Links - March 8th, 2016
- Scenes From A Bust Owen Thomas - Mattermark
- The End of American Idealism Charles M. Blow - The New York Times
- Is group chat making you sweat? Jason Fried - Signal v. Noise
- Why Is Flying Still Expensive Even Though Fuel's Gotten So Cheap? Joe Pinsker - The Atlantic
- Hey, Bernie Sanders, Trade Isn't All Bad Noah Smith - Bloomberg View
“…like finding out that reading in low light can be bad for your eyes, & reacting by giving up books.”
- Insurance Fundamentals (Cont’d): Risk Aversion aka Concavity Albert Wenger - Continuations
By definition you expect to pay more for insurance than you expect get out of it. Yet, people pay for it. Wenger explains how this is not a contradiction: “Without risk aversion insurance math fundamentally would not add up.”
- Brilliant vs. Boring Planet Money (Podcast)
Warren Buffett vs. Hedge funds.
- The trouble with books Nick Szabo - Unenumerated
Here, Szabo argues that conditions around book publishing and distribution makes for little variety, and unnecessarily long documents. He calls it the “trouble with books”, and poses the internet as the solution. The “trouble with the internet” is noise. Publishers and editors used to be trusted gatekeepers, ensuring a certain level of quality. There is too much content to consume from the Internet firehose. How do we deal with content quality assurance and curation in the internet era? How do we pick what we read?
