10 Weekend Reads - How tech billionaires are using money, bee sting saved my life, The Pentagon, True Story of Pretty Woman, and more

• Deconstructing ShadowStats. Why is it so Loved by its Followers but Scorned by Economists? (EconoMonitor)
• How tech billionaires are using money and data to solve for death (Washington Post)
  
• The Secret Sauce: How Buffalo Wild Wings Turned the Sports Bar Into a $1.5 Billion Juggernaut (Bloomberg)
  
• How Athletes Get Great: Just train for 10,000 hours, right? Not quite. Top-shelf athletic performance may be a more complicated formula than we’ve recently come to believe. (Outside)
  
• Satirized for Your Consumption (The Baffler)
  
• How a bee sting saved my life: poison as medicine (Mosaic)
  
• Inside the Kremlin’s hall of mirrors: Fake news stories. Doctored photographs. Staged TV clips. Armies of paid trolls. Has Putin’s Russia developed a new kind of information warfare – fought in the ‘psychosphere’ rather than on the battlefield? Or is it all just a giant bluff? (The Guardian)
  
• The Pentagon’s $10-billion bet gone bad (LA Times)
  
• How To Be Alone: Musicians Confront Solitude (NPR)
  
• The True Story of Pretty Woman’s Original Dark Ending (Vanity Fair)

What are you reading?