Books
- A Q&A with Michele Gelfand author of “Rule Makers Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World.” (behavioralscientist.org)
- An excerpt from “The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire” by Tim Schwab. (nextbigideaclub.com)
- A Q&A with Jay Owens author of “Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles.” (wired.com)
- An excerpt from “Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative” by Jennifer Burns. (washingtonpost.com)
Profiles
- Barry Gibb is arguably the most successful songwriter in history. (washingtonpost.com)
- A profile of actress Stephanie Courtney, aka Flo from Progressive. (nytimes.com)
Longreads
- Jason Zweig looks at life of Charlie Munger who in end “tried to be useful.” (wsj.com)
- Richard R. John, “The American tech industry has never been an entrepreneurial free-for-all. Much of the country’s information infrastructure was built atop a telephone system that depended on local, state, and federal regulation.” (theatlantic.com)
- A big profile of Nvidia ($NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang, a ‘a patient monopolist.’ (newyorker.com)
- Red states are having a hard time holding onto college graduates. (newrepublic.com)
- Why one Florida librarian felt the need to quit the profession. (washingtonpost.com)
- Why we get tripped up by randomness. (behavioralscientist.org)