10 Weekend Reads – The Large Image

• ‘Three New York Cities’ Value of Energy: AI Is Stressing the Grid. Throughout the nation, utilities are frightened about increasing the overburdened energy grid, citing excessive prices and issues about dedication from information middle initiatives (Wall Avenue Journal)

• RIP John ‘Mac’ McQuown, the OG quant The daddy of passive investing has handed away. Pioneers typically get undue credit score for merely being the primary of many making an attempt to achieve the promised land. Even when that they had by no means been born, their discovery would have occurred across the identical time anyway. Different occasions they grow to be the figurehead of what was actually a collective breakthrough. But when there was a real father of passive investing then it was John “Mac” McQuown. (Monetary Occasions)

• Is an AI Bubble Forward of Us or Behind Us? The best bubbles want a transformational expertise and a ripe macro and financial backdrop, and we now have each. (Bridgewater)

• This App Set Out to Struggle Pesticides. After VCs Stepped In, Now It Helps Promote Them. Plantix began with the mission of constructing farming extra environmentally pleasant. So how did it find yourself promoting the very merchandise it wished to struggle in opposition to? (Wired)

• She’s One among Florida’s Most Deadly Python Hunters …however the Invasive Creatures Nonetheless Have a Maintain on Her. Donna Kalil has plunged into canals at nighttime, straddled two-hundred-pound serpents, and been bitten extra occasions than she will be able to rely—all within the title of killing a factor she loves and enjoying a recreation she will be able to’t win. (Backyard & Gun)

• The Highest-Paid Useless Celebrities Of 2024. Matthew Perry joins a heavenly refrain of pop stars—together with Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury and Whitney Houston—as the best earners within the nice past. (Forbes)

• Why do folks nonetheless again Trump, after the whole lot? 5 issues to know about MAGA supporters’ pondering: Extra just lately, I’ve been inspecting poisonous polarization – and methods to cease it. Many efforts to scale back folks’s polarized views start with an injunction: Pay attention and perceive. (The Dialog)

• The 20 finest artwork museums in America: The Submit’s artwork critics rank their favourite museums throughout the nation, based mostly on their collections, exhibitions and historical past of public engagement. (Washington Submit)

• If You Assume You Can Maintain a Grudge, Take into account the Crow: The brainy birds carry huge chips on their shoulders, scientists say. And a few individuals who grow to be topics of their ire could also be victims of mistaken identification. (New York Occasions)

• You Can’t Make Associates With The Rockstars: You can not make mates with the rock stars…when you’re going to be a real journalist, you recognize, a rock journalist. First, you by no means receives a commission a lot, however you’ll get free data from the report firm.
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