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Inside the Mirrortocracy
An incisive essay on how Silicon Valley hiring drifts toward mirroring existing employees, and how that quiet bias shape…
Is Everything Conscious?
An essay making the case for panpsychism as a compromise between physicalism and dualism, and explaining why the combina…
Is this a good book for me, now?
A short essay arguing that a book has no fixed objective value, only value to a particular person in a particular contex…
Librarians Are Dangerous
A short, warm public service announcement about why librarians are secretly the most powerful people in town, written in…
Lie still in bed
A short personal essay by Ognjen Regoje about the simple, restorative habit of lying still in bed and letting your thoug…
Life Is Not a Simulation but a Thought Experiment
An essay arguing that a computer simulation is not needed to explain our existence, and that logic alone is sufficient,…
LLMs on Turing Machine Architectures Cannot Be Conscious
An essay arguing that large language models running on Turing machine architectures cannot be conscious, drawing on phil…
Machines of Loving Grace
A moving personal essay on birth, the loss of a child and how technological interventions shape the experience of pregna…
Man or Muppet
An interactive essay on muppets and the author's trans life, mixing personal storytelling and humor with playful interac…
Martin Amis and the Changing of the Guard
A literary essay in Salmagundi revisiting Martin Amis from his 1983 debut in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists is…
Mathematics in the Library of Babel
An essay by mathematician Daniel Litt that uses Borges's Library of Babel to reflect on mathematics, what could be found…
Maybe you're not Actually Trying
An essay on selective agency in capable people, asking why talented people can act decisively in some areas and stay odd…
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Meaning Is Use: Wittgenstein on the Limits of Language
A clear, friendly essay explaining Wittgenstein's shift from the picture theory of language to the idea that meaning is…
Mental Models
A widely shared essay collecting and explaining a personal toolkit of mental models drawn from science, economics, and p…
My Graduation Speech by Neil Postman
Neil Postman's witty take on why graduation speeches are so bad, followed by the speech he would give, a short evergreen…
My website as a home
A personal essay on treating a website like a home rather than a portfolio, tracing how a spirograph experiment grew int…
Mythical Wealth-Creation Machines
An illustrated essay on legendary objects that magically produce riches, from the Finnish Sampo to cornucopias and magic…
Nonfiction Is Struggling. Publishers Are Making It Worse
A longform piece in The Walrus arguing that the book industry blames readers for falling nonfiction sales when its own d…
Notes on Buddhism
An essay on core Buddhist ideas, covering substance and self, impermanence, dissatisfaction, and the Four Noble Truths i…
On Beauty and the Death of African American Literature
An essay on Zadie Smith's novel On Beauty that asks whether African American literature is dying, examining Black petit…
On Craft
A personal essay by Cat Hicks that starts with a grandfather's slide guitar and reflects on what craft means and how car…
On Finishing Finnegans Wake
Gabrielle Carey reflects on the many years it took her reading group to finish Finnegans Wake, and what Joyce's impossib…
On Lacework
An artist explains watching an entire machine-learning video dataset of a million clips and turning it into Lacework, a…
on scrolling
A personal web essay about the compulsive act of scrolling, recommendation algorithms and enshittification, and wanting…
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