Links Roundup - 12
On Fridays (usually) I post a selection of links to thought provoking pieces I have read during the week.
I had previously written about the difficulty of parting with familiar objects. This was an interesting piece in the same vein:
I’ve wondered what the effects of the pandemic have been on our buying patterns. Are we making more impulse purchases, or fewer? This is an interesting take on what we’re trying to achieve when we buy something, and how we can perhaps extract more meaning by buying less:
In case you missed it, Robinhood went public last week. Robinhood is the trading app that has fueled much of the mania around meme stocks such as GameStop and AMC. This piece makes a powerful argument for why its business model is destructive and exploitative.