Greycourt: Fifteen on Friday #511

Happy Thanksgiving-

Best wishes for your holiday weekend ahead!

Cheers,

David

Featured Articles:

AfterBabel – Algorithms Hijacked My Generation. I Fear For Gen Alpha. Freya India explains how algorithms act as conveyor belts, transporting girls to dark and extreme places
Vogue – Lauren Sánchez Is Looking to the Future – In-depth with the future Mrs. Bezos
WSJ – Travis Kelce Opens Up About Taylor Swift and What Comes Next A few months ago, he was merely football famous. Now Travis Kelce is ready to tell his story. ‘I’ve never dated anyone with that kind of aura about them.’
TheAtlantic – The Hidden Cost of Cheap TVs Screens have gotten inexpensive—and they’re watching you back.
HuffPo – We’ve Broken Down Your Entire Life Into Years Spent Doing Tasks – A throwback but always interesting

Business / Markets:

NYMag – ‘Ray, This Is a Religion’ How the world’s largest hedge fund lost two top hires
NewYorker – China’s Age of Malaise Party officials are vanishing, young workers are “lying flat,” and entrepreneurs are fleeing the country. What does China’s inner turmoil mean for the world?
Coatue – AI: The Coming Revolution
NYT – A 30-Year Trap: The Problem With America’s Weird Mortgages One big reason the U.S. housing market is broken: Owners don’t want to give up their cushy old loans.
Stratechery – OpenAI’s Misalignment and Microsoft’s Gain

Others…

SciAm – What Is Benford’s Law? Why This Unexpected Pattern of Numbers Is Everywhere – Credit ML – A curious mathematical phenomenon called Benford’s law governs the numbers all around us
NYT – Will the Tie Ever Make a Comeback? – Credit CW
TheGuardian – ‘It never ends’: the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake – Credit CN
USAToday – North Carolina field hockey, under 23-year-old coach Erin Matson, wins historic NCAA title
WSJ – We Now Need College Courses to Teach Young Adults How to Make Small Talk Professors are teaching elementary chitchat skills to students who are woefully behind in the basics. ‘I love how you mentioned Brian’s name’