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Longform links: economic surrealism
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Books
- Annie Duke talks with Rosalind Chow author of "The Doors You Can Open: A New Way to Network, Build Trust, and Use Your Influence to Create a More Inclusive Workplace." (annieduke.substack.com)
- An excerpt from "How to Fall in Love with Questions" by Elizabeth Weingarten. (behavioralscientist.org)
- An excerpt from "Learning to See: Inside the World’s Leading Art and Design Schools" by Keith Sawyer (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
- An excerpt from "Year of the Rat: Undercover in the British Far Right" by Harry Shukman. (theguardian.com)
Manufacturing
- Why the iPhone can't be built in the U.S. (ig.ft.com)
- Why manufacturing isn't coming back to the U.S. any time soon. (molsonhart.com)
Language
- Why have sentence lengths decreased? (lesswrong.com)
- The current administration uses all sorts of language to 'other' people. (thomaszimmer.substack.com)
History
- Stanford Research Park has housed some of America's most innovative companies. (thehustle.co)
- The 6888th, also known as the Six Triple Eight, was the only Black, all-female unit to serve overseas in World War II. (smithsonianmag.com)
- The story of Operation Babylift, 50 years later. (theverge.com)
Longreads
- Why making a robot dexterous is so challenging. (construction-physics.com)
- Why Ukraine relies so heavily on drones. (nytimes.com)
- Australia is stuck between two powers: China and the U.S. (ft.com)
- The many reasons why you are still single. (thezvi.substack.com)
- Why we dress the way we do. (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
