Good Saturday morning. Pour yourself a strong cup of joe, and settle in for our longer form, weekend reads:
• What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs (NYT Magazine)
• China is Planning to Purge Foreign Technology and Replace With Homegrown Suppliers (Bloomberg)
• The most powerful financial regulators in the world — and they never asked for the job (Medium)
• Why the Oil Rout Has Spread Economists See Benefits of Cheaper Oil. But Before the Gain, Markets Feel the Pain (WSJ)
• Can the stock market save millennials? ‘Depression babies’ must not run away from investing in stocks because it is their safest long-term bet, says Patrick O’Shaughnessy, the author of Millennial Money (The Guardian)
• Playing Chicken: Antibiotics made modern farming possible. By abusing them, we risk everything (The Walrus)
• ‘Asteroids’ and The Dawn of the Gamer Age (Daily Beast)
• The Problem with Music (The Baffler)
• Livin’ Thing: An Oral History of ‘Boogie Nights’(Grantland)
• Can You Survive the Navy Seal Workout? (Outside)
Whats up for the holiday weekend?
Bitcoin’s Collapse Is Worse Than the Ruble’s
Source: Quartz
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