10 Weekend Reads

Good Saturday morning. Here are my favorite longer format reading materials from the week:

• How Your Data Are Being Deeply Mined (New York Review of Books)
• UBER: The Black Car Company That People Love to Hate (Next City)
• Why the cult of hard work is counter-productive (New Statesman)
• Mental Model: Margin of Safety (Farnam Street)
• Separating Mine From Thine—on the history of land ownership (WSJ)
• Dear Ticketmaster, it’s time to redesign the master of all tickets (Medium)
• Adam Smith, Communitarian (American Conservative) see also God, Hayek and the Conceit of Reason (Standpoint)
• Charlie Chaplin: Split Personalities (Lapham’s Quarterly)
• Vermeer’s Secret Tool: Testing Whether The Artist Used Mirrors and Lenses to Create His Realistic Images (Vanity Fair)
• ‘And I Cannot Lie’: The Oral History of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s ‘Baby Got Back’ Video (Vulture)

What’s up for the weekend?

 

Municipal Bonds Wrap Up Tough Year

Source: WSJ

 

 

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