Weekend Reads #441
A collection of cross-disciplinary thoughts, perspectives, and opinions
How personal financial interests have intersected with government decision-making inside the Trump administration. - Link
The core tools of PE value creation—high leverage, cash extraction, and short-term exit incentives—externalize predictable risks to third parties including workers, healthcare patients, consumers, unsecured creditors, communities and the environment. - Link
The constraints imposed by brand ultimately depend on some of the worst features of human psychology. So when you have a world defined only by brand, it’s going to be a weird, bad world. - Link
The three greatest virtues of programmers are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. - Link
GLP‑1 drugs may fight addiction across every major substance - Link
Terry Tao - Machine assistance and the future of research mathematics - Link
Neil Postman - “The Surrender of Culture to Technology” - Podcast
To have a child is to fall in love with a thousand beautiful strangers. - Link
Olympic pressure is unique to each performer. It can inspire, and it can cripple. You can’t see it. Yet it’s undeniable. - Link
