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They Thought They Were Free
An excerpt from Milton Mayer's 1955 study of ordinary Germans under Nazism, including the famous passage about how gradu…
Things That Aren't Doing the Thing
A short, punchy essay listing all the ways we feel productive without actually starting the work, from planning and list…
Things You're Allowed to Do
A much-shared list of small, liberating permissions most people forget they have, from asking dumb questions to quitting…
This I Believe, by Robert A. Heinlein
A short, warm credo by the science fiction author on trust in neighbors, ordinary decency and the obvious things people…
Thought as a Technology
Michael Nielsen's essay on how interfaces change the way we think, with interactive examples and a meditation on compute…
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Art & Design
Three Colours: Red
Science writer Philip Ball explores the colour red through art history and chemistry, from ancient pigments to painters,…
Three Ways to Get Paid
A veteran financial journalist recalls what his father taught him about work and money, in a short and warm essay about…
Thrive in Obscurity
An encouraging essay on why creative mastery begins with years of silence and why you should keep publishing your work e…
To Force the Stumble into Freedom
An essay arguing that Schopenhauer's idea of beauty suspending the Will is undermined by social media, which industriali…
To the Senora on the First Floor
A literary letter to an elderly neighbor in a Mexico City apartment building, first noticed during an earthquake, from P…
touching computers
Spencer Chang on carrying his website around as a physical object, tangible computing and building little computing shri…
Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket
A short, kind essay by Oliver Burkeman on dropping the guilt of an ever-growing reading list and dipping into it as a fl…
Tropical Technologist
An essay by Chia on technology in the Philippines, from flooded computer shops and pisonet arcades to aircon, data cente…
TV's Best Drama You've Probably Never Heard Of
A passionate essay making the case for Halt and Catch Fire, the 1980s computing-industry drama that starts slow and grow…
Two Spaces After a Period: Why You Should Never, Ever Do It
Farhad Manjoo's famously blunt essay arguing that typing two spaces after a period is wrong, with the typographic histor…
Unexpected Things That Are People
An essay on the strange legal fact that rivers, ships, corporations and idols have all been treated as persons, explorin…
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Lifestyle & Health
Unnecessariat
A powerful, much-cited essay comparing the American opioid epidemic to the AIDS years and describing the people an econo…
unselfing.social
A short manifesto against the culture of self-celebration, calling on readers to make and share creative work about some…
Varieties of Dualism, Part Four: I am the master of my body
A philosophy essay on dualism arguing that believing the mind is separate from the body has physical and psychological c…
Vibe Physics: The AI Grad Student
A Harvard physicist guides Claude Opus 4.5 through a full quantum chromodynamics research project in two weeks, in a can…
Violent Enough to Stand Still
An essay asking why human societies changed so little over 300,000 years, weighing violence, cooperation and social stru…
We Are All Public Figures Now
Ella Dawson's sharp essay on how strangers become unwilling public figures overnight when someone live-tweets their live…
Weak Men Are Superweapons
Scott Alexander's classic essay on how attacking the weakest version of a group's ideas can quietly discredit the whole…
What Colour are your bits?
A classic essay by Matthew Skala on why computer science thinking fails to capture copyright law, explaining how the leg…
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