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Longform links: constitutional obstacles
Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. Wherever possible, free links for premium sites are used. You can check out...
Books
- A Q&A with Adam Becker author of "More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity." (arstechnica.com)
- An excerpt from "How to Fall in Love with Questions: A New Way to Thrive in Times of Uncertainty" by Elizabeth Weingarten. (behavioralscientist.org)
- Anne Helen Petersen talks with Jennifer Levin — author of "Generation Care: The New Culture of Caregiving." (annehelen.substack.com)
Business
- Are VC-backed companies inventing the future or reinventing old models? (moneywithkatie.com)
- There's plenty wrong with the cruise industry, but building big new ships isn't one of them. (worksinprogress.news)
- A profile of Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb ($ABNB). (wsj.com)
- The history of the personal computer. (thechipletter.substack.com)
Ice
- How ice sculpted the geography of Canada. (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
- NASA has rediscovered a Cold War era U.S. military base under the ice of Greenland. (wsj.com)
Longreads
- Why Taiwan's life insurance companies have a big dollar problem. (on.ft.com)
- How researchers came up with a treatment for multiple myeloma and why it is still prohibitively expensive. (propublica.org)
- Undersea mining could create a lot of destruction, with an uncertain payoff. (on.ft.com)
- Why do so many police officers die by suicide? (nytimes.com)
- We need be a little bored to be creative. (lithub.com)
- How wealth smooths over frictions in life. (kyla.substack.com)
- Cultural stagnation is real. (noahpinion.blog)
