Longform links: intertwined fates
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Construction
- "Abundance" co-authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson talk with “Why Nothing Works” author Marc Dunkelman about the state of the abundance agenda. (podcasts.apple.com)
- Construction costs move in one direction: up. (construction-physics.com)
- Jim O'Shaughnessy talks with Brian Potter about what prevents the U.S. from building more, cheaper housing. (infiniteloopspodcast.com)
Global
- Why countries are wary of becoming too dependent on American energy. (ig.ft.com)
- How Péter Magyar toppled Viktor Orban. (thebulwark.com)
Technology
- We are still living with the potential for cyberattacks affecting infrastructure. (newyorker.com)
- There is no modern chip making without these ASML lithography machines. (worksinprogress.co)
- A profile of Dwarkesh Patel who talks with tech industry luminaries. (nytimes.com)
- On the trauma of losing a hard drive filled with digital stuff. (newyorker.com)
Longreads
- Scott Santens, "Angine de Poitrine and Einstein are what we get when people are free to do what they truly want." (scottsantens.com)
- Pardons are easy to get these days. All you need is money. (newyorker.com)
- The pandemic wrecked American happiness. (derekthompson.org)
- It took Nike ($NKE) decades to build an impenetrable moat. It took a few years to tear it down. (towardevergreen.com)
- Benches are disappearing from public spaces. (placesjournal.org)
- The life of an elite chess grand master is lonely and stressful. (thewalrus.ca)
- An oral history of The Harvard Lampoon. (wapo.st)
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