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📚 Neat Stuff I Read in April 2026

On "doing your own research" in the AI age, messy economics in fiction, & what funerals do to African households. Also: the airline wars…

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April 2026

🥘 The Konik Method for Making Delicious Food

Five recipes I cook pretty regularly, that don’t stress me out, that are reasonably healthy and maximally efficient. Also, tasty!

Apr 30 • Eleanor Konik

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🎓 How Organisms Rewrite Bodies Without Changing Genes

On phenotype plasticity, facultative neoteny, RNA editing, and metamorphosis, focused on locusts, maize, octopuses, dogs and holly trees respond to…

Apr 22 • Eleanor Konik

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💰 Some stuff I'm surprisingly happy I bought in 2025

Every year at tax time I go over the pervious year's purchases for things I can expense. This year, I'm sharing a list of the stuff I don't regret…

Apr 16 • Eleanor Konik

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📗 On Building a Vocabulary for Discussing Network Effects

A Review of The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen

Apr 8 • Eleanor Konik

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📚 Neat Stuff I Read in March 2026

On taxes, saving money, and how AI can expand the scope of your tasks. Also: merchant rulers, the history of the Caucus region, and the unique…

Apr 2 • Eleanor Konik

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March 2026

🌲 Dashboards are Useful, Actually (it surprised me too!)

Why I built two custom dashboards instead of using normal analytics and activity tabs, the difference between data you look at and data you use, plus a…

Mar 25 • Eleanor Konik

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🎓 On Geldings and the 'Natