Books
- An excerpt from “On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America” by Abrahm Lustgarten. (theatlantic.com)
- A Q&A with Jonathan Haidt author of “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.” (davidepstein.substack.com)
- An excerpt from “Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout” by Cal Newport. (behavioralscientist.org)
Productivity
- The problem with the pursuit of better productivity: it’s never enough. (esquire.com)
- The good life can’t be spent entirely in building human capital. (hedgehogreview.com)
Finance
- How infrastructure became a big, and growing, asset class. (on.ft.com)
- Why the Carlyle Group ($CG) has underperformed its PE competitors. (bloomberg.com)
Defense
- Anduril leads a pack of startups looking to break into the defense industry. (on.ft.com)
- How drone warfare is playing out in Ukraine. (reuters.com)
Longreads
- How Apple’s ($AAPL) app store policies put it at risk from the DoJ. (stratechery.com)
- The case against Medicare Advantage plans. (barrons.com)
- A profile of Jonathan Haidt, author of “The Anxious Generation,” on the problems facing smartphone generations. (nytimes.com)
- The UK has stagnated under Conservative leadership. Is there a way forward? (newyorker.com)
- Why did supersonic passenger planes fail commercially? (construction-physics.com)
- Invasive wild pigs need a predator. (bbc.com)
- On the death of effective altruism as a movement. (wired.com)
