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...

• How to invest your enormous inheritance: What do you stand to inherit? It still feels like a question from a different age, despite its growing importance today. In 2025 people across the rich world will inherit some $6trn, or around 10% of GDP - a figure that has climbed sharply in recent decades. (The Economist via Elm)

• Free-market economics is working surprisingly well: Which economic approach works depends a lot on where you start from. (Noahpinion)

• Nearly 75% of all restaurant traffic now happens off-premises - meaning that almost 3 out of 4 restaurant orders are taken to go. (PR Newswire)

• The Real Problem With Bluesky: The platform has more users than ever. So why does it feel so empty? (Slate)

• Nobody has a Personality Anymore (TFP)

• Behind the scenes of the world’s largest private label brand (Thanks JB for the submission) (WSJ)

• How Far Will AI Video Go? Mapping Out the Scenarios (The Mediator)

• The Geological Sublime: Butterflies, deep time, and climate change. (Harper’s Magazine)

• From the Glass King to QAnon: A long time ago, a French king believed he was made out of glass. Here’s his story, why it matters—and how it can help us understand modern delusions such as QAnon or insane anti-vax theories. (The Garden of the Forking Paths)

• The French liar: René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him? (Aeon)

• Trump quietly claimed a power even King George wasn’t allowed to have: A truly scary new revelation about Trump’s effort to circumvent the TikTok ban. (Vox)

• Galloway: ICE Age. President Trump is no longer fighting inflation, China, or AI. Instead, he’s declared war on a manufactured threat: the “enemy within” — immigrants, journalists, and professors. (No Mercy / No Malice)

• The Biggest-Ever Digital Camera Is This Cosmologist’s Magnum Opus (Quanta)

• The Weird and Lovely Surge of US Productivity Growth (Source: Conversable Economist)
  
   

What are you reading or listening to?