Finance
- Robert Seawright, "Stories are cultureâs way of teaching us what is important." (rpseawright.wordpress.com)
- Is Bridgewater Associates a "hedge fund or social experiment"? (nytimes.com)
- Finance is a technology that made civilization possible. (blogs.cfainstitute.org)
- Why love and loath the character of Gordon Gekko. (review.chicagobooth.edu)
Amazon
- An army of retirees in RVs helps keep the Amazon ($AMZN) machine running. (wired.com)
- How Amazon's use of robots is changing the work equation in its warehouses. (nytimes.com)
Big Tech
- We don't need to accept the power of Big Tech as a fait accompli. (washingtonpost.com)
- The words 'big tech' and 'anti-trust' are getting bandied about more frequently. (buzzfeed.com)
Food
- Why did our hunter-gatherer ancestors switch to farming? (newyorker.com)
- Rising CO2 levels are affecting (negatively) the nutritional content of the food we grow. (politico.com)
Longform
- A dozen lessons about business and life from Jimmy Iovine. (25iq.com)
- Why its best to think about cities as complex adaptive systems. (farnamstreetblog.com)
- Why you shouldn't idolize Mark Felt, i.e. 'Deep Throat' or Watergate fame. (politico.com)
- How can you find yourself if 'the self' is an elusive concept? (aeon.co)
- What it was like to attend the iPhone event at the new Steve Jobs Theater. (recode.net)
- In defense of bourgeois values. (nymag.com)