After reading this excellent Matthew Brooker column, put your smartphone down, delay getting your kid one as long as possible and live your life. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

🚨 Personal News 🚨 My new book SUPREMACY is being published this fall! It's a gripping tale of OpenAI and DeepMind’s battle to build powerful AI, the takeover by Big Tech, and what it means for humanity. You can dive in and preorder now: read.macmillan.com/lp/supremacy/

Good Peter Campbell Edward White piece on Geely. Imho its sprawling global empire is one of the most interesting stories in autos. ft.com/content/74713a…

A glimpse into the future maybe, fascinating >> Goodbye Paris, Berlin, Brussels -- hello Kiruna, Veldhoven, Dresden. Lionel Laurent makes the case for a new map of Europe bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

I wrote a lot of words about the transatlantic wealth divide, and not just for fans of the White Lotus. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

The Sahm rule, which is meant to act as an early diagnosis of a recession, is blinking red. But Claudia Sahm explains why her rule may not apply this time bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

Germany’s reputation for workaholism is taking a hit as a new generation discovers the joys of doing nothing at all. “Sorry, we’re not doing this any more.” wsj.com/lifestyle/work… via The Wall Street Journal

How did the US invent solar power and dominate it for 60 years, before giving it up to China over the past decade? The answer is, IMO, quite different to the stories we have told ourselves in recent years. And it has important lessons for the future.🧵 bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…