What I read this week...

Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid (The Atlantic)

YouTube and TikTok creators are tearing up Netflix’s streaming rulebook (The Information)

Andreessen Horowitz went all in on crypto at the worst possible time (WSJ)

Twitter is losing its most active users, internal documents show (Reuters)

Welcome to hell, Elon (The Verge)

OpenAI leads Descript financing at $500M+ valuation (The Information)

Big banks and U.N. green finance group clash in alliance (WSJ)

The climate economy is about to explode (The Atlantic)

What people get wrong about the Inflation Reduction Act (SEIA)

Inside the secret prisoner swap that splintered the U.S. and China (WSJ)

The end of the system of the world (Noahpinion)

San Francisco reconsiders business ban that targets states’ social values (WSJ)