The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
An excellent blog post on why blog posts are best -> https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/
Explorations
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The Counterintuitive Way To Get Better At Anything via Barking Up The Wrong Tree
Love this -> https://bakadesuyo.com/2026/05/get-better-at-anything/
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Inflation but Only In Human to Human Services
I love a good chart. This chart shows two major economic trends. First, Baumol’s Effect which is the tendency for wages in jobs that have experienced little or no increase in labor productivity to rise in response to rising wages in other jobs that did experience high productivity growth.
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The Upper Middle Class Trap via Nick Maggiulli
I see this everywhere -> https://ofdollarsanddata.com/the-upper-middle-class-trap/
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The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls by Adam Bonica
This -> https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-looks-permanent-until-it
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40 Little Sayings That Have Held Up Over 40 Years
I’ve been around for a full 40 years now. I, like everyone on Earth, still have no real idea about…
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The Wonder of Modern Drywall by Yassine Meskhout
We take the modern world completely for granted -> https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-wonder-of-modern-drywall?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ_F90_8PNfpEYF00xv8NJPA
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Flannery O’Connor Predicts The Internet Troll
Flannery O’Connor had possibly the keenest eye for the characters we meet in life. This passage struck me as either ahead of its time…or just timeless.
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90% of everything is sanding e.g. laundry
This is so true -> https://interconnected.org/home/2026/02/06/sanding
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Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger and the Reading Unlock
Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger and the Reading Unlock -> https://www.readtrung.com/p/warren-buffett-and-the-reading-unlock
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What the actual science says about “brain rot”
I love the channel Howtown on YouTube. They do an excellent job wading through academic research on trendy topics. This piece on “Brain Rot” is especially apt for the 2020s.
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Where Do the Children Play? via eli Stark-Elster
The biggest misconception about American childhood -> https://unpublishablepapers.substack.com/p/where-do-the-children-play
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Why read novels? via Dynomight
Love this -> https://dynomight.net/novels/
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James Baldwin on America
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. -James Baldwin
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TIL about the Virtues in the Library of Congress
In the main hall of the Library of Congress, there are 8 virtues listed on the walls.
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Why Japanese companies do so many different things
Fascinating business case study -> https://davidoks.blog/p/why-japanese-companies-do-so-many
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You’re Lonely Because You Keep Your Options Open via Parlour
Very interesting take on committing to social events -> https://www.parlour.fm/issues/youre-lonely-because-you-keep-your-options-open
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The indie web has never had more options than it does now. Short form video & big platforms might be dominant, but I absolutely love all the options now.
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Use it up, Make it do, Wear it out
As seen in the National Museum of American History in the World War II exhibit. But also as heard many a time from my Grandma.
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Pew Research on What Makes People Proud of Their Country?
What makes people proud of their country? -> https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/02/17/what-makes-people-proud-of-their-country/
