The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of French Press coffee, grab a comfy seat, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads:
• The Folly of Stock Market Forecasting (Alpha Architect)
• Charles Koch’s Interview with Fortune (full transcript) (Fortune)
• Machine Money and People Money — What’s The Future of Work? (Medium)
• How a $2 Roadside Drug Test Sends Innocent People to Jail (NYT)
• Metaknowledge: Crowds aren’t as smart as we thought, since some people know more than others. A simple trick can find the ones you want (Aeon)
• Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy (MoJo)
• How technology disrupted the truth: Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. (The Guardian)
• The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists (Vox)
• A GOP Cure for Trumpism (NYT Mag)
• Leaked Data Reveals How the U.S. Trains Vast Numbers of Foreign Soldiers and Police With Little Oversight (The Intercept)
Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Richard Haass president of the Council on Foreign Relations, discussing events overseas.
France Terror Timeline
Source: BBC
