Longform links: outsourcing predictions
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 "How to Disagree Better" by Julia Minson. (annieduke.substack.com)
- Five insights from "Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences" by Neal Allen and Anne Lamott. (nextbigideaclub.com)
- A Q&A with Josh Owens, author of "The Madness of Believing: A Memoir from Inside Alex Jones' Conspiracy Machine.." (npr.org)
The Infinity Machine
- An excerpt from “The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence,” by Sebastian Mallaby. (wsj.com)
- David Senra has read “The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence,” by Sebastian Mallaby. (open.spotify.com)
- An excerpt from “The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence,” by Sebastian Mallaby. (colossus.com)
Apple
- An oral history of the early days of Apple ($AAPL). (fastcompany.com)
- How Japanese ideas about quality affected Steve Jobs and Apple ($AAPL). (ft.com)
History
- Why Scotland punched above its economic weight. (ageofinvention.xyz)
- Why the Renaissance started in Florence. (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
Longreads
- Jobs are a bundle of tasks. AI can replace some of them. (asymco.com)
- It's hard to imagine a world without the spreadsheet. (davidoks.blog)
- What we lose when we outsource our thinking to machines. (theamericanscholar.org)
- Where new manufacturing startups are happening. (agglomerations.eig.org)
- What happens if vaccines go away? A simulation. (projects.propublica.org)
- Friction rules the world around us. (abnormalreturns.com)
- We can't ever truly revive an extinct species, but we can do something else. (aeon.co)
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