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Why I Write

The New York Times

Website

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/05/archives/why-i-write-why-i-write.html?smid=url-share

Cities and Ambition

Paul Graham

Website

https://paulgraham.com/cities.html

The People Who Don’t Want You to Sleep

It's Not Us

Website

https://open.substack.com/pub/saraeckel/p/the-people-who-dont-want-you-to-sleep?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

literally just do things

crystal clear

Website

https://open.substack.com/pub/erifili/p/literally-just-do-things?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

A Dissenting Voice

Website

https://allenginsberg.org/2013/02/kill-your-darlings-a-dissenting-voice/

Privacy is so sexy.

SLADE9 Magazine

Website

https://open.substack.com/pub/sladenine/p/privacy-is-so-sexy?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Katharine Halls: AI is diluting literary translations

Al Majalla

Website

https://en.majalla.com/node/324489/culture-social-affairs/katharine-halls-ai-diluting-literary-translations

How Pop Culture Takes Over Our Brains

Byline

Website

https://www.bylinebyline.com/articles/how-pop-culture-takes-over-our-brains

For the archive yet to come

Africa’s a Country

Website

https://africasacountry.com/2025/02/for-the-archive-yet-to-come

For the archive yet to come

Cambridge Core

Website

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-international-studies/article/for-the-archive-yet-to-come/9C0F2EC00FB03F506CD4FB336475CEE1

ArtAsiaPacific: Dancing with All: The Ecology of Empathy

ArtAsiaPacific

Website

https://artasiapacific.com/shows/dancing-with-all-the-ecology-of-empathy

If you want to be creative, you can’t be certain

UX Collective

Website

https://uxdesign.cc/if-you-want-to-be-creative-you-cant-be-certain-a1d899e8b3f2

Being ugly will set you free

Paris Mwendwa

Website

https://parisgitobu.substack.com/p/being-ugly-will-set-you-free?utm_medium=ios

Fascinated to Presume

Zadie Smith

Website

https://classicsbookclub.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/zadie-smith-fascinated-to-presume-in-defense-of-fiction-nyrb-oct-24-2019.pdf

research as leisure activity

personal canon

Website

https://www.personalcanon.com/p/research-as-leisure-activity

Bibliotherapy: Can reading help treat your depression?

Dazed

Website

https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/65849/1/bibliotherapy-can-reading-help-treat-your-depression-anxiety-mental-health

‘The Menu’ ending explained

Entertainment Weekly

Website

https://ew.com/the-menu-ending-explained-8783965

A young man’s brain turned to glass

CNN

Website

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/science/vesuvius-brain-glass-study/index.html

We Finally Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Was So Durable

ScienceAlert

Website

https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-why-ancient-roman-concrete-was-so-durable

Humpback whales can’t swallow a human.

Animals

Website

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/most-whales-cant-really-swallow-a-human-heres-why

Jack the Ripper DNA

News Nation

Website

https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/jack-the-ripper-identity-revealed-dna/

Our Identities Are Rarely Consistent

A Mug of Insights

Website

https://amugofinsights.substack.com/p/our-identities-are-rarely-consistent

The Desperation of the Instagram Photo Dump

The New Yorker

Website

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-desperation-of-the-instagram-photo-dump

Is Western culture stopping people from growing up?

The Economist

Website

https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/08/16/is-western-culture-stopping-people-from-growing-up

Majorities of Muslims in Egypt and Pakistan support the death penalty for leaving Islam

The Washington Post

Website

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/01/64-percent-of-muslims-in-egypt-and-pakistan-support-the-death-penalty-for-leaving-islam/

What Does The Gray Tribe Believe?

Erik Torenberg

Website

https://eriktorenberg.substack.com/p/what-does-the-gray-tribe-want

Two product principles often forgotten

The Intercom Blog

Website

https://www.intercom.com/blog/two-product-principles-often-forgotten/

How Bob Proctor Changed the Way, I Thought About Thoughts.

Medium

Website

https://mo-issa.medium.com/how-bob-proctor-changed-the-way-i-thought-about-thoughts-4acdb713edf

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down

The Guardian

Website

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew-one-day-id-have-to-watch-powerful-men-burn-the-world-down-i-just-didnt-expect-them-to-be-such-losers

Why identity, morality and faith splinter in the multiverse

Aeon Magazine

Website

https://aeon.co/essays/why-identity-morality-and-faith-splinter-in-the-multiverse

Why does moral progress feel preachy

Aeon Magazine

Website

https://aeon.co/essays/why-does-moral-progress-feel-preachy-and-annoying

Monstrous Men

The Paris Review

Website

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/20/art-monstrous-men/

How Does the Male Gaze Impact Female Friendships?

