Linkfest: May 07, 2018

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What I am reading today

The Gap Year (Trends... Find them, ride them and get off.)
Chinese-American Elites Lament a Brewing Trade War (Wired)


Learning from data-driven creative for Google Maps (afaqs!: Guest Articles)
Second coming (Views on Life & on Equity Investing)
The threat of secular stagnation has not gone away (Lawrence H. Summers)
Can We Guess Which Greek God You're Most Similar To? (History of the Ancient World)
Has Tencent lost its creative mojo? Essay sparks heated online debate in China (SCMP: China Tech)
Jamtara, where India is winning its war on cyber crime (FactorDaily)
Managing Risk and Daily trading (Subramoney)
Institutional Investor Voting Behavior: A Network Theory Perspective (Oxford Business Law Blog blog)

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