Longform links: inverting our lives
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Books
- Five insights from "How to Disagree Better" by Julia Minson. (nextbigideaclub.com)
- Five insights from "Hard Feelings: Finding the Wisdom in Our Darkest Emotions" by Daniel Smith. (nextbigideaclub.com)
Companies
- Is Disney ($DIS) now just milking the theme parks? (readtrung.com)
- How Airbnb ($ABNB) came to create a category. (fiscal.ai)
- The story of Chipotle ($CMG). (quartr.com)
Bitcoin
- The search for the inventor of Bitcoin lands on a new candidate. (nytimes.com)
- Then again, does it really matter any more? (ft.com)
Longreads
- Willy Staley, "With so much of our world being so rapidly reshaped for such stupid reasons, it’s hard not to feel as if we’re living in one of the canonical A.I. doom scenarios without even noticing it." (nytimes.com)
- Hungary's economy under Orban is a story of corruption and decline. (cato.org)
- Another example of how budget cuts are affecting science education. (statnews.com)
- The environmental history of offshore oil drilling isn't great. (newyorker.com)
- Is America really seeing a religious revival? What the numbers actually say. (derekthompson.org)
- How the British experienced the Revolutionary War. (smithsonianmag.com)
- Life lessons learned from abandoned storage units. (nytimes.com)
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