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Google Has Most of My Email
Benjamin Mako Hill explains why he runs his own mail server yet Google still holds most of his email, a classic essay on…
Grief Without an Afterlife
An essay on coping with death without belief in heaven, offering honest reflections and practical strategies for secular…
Hello From Your Friendly TV Translator
A subtitle translator's essay on the invisible craft of rendering jokes, slang and wordplay for TV screens, and why the…
Horses
A short, striking essay using the history of horses and engines to argue that technological progress looks steady right…
How Doctors Die
Ken Murray's widely shared essay on why physicians often choose less aggressive end-of-life care than their patients, an…
How Kerala Got Rich
An Aeon essay asking how Kerala went from one of India's poorest states fifty years ago to one of its richest, and what…
How New York Is Zoning Out the Human-Scale City
Roberta Brandes Gratz argues that New York's zoning rules favor big towers over the small-scale streets Jane Jacobs cham…
How to Deconstruct Almost Anything
Chip Morningstar's classic, very funny essay about a software engineer wandering into an academic conference on postmode…
How to Do Things If You're Not That Smart
A candid, encouraging essay for people who want to do important work but doubt their talent, with practical habits like…
How to Learn Better in the Digital Age
An essay arguing that podcasts, talks and blog posts give curious people the feeling of learning without the effort that…
How to Live on $432 a Month in America
A long essay on a cheap house on the northern plains and how a person could cover every living expense on a few hundred…
How to Make a Good Puzzle
An explorable essay by a game designer on what makes a puzzle satisfying, with playable examples that show the principle…
How to Make a Living as an Artist
A long, candid essay by the artist fnnch on how to earn a living from art, covering pricing, audiences, products and the…
How to Run a Small Social Network Site for Your Friends
Darius Kazemi's widely shared guide to running a small social network for friends, focused on community-building princip…
I Do Not Remember My Life and It's Fine
A personal essay on what reminiscing is like without mental imagery, exploring aphantasia, memory and how a mind without…
I Hate New Year's Day
Antonio Gramsci's short essay explaining why he hates New Year's Day and would rather make every morning a new year, rep…
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I Put a Toaster in the Dishwasher
A science teacher's playful and thoughtful post on why testing an absurd idea, like washing a toaster, teaches more abou…
I should have loved biology too
A personal essay on going from hating biology to being obsessed with it, and how great writing can make a subject come a…
I'd Rather Read the Prompt
A short, sharp essay arguing that when someone hands you machine-generated prose, you would rather see the prompt they t…
I'm a Philosopher Who Tries to See the Best in Others
A first-person piece by a USC philosopher on giving other people the benefit of the doubt, and on recognizing where char…
IMG_0416
A short, fascinating dive into the long-forgotten iPhone feature that sent photos to YouTube, and the odd digital artifa…
Immersive Quarries
An essay by Marie Foulston tracing why the 2010s were flooded with near-identical immersive Van Gogh projection shows, f…
In the Beginning Was the Command Line
Neal Stephenson's classic 1999 essay on operating systems, user interfaces and culture, comparing Windows, Mac, Linux an…
Infotopia
A philosophy paper arguing that a society becomes more just the more fairly intelligence is distributed across it, publi…
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