The Books Shaping Silicon Valley’s Worldview

Silicon Valley’s reading list, Japan’s plan to export its ‘cool,’ and the early but encouraging recovery of Syria’s food scene. 

From left: Zero to One, The Sovereign Individual, Seeing Like a State

Welcome to the weekend!

If you were hanging by a Wall Street water cooler yesterday, you might have heard rumblings of the “Mar-a-Lago Accord,” a grand bargain in which Donald Trump could ease US debt by forcing foreign creditors to swap their Treasuries into long-term bonds. Will it happen? Probably not. But the speculation is gaining steam.