Byline

Website

https://www.bylinebyline.com/articles/male-gaze-impact-female-friendships

Why Contemporary Women Artists Are Obsessed with the Grotesque

Artsy

Website

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-contemporary-women-artists-obsessed-grotesque

Taboos: Why are we repulsed yet seduced by the forbidden and unspeakable?

Big Think

Website

https://bigthink.com/thinking/taboos/

The Banality of Online Recommendation Culture

The New Yorker

Website

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-banality-of-online-recommendation-culture

Imagining the Future Is Just Another Form of Memory

The Atlantic

Website

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/10/imagining-the-future-is-just-another-form-of-memory/542832/

Fascism thrives on women’s self-doubt

Sisipho Mbuli

Website

https://substack.com/home/post/p-158423615

can intellectual intimacy replace physical desire?

milk fed

Website

https://caitlynrichardson.substack.com/p/can-intellectual-intimacy-replace

if you want good taste, fall in love

IN HOT PURSUIT OF PLEASURE

Website

https://open.substack.com/pub/hotpursuitofpleasure/p/if-you-want-good-taste-fall-in-love?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

is performance art outdated in a dystopia?

angelic dissent

Website

https://open.substack.com/pub/angelicdissent/p/is-performance-art-outdated?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

your perfectionism will not save you.

rent free.

Website

https://open.substack.com/pub/rentfreewithayan/p/your-perfectionism-will-not-save?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The case for using your brain — even if AI can think for you

Vox

Website

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/403100/ai-brain-effects-technology-phones

Learning to be a loser: a philosopher’s case for doing nothing

Psyche Magazine

Website

https://psyche.co/ideas/learning-to-be-a-loser-a-philosophers-case-for-doing-nothing

Making a Claim on Language

The Paris Review

Website

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/03/10/making-a-claim-on-language

Los zapatos y la economía de la muerte

Letras Libres

Website

https://letraslibres.com/politica/arroyo-zapatos-economia-muerte-jalisco/

Aposematism

ScienceDirect

Website

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780128096338208583

30 Useful Concepts

The Prism

Website

https://www.gurwinder.blog/p/30-useful-concepts-spring-2024?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Eve Babitz and Joan Didion may be dead.

The Guardian

Website

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/23/eve-babitz-joan-didion-feud

How the Ivy League Broke America

The Atlantic

Website

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/12/meritocracy-college-admissions-social-economic-segregation/680392/

Even if you beat me

The Dublin Review

Website

https://thedublinreview.com/article/even-if-you-beat-me/

Laziness Does Not Exist

Devon Price

Website

https://open.substack.com/pub/drdevonprice/p/laziness-does-not-exist?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The Authoritarian Endgame on Higher Education

The New York Times

Website

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/opinion/trump-research-cuts.html

The Elusive Green Consumer

Harvard Business Review

Website

https://hbr.org/2019/07/the-elusive-green-consumer

The Ultimate Productivity Hack is Saying No

James Clear

Website

https://jamesclear.com/saying-no

It’s Later Than You Think

The Curiosity Chronicle

Website

https://www.sahilbloom.com/newsletter/its-later-than-you-think

The 36 Questions That Lead to Love

The New York Times

Website

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/style/no-37-big-wedding-or-small.html

This is Water

David Foster

Website

https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/

Social Connection Makes a Better Brain

The Atlantic

Website

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/social-connection-makes-a-better-brain/280934/

What are you willing to do?

Threadings.

Website

https://www.threadings.io/what-are-you-willing-to-do-from-ismatu-fm/

Pro-progress will win when it wins women

Ruxandra''s Substack

Website

https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/pro-progress-will-win-when-it-wins?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

whose path are you on?

crystal clear

Website

https://open.substack.com/pub/erifili/p/whose-path-are-you-on?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The Nonchalance Epidemic: Why we’re so afraid of caring

The Daily of the University of Washington

Website

https://www.dailyuw.com/opinion/the-nonchalance-epidemic-why-we-re-so-afraid-of-caring/article_d5c33c42-e9b2-11ef-b9e5-fb98aa8f974a.html

A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox

Escaping Flatland

Website

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/search-query?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Death of Kammerer

Website

https://www.beatdom.com/the-death-of-david-kammerer/