What the sun brings, the disruption nexus and more in this week’s #TheEdit.

• Eight transforming summer reads. New Yorker writers on books that changed their lives – New Yorker
• A hotter world is a negative-sum game. New opportunities are dwarfed by the enormous cost of rising temperatures – Financial Times
• Inflation’s wild ride. Inflation has surged and moderated since the pandemic. How did we get here? – The New York Times
• The disruption nexus. Polycrisis. Metacrisis. Omnicrisis. Permacrisis. Call it what you like. The question remains whether  humanity will successfully rise to such challenges and bend rather than break with the winds of change – Aeon
• You might be a late bloomer. The life secrets of those who flailed early but succeeded by old age, by David Brooks – The Atlantic
• Three exercises to boost your emotional intelligence. It’s worthwhile to hone our emotional intelligence skills that help us handle negative feelings – Harvard Business Review
• What is meaningful work? A philosopher’s view on what gives a task meaning – The Beautiful Truth