Happy weekend! Some recent content links that I found interesting include Philip Coggan on what a Soros theory can tell us about the AI boom, the All-In Podcast’s wide ranging conversation with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Wired on how Taiwan made cashless payments cute, the response of Taiwan’s central bank to recent articles by The Economist about its currency policy, and Pico Iyer on why tapping into silence may be the best medicine you can give yourself. 

• FT: What a Soros theory can tell us about the AI boom.
• All-In Podcast: Scott Bessent on fixing the Fed, tariffs for national security and solving affordability in 2026.
• Wired: Taiwan’s digital payment infrastructure is tactile, decentralized, and completely distinct from China’s QR-code-dominated model.
• The Economist: Taiwan’s central bank responds to our articles about its currency policy.
• Horizon Kinetics: 2026 new year letter from our founders.
• BBC: Lego unveils tech-filled Smart Bricks – to play experts’ unease.
• Pico Iyer: Silence, the universal medicine.