Manuscriptions

🎓 When Perseverance Gets People Pointlessly Killed

On Naval Press Gangs, HMS Wager, and Knowing When to Quit

Oct 23 • 

Eleanor Konik

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🎓 Neat Stuff I Saw in Harper's Ferry, WV

A brief review of my favorite place in the whole world.

Oct 19 • 

Eleanor Konik

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📚 Neat Stuff I Read in September 2025

Tips for self-improvement. Deep dives on how to do a deep dive, the infrastructure demands of tourist destinations, and useful experiments.

Oct 8 • 

Eleanor Konik

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🌲 The Konik Method for Organizing Electronic Notes

An update to the award-winning 2022-era Konik Method for Making Useful Notes, now that AI can do the grunt work for us.

Oct 1 • 

Eleanor Konik

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September 2025

📚 REVIEW: Civilizations of Africa, A History to 1800

A look at early African government, religion & economy. Fans (and critics) of James C. Scott or David Graeber should really read this book. So should…

Sep 17 • 

Eleanor Konik

10

6

🏵️ On Learning About Cultures From Stories

On stone gods, internet monsters, and the cultural practices that aren't quite what we think when we think of religion... but aren't exactly not…

Sep 14 • 

Eleanor Konik

6

1

🌲 The Konik Method for Making Analog Notes

Life is tradeoffs. Analog notes last longer but aren't as searchable. They are, however, useful, beautiful, and less distracting to create.

Sep 3 • 

Eleanor Konik

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August 2025

📚 Neat Stuff I Read, August 2025 Edition

Tips for taking notes. Deep dives on obscure infrastructure, color theory, and language acquisition. Lessons from history to help everyone feel a bit…

Aug 29 • 

Eleanor Konik

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📚 REVIEW: Empress of the East by Leslie Peirce

A great biography describing how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire and changed it forever.

Aug 20 • 

Eleanor Konik

9

2

🏵️ Improvements come with tradeoffs

Relating AI hallucinations, medieval copywriting errors, and the impacts of radiation on the human genome. Plus, some great book recommendations!

Aug 13 • 

Eleanor Konik

9

1

🏵️ On Class, Corruption, & Fire

A review of The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. Plus, the dark underbelly of American poverty, and how control of fire is useful to man and birds…

Aug 6 • 

Eleanor Konik

10

4

July 2025

💎 How Claude + Obsidian + MCP Solved My Organizational Problems

I thought they were just a gimmick, but MCP Servers are unusually reliable — and useful — compared to most AI tools I've tried.

Jul 16 • 

Eleanor Konik

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