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Book Waste
An essay on the hidden waste of the publishing industry - pulped overstock, returns and remainders - and what it means t…
Brighter Than a Cloud
Claire L. Evans tries to describe the shimmering migraine aura called a scintillating scotoma, drawing on art, science a…
Buddhist Economics
E. F. Schumacher's classic essay arguing for an economics built around right livelihood and human wellbeing rather than…
Choose Boring Technology
A talk-turned-essay on why teams should spend a limited budget of innovation tokens wisely and pick well-understood tool…
Computers Cannot Make Decisions
A short essay unpacking the famous idea that a computer can never be held accountable and therefore must never make a ma…
Copying Is the Way Design Works
An essay on the space between riffing and ripping: how designers learn by copying, where inspiration ends and theft begi…
Critical Atlas of Internet
Louise Drulhe's illustrated research project exploring fifteen spatial metaphors of the internet to expose its social, p…
D&D is Anti-Medieval
An essay arguing that the original Dungeons & Dragons rules owe more to wargames, pulp fantasy and anachronism than to r…
Dan Wang's 2025 Letter
A sprawling annual letter on Silicon Valley versus the Chinese Communist Party, deep infrastructure, Stendhal, Pascal's…
Defetter
A long-form illustrated primer on information addiction, explaining how compulsive consumption of news and feeds works a…
Discworld Rules
An essay arguing that Terry Pratchett's Discworld is a healthier fantasy diet for technologists than Tolkien, and what e…
Don't Get Distracted
A thoughtful personal essay by a developer who took a job building software to kill people, and what that choice teaches…
D-squared Digest: The One-Minute MBA
A classic blog post by economist Daniel Davies on why good ideas do not need lies, built around a sharp, widely quoted o…
Dune as Plato's Republic Reimagined
A reader's essay on the last Dune novels, Heretics and Chapterhouse, arguing that they reimagine Plato's Republic and it…
Energy Makes Time
Mandy Brown argues that time is not the scarce resource we think it is: energy is, and the things that restore it make m…
Erewhon: The Book of the Machines
Samuel Butler's 1872 chapter imagining machines evolving past humanity, a startlingly prescient essay on technology and…
Everything Is Logarithms
A meandering math essay linking logarithms to unexpected places, from baseless logs to entropy and probability, with pla…
Executive Function Theft
An essay coining a name for the way other people's disorganization quietly drains your attention, planning and energy, w…
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Five Kinds of Friends
A sociologist's short essay splitting the word friend into five distinct kinds - allies, backstage intimates, fun friend…
Forever, watching Perseids
An interactive essay made for a Forgotten Games Jam in which the author talks about the Perseid meteor shower and a game…
Freedom of the Press Is Not the Same as Freedom of Speech
A philosopher's essay separating freedom of the press from freedom of speech, from a blog by an academic philosopher on…
Gaining Perspective Through Untranslatable Words
An illustrated essay exploring dozens of untranslatable words from around the world and the unique cultural perspectives…
Generation Junk
Walter Kirn's funny, sharp essay on why nothing he buys works anymore, starting from a seven-dollar vintage juicer that…
Getting Stuff Done by Not Being Mean to Yourself
An essay on why forcing yourself to do things backfires, and how kindness toward yourself can be a more sustainable way…
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