10 Weekend Reads

July 20, 2013 7:15am by Barry Ritholtz

Pull up a chair, pour a cup of joe, and dig in to my longer form weekend reading list:

• The Gates Effect (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Jack Handey Is the Envy of Every Comedy Writer in America (NYT Magazine)
• Morgan Stanley is having an identity crisis (Quartz)
• An interview with Tim Harford and an excerpt from his new book, Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure (boingboing)
• Automation Anxiety (Wilson Quarterly)
• 8 Successful Entrepreneurs Give Their Younger Selves Lessons They Wish They’d Known Then (Fast Company)
• The Case of the Trombone and the Mysterious Disappearing Camera: As cameras become smaller and more ubiquitous, they risk disappearing entirely (Tribeca)
• From Coast to Toast: America’s most golden coastal enclaves wage losing battles against erosion (Vanity Fair)
• The Strange Disappearance of Cooperation in America (Social Evolution Forum) see also How Fox News created a new culture of idiots (Salon)
• The Inner Game Of Everything: Why Is A Four-Decade-Old Tennis Book Still A Self-Help Sensation? (BuzzFeed)

Whats up for the weekend?

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