TouchStone Reads - June 19th, 2026

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... 

• Predicting AI job exposure (Benedict Evans)
• Common MythConceptions (Information is Beautiful)
• A Minimum Wage Natural Experiment Has Been Running for Over a Decade: When 30 States Raised Minimum Wages, What Happened to Pay and Jobs? (Arin’s Substack)
• For the first time, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas worldwide in April 2026 (Ember)
• This group just built affordable housing in SF for half the price and twice as fast (San Francisco Standard)
• L’Affaire Siloxane How antiperspirant fumes nearly got NASA to evacuate the space station (Mars For The Rest of Us)
• Iran Is a Bigger Defeat Than Vietnam: FP makes the strategic case that Iran is a worse strategic loss than Vietnam (Foreign Policy)
• Canada's Cultural Mosaic - FIFA version! (Our World in Data)
• How to Earn a Billion Dollars (Paul Graham)
• The Tiny Solar Panel That Could but likely won't Change North America (The Brussels Times)
• Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself. A small but profound rewrite of the origin story. At first, scientists thought Earth’s water came from comets. (Quanta Magazine)
• Comparing today’s temperature against historical averages (FlowingData)
• What could Canada do to encourage these founders to build at home/not leave post University? (Source: Build Canada)
  
  

What are you reading or listening to?