10 Weekend Reads

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Good Saturday morn: Pour yourself a strong cup of black joe, and settle in for our long form weekend reads: • The Cook and the Chef: Elon Musk’s Secret Sauce (Wait But Why) • The Discovery of Statistical Regression (Priceonomics) see also Playing the Probabilities (A Wealth of Common Sense) • Howard Buffett Is Getting His Hands Dirty (Bloomberg)...Read More

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The Big Idea: Emma Newman

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Is there space within a genre of big ideas for a little thing called “characters”? Emma Newman sought to find out in her novel Planetfall. Here she is with a report on what she discovered. EMMA NEWMAN: Science-fiction is a genre of big ideas. When I think back to the science-fiction I have read and […]

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Sunday assorted links

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1. What college should be: extreme study abroad (NYT). 2. Double proof — no triple proof — that Washington, D.C. is a provincial town. 3. Adam Ozimek on whether Uber’s service will get worse.  Here Uber delivers kittens, for a “snuggle fee.”  Here is Zack Kanter making breathless claims, albeit with documentation but I see […]

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