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...

• This week's top good news stories (Fix the News)

• DOGE - What Can Be Done? (No Mercy No Malice)

• Book Recommendation: The Demon of Unrest - Erik Larson

• Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis (Palladium)

• San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time (San Francisco Standard)

• Underestimate Elon at your peril. Only fools think Elon is incompetent; as an industrialist, Elon is unmatched by any American in the country’s entire history - Henry Ford, his closest competitor for the title, failed in the aerospace industry. (NoahOpinion)

• The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated (Civitas Institute)

• Why Gen Z Will Never Leave Home (Macleans.ca)

• Why I Stopped Caring About Enhancing Everyone’s Thinking: The natural selection of critical thinking and the Socratic paradox. (Psychology Today)

• Seth Rogen on 'The Studio,' Weed Company Houseplant, and Becoming a Hollywood Boss (Esquire)

• Our Government Is Experiencing a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly: Musk is moving fast and breaking important things (Paul Krugman)

• A flooded quarry, a mysterious millionaire and the dream of a new Atlantis (The Guardian)

• DOGE Slashes Health Care for Sick 9/11 First Responders (Rolling Stone)

• My Quest to Find the Owner of a Mysterious WWII Japanese Sword (Outside)

• Median U.S. Home Prices and Housing Affordability by State (Source: How Much)
  

What are you reading or listening to?