We often set aside articles that are longer, deserve a re-read, are broader in scope…or just for fun — for weekend reading. Below are some from this week — pour yourself a hot cup of coffee & enjoy...

• Ozempic: Silver Bullet or Devil’s Bargain? (Apple Podcasts)

• How I think about Debt (Collab Fund)

• The Most Important Skill of the Future is Being ‘Indistractable’ (Nir and Far)

• The Godfather of American Comedy: The funniest people on the planet think there’s no funnier person than Albert Brooks (The Atlantic)

• The number of kids who read for pleasure falls off a cliff in the third and fourth grades, and the phenomenon is called “decline by nine.” (Slate)

• Is artificial intelligence the great filter that makes advanced technical civilisations rare in the universe? (Science Direct)

• How Far Trump Would Go (Time)

• Lose the News (The Big Picture)

• The Sci-Fi Writer Who Invented Conspiracy Theory: It all goes back to one man in the 1950s: a military-intelligence expert in psychological warfare (The Atlantic)

• Cigna saves millions of dollars by having its doctors reject their patients’ claims: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers.”  (ProPublica)

• The problem isn’t that life is unfair – it’s your broken idea of fairness (Oliver Emberton)

• WHERE DID ALL THE STOCKS GO? The number of public companies has fallen fast (Sherwood)

What are you reading or listening to?