This week’s reading, listening and watching (ending June 30 2024)

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Reading

• Lunch with the FT — Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk (Financial Times): The author of “The body keeps the score” on trauma and its impact on our society
• My digital business model (Sam Harris’ Substack): Sam Harris describes his extraordinary business model
• Why the Biden-Trump Debate May Boost RFK Jr. (Time): RFK Jr is increasingly on the radar of mainstream publications

Listening

• Making Sense (George Saunders): The Man Booker Prize winner on his writing process and his buddhist influence
• Conversations with Tyler (Joseph Stiglitz): The Nobel Memorial Prize Winner on a variety of topics
• All In Podcast: Presidential debate aftermath and Open AI for-profit conversion

SB’s Tune of the Week

🎵 Way it goes — Hippo Campus

SB’s Most Read Post of the Week

🏆 Overcoming a blank page

Osman Hamdi Bey’s “Der Wunderbrunnen (Lesender Araber)” (1904)