Hopefully, you’ve all had a fine summer – here are some interesting articles that piqued OM’s interest over the break!
With Christmas on the horizon, OM like many other parents is turning his thought to what to buy the kids (Mrs. OM has so far vetoed coal, laundry bags, and Clorox wipes!). What better time to read about Al Kahn – whose made and lost (and made again) fortunes – and is behind toys such as Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh! And Cabbage Patch kids!
(Scott Eden, Inc.)
Parenting is hard, and surprisingly the books on it contain little science or even insight from wise moms! Eric Barker looks at the lessons from Michealeen Doucleff’s book (“Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans.”) drawn from her time spent with the Maya in Mexico, the Inuit in the Arctic, and Hadzabe near the Serengeti. OM found the suggestions interesting and is trying to implement some of them into our daily lives!
(Eric Barker, Barking Up the Wrong Tree)
For those football fans amongst us, the shenanigans at Barcelona over the last 12-18 months have been quite something to behold! The Generalist has a great look at the business-side of Barcelona, and how it all went wrong including their spectacular profligacy and how they’re trying to fix those problems.
(Mario Gabriele, The Generalist)
The inability to define, let alone effectively research or treat long Covid continues to be a glaring weakness in the medical response. Unfortunately, post-pandemic/epidemic and post-viral ailments are consistently under-researched with few historical lessons learned.
(Zeynep Tufekci, The Insight)
Now that it’s had its first institutional blow-up, I guess we can count crypto as a real asset class. In a tale as old as finance Jen Wieczner goes inside the collapse of Three Arrows, run by Su Zhu and Kyle Davies. The two-Ivy League-educated and Wall Street-trained investors blew up their multi-billion-dollar firm and took down a large part of the crypto industry with them. Unsurprisingly it involves hubris, non-existent risk management and a lot of leverage.
(Jen Wieczner, both NY Mag)
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