraine is not giving up on the effort to bring the perpetrators of the Bucha massacre to justice. (wsj.com)
- Why don't new buildings have fire escapes? (practical.engineering)
- The Savannah Bananas are a runaway success. (wsj.com)
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