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Reality has a surprising amount of detail
An essay on why the world is far more detailed than we assume, and what that means for learning.
21 Observations from People-Watching
A wedding painter shares 21 small, vivid observations about how strangers move, dress and behave in a room, written with…
A Constructive Look at TempleOS
A thoughtful essay examining Terry Davis's TempleOS on its technical merits and quirks, from a programmer who finds real…
A Few Rules For Predicting The Future
Octavia E. Butler's short essay on how she imagined the futures in her novels, with her rules for thinking about what co…
A partial list of Rome
A lyrical list-essay from Rebecca May Johnson's recipe diary, cataloguing bitter drinks, meals and small moments from a…
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A review of Julian Assange's favourite meme
Artist Chris Hayes reviews the wake-up-sheeple meme as if it were a gallery artwork, dissecting its composition, symboli…
A Time Before Algorithms Took Over the 90's Web
A nostalgic essay on the chaotic, personal 90s web of handmade homepages and creative oddities, and how far it feels fro…
A Troll avant la Lettre
A Dublin Review of Books essay on Louis-Ferdinand Celine and how he tried to manage his post-war reputation as a collabo…
Accountability Sinks
Martin Sustrik's essay on how institutions are designed so that nobody can be held responsible, and why that makes burea…
Advice That Actually Worked For Me
A thoughtful numbered list of practical life and work advice that held up in practice, covering energy, learning, readin…
Against Access
John Lee Clark, a DeafBlind poet, argues against the way access is usually handed to disabled people, in a sharp and fun…
AI as Simulacra
An essay that reads generative AI through Baudrillard's simulacra and hyperreality to explain why AI-made content feels…
AI Is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers
An essay arguing that leaning on AI coding assistants erodes core skills, told through the author's panic when Cursor we…
Alien Assumptions
A short essay arguing that our ideas about aliens smuggle in human assumptions about intelligence, communication and mot…
Alive Internet Theory
An essay by internet artist Spencer Chang arguing that bots will never win and celebrating tiny online spaces where peop…
Always Invite Anna
A short personal essay about the friends who always say no to invitations and why you should keep asking anyway, with a…
Apology - What Is Socrates Even Doing?
An essay reading Plato's Apology of Socrates as a defense of inquiry as a way of life, asking what Socrates thinks he is…
Arendt Speaks of Oases (In Praise of Oases)
An essay on Hannah Arendt's image of the oasis as a refuge that protects our self-understanding from the pressure to adj…
As Minerva's Owl Flies: The Dark Side of Hegel's Historicism
An essay in The Gadfly, an intercollegiate philosophy magazine, examining the darker implications of Hegel's historicism…
Augmenting Human Intellect
Douglas Engelbart's landmark 1962 report proposing computers as tools to boost human thinking, the vision behind the mou…
Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag
A playful essay on Denglisch and Berlinglish, the pseudo-English words Germans invent, and what these borrowed and bent…
Being Too Ambitious Is a Clever Form of Self-Sabotage
A reflective essay on how grand ambitions can quietly become an excuse never to start, and how doing small, real things…
Benchma(r)king
James Bridle builds a chair with his hands to probe how bodily intelligence differs from AI, in a long illustrated essay…
Black Triangles
Rampant Coyote explains the game developer idea of the black triangle, the unglamorous technical milestone that looks li…
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