Courtesy John Chau

I was recently moved by the following five long reads and hope you are too:

• Death of a missionary (GQ): What an amazing, heartfelt, and tragic story by Doug Clark. “Instead of desiring posthumous Elliot-like fame, he preferred to be remembered as a fool.”
• Fascinating research on aging gracefully (The Atlantic)
• The dot-com don and the big business he makes (Medium)
• The man with the golden airline ticket (Narratively)
• WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera (Verge)
• Can chess survive artificial intelligence? (New Atlantis)
• The Amazon is not the Earth’s lungs (Atlantic)
• Is Tyshawn Jones to big for skateboarding? (NY Times)