TheAtlantic – The New Age of Endless ParentingMore grown kids are in near-constant contact with their family. Some call this a failure to launch—but there’s another way to look at it.
TheFreePress – A Wife’s Revenge from Beyond the Grave Caught in a brutal divorce, Catherine Kassenoff committed medically assisted suicide. Then the campaign to destroy her ex-husband truly began.
TheAtlantic – White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings NowThe meeting-industrial complex has grown to the point that communications has eclipsed creativity as the central skill of modern work.
GMO – Passive Investing –“The problem has instead come from the dilemma of wanting to say fairly definitive things about the impact of passive investing on the stock market when it is exceedingly difficult to make conclusive statements about the effect of a single market change in an environment in which many other things have also changed over the same basic time scale”
Maubossin Stock Market Concentration – How Much is Too Much We review four topics in this report. First, we look at concentration over the past three-quarters of a century to see where we stand today. We also examine which companies have the largest stock market capitalizations and how that population has changed.
Sequoia – AI’s $600B QuestionThe AI bubble is reaching a tipping point. Navigating what comes next will be essential.
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NYT – The Joys and Challenges of Caring for Terrance the Octopus The Clifford family of Edmond, Okla., tracked down an octopus for their son Cal, 9, who has been infatuated with the sea animals for years. What they didn’t expect were the 50 hatchlings.
WSJ – Why America’s Berries Have Never Tasted So Good Driscoll’s had to figure out how to breed, produce and sell its most flavorful strawberries and raspberries. Now the strategy is starting to bear fruit