• That is essentially the most consequential know-how in America: (Spoiler alert: It’s YouTube.) It’s the most well-liked social app and music service, the healthiest financial system on the web and AI coaching gas. (Washington Publish)

• What I Discovered from Daniel Kahneman. What’s one of the best ways to get higher funding returns? Must you examine markets extra deeply and analyze each asset extra fastidiously? Must you attempt to anticipate different folks’s errors and exploit their stupidity? I consider that’s obligatory, however not ample. It’s essential to additionally attempt to predict, decrease and study out of your errors. Blindness to our personal blunders is the largest single impediment to investing success. (Wall Avenue Journal)

• What Makes Housing So Costly? Taking a look at housing prices mainly by means of the lens of single-family houses, we see the prices of constructing them largely map to US housing prices typically. There’s additionally a considerable amount of information accessible on single-family house development that doesn’t exist (or is far much less accessible) for different forms of housing. And most multi-family condominium buildings within the US might be constructed utilizing the identical primary know-how, light-framed wooden, used to construct single-family houses, a lot of what we study single-family prices, significantly on the development facet, will apply to multi-family flats as properly. (Development Physics)

• How a Pioneering Blackjack Grasp Beats the Odds of Growing old: Legendary gambler and hedge fund supervisor Edward Thorp, 91, shares what he’s realized about train, eating regimen and managing threat in all areas of life. (Businessweek)

• The Podcast Host Who Additionally Manages a $1.6 Trillion Funding Fund: High CEOs speak to Norway’s sovereign-wealth fund supervisor. This week’s visitor was Elon Musk on the way forward for AI. (Wall Avenue Journal)

• Behind the Curtain: America’s actuality distortion machine: What if we’ve been deceived into pondering we’re extra divided, extra dysfunctional and extra defeated than we really are? (Axios)

• Darkish Matter: For twenty years, PostSecret has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths—and revealed the boundaries of limitless disclosure. (Hazlitt)

• The Eclipse That Ended a Warfare and Shook the Gods Eternally: Thales, a Greek thinker 2,600 years in the past, is widely known for predicting a well-known photo voltaic eclipse and founding what got here to be generally known as science. (New York Occasions)

• Is Jackson Holliday the perfect baseball prospect now we have ever seen? His stats —at each stage — are, frankly, superb. In his senior 12 months of highschool — in Stillwater, Oklahoma — Holliday had 89 hits in 40 video games. He hit .685. He hit 17 house runs and had 79 RBI. In 40 video games!!! After being the #1 general choose within the 2022 Main League Baseball draft, Holliday performed at a number of ranges of the minors. Right here had been his mixed stats: 477 AB , 154 Hits, 113 Runs, 12 HRs, 51 XBH, 75 RBIs, 101 Walks, .323 AVG, .442 OBP, .499 SLG, .941 OPS. He was voted minor league participant of the 12 months in 2023. This 12 months, he hit a house run in his first at-bat for the Orioles AAA affiliate. (The Replay)

• Larry David’s Rule E book for How (Not) to Reside in Society: He’s a wild, monomaniacal jerk. He’s additionally our best interpreter of American manners since Emily Publish. (New York Occasions)