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June 2025
Knowledge Work Is Dying - Here’s What Comes Next by Joe Hudson [link] - “wisdom work” replacing “knowledge work” in the age of AI.
The many fallacies of ‘AI won’t take your job, but someone using AI will’ by Sangeet Paul Choudary [link]
What the humans like is responsiveness by Sasha Chapin [link]
21 observations from people watching by shani [link]
Umwelt Beyond Biology by Kennedy McDaniel Bae [link]
The fugu guide to jobs in a world of AI by Sangeet Paul Choudary [link]
Erotic Decisions by Tamara [link]
When Software Buys Software by Jeff Morris Jr. [link]
technofeudalism and the death of serendipity by Adam Aleksic [link]

May 2025
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April 2025
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March 2025
Your Political Compass [link]
Television and U.S. Fiction [link]
The Last Good Dad [link]
Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case [link]
Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born [link]
Of Nigeria And The Lack of Originality And Innovation [link]
Guest post: The Global IQ Debate: A Modest Contribution From A Resident African [link]
India doesn’t have a right wing [link]
40 Years On [link]
The Trauma Narrative [link]
I Never Wanted A Whore for a Daughter [link]
Why aren’t we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? [link]

February 2025
How to Make Superbabies [link]
On Rejecting Narrative Identity [link]
Claims AI can boost workplace diversity are ‘spurious and dangerous’, researchers argue [link]
College advice for people who are exactly like me [link]
School, Home: Are you being pushed forward, or perhaps, sideways? [link]
Finance, consulting and tech are gobbling up top students [link]
Advice - Patrick Collison [link]
Patronus [link]
Even artichokes have doubts [link]
Taste games [link]
Violence and the Sacred: College as an incubator fof Girardian terror [link]
career advice for CS grads [link]
The United States Doesn’t Have a Housing Crisis. It Has Three. [link]
Turning Off the TV in Your Mind [link]
passion can save me out of the matrix [link]
52 Odd Health Interventions That Work Instantly [link]
Restoring Sanity [link]
POV Disorder [link]
Not Everyone Wants To Be Promoted [link]
Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process, unfolding [link]
A History of the Future, 2025-2027 [link]
A History of the Future, 2027-2030 [link]
A History of the Future, 2030-2040 [link]
Why are authors doing this? [link]
By default, capital will matter more than ever after AGI [link]
Good conversations have lots of doorknobs [link]
Meditations on Moloch [link]

January 2025
The Man Who Reads 1,000 Articles a Day [link]
Greed Has Made Us Stupid [link]
How To Understand Things [link]
What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble’s Surprising Turnaround? [link]
Collecting open secrets [link]
America’s Real Elite Probelm [link]
The Cortisol Pyramid Scheme [link]
Notions from New York [link]
how to begin [link]
Some Painful Questions We Ask Ourselves [link]
Tits [link]
The Future of Work in Three Horizons [link]
Dostoevsky as lover [link]
How Onlyfans Took Over The World [link]
Departing the New York Times [link]
Fake thinking and real thinking [link]
How to like everything more [link]
The 8 Shapes of Stories [link]