Top Reads, Listens, Follows & Takeaways of the week

America and the Taliban

Takeaways:

PBS FRONTLINE is out with a new special titled America and the Taliban. Parts One and Two are available on YouTube. The documentary is a holistic reflection on our two decade war in Afghanistan. It’s the most powerful thing I’ve watched recently. I highly recommend it.

The documentary left me with a sense of outrage over our strategic incompetence that’s so clear in hindsight and hopeless that we as a nation will actually internalize the lessons that are so painfully evident.

Make some time this weekend to watch, and share it with a friend if it resonates with you. As the saying goes, if we fail to learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it.

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Reads: If you have trouble accessing some of these reads, try this

Forecasting Follies by Bob Seawright (here)

Value investing performance after valuation peaks by Jack Vogel (here)

What happened when Uber’s CEO started driving for Uber (here)

ProPublica - Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire (here)

“The Four Seasons in Riyadh is basically Palo Alto” (here)

The business of….death (here)

Listens: 

How I Built This: Boom Supersonic, reviving the dream of supersonic air travel (here)

Tom Joy, CIO at Church Commissioners, on Capital Allocators (here)

What is happening with the CHIPS Act? (here)

Follow, Watch & Other great content:

60 Minutes: Sportswashing in Saudi Arabia (here)