“How a $168,000 Michael Jordan rookie card rocked the $15 billion trading card industry.”
Business Insider
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: Bezos, paper, scissors; feast or famine; one reason to stay here; any way you slice it; the real Winter Olympics, and more.
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What I Learned on My First Cruise
“My boyfriend won a free cruise playing Tetris. I went along, fully expecting to hate it.”
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A Year in Reading: The Dark Side of Progress
We’re moving farther, faster, than ever before. But we’re also destabilizing crucial areas of human experience.
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Inside the “Broletariat Revolution”
“Tech elites hate the media. So they’re taking a page from Fox News.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring notable stories by Bridget Read, Oscar Schwartz, Mosab Abu Toha, Sierra Bellows, and Stuart Heritage.
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S’more! S’more!
“His artisanal marshmallows were the greatest. Then he tried to scale them.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we’re highlighting stories from Tom Lamont, Charlotte Alter, Dženana Vucic, John Paul Scotto, and Devin Friedman.
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It’s Not Just You. LinkedIn Has Gotten Really Weird.
“No one really knows what it means to be ‘professional’ anymore.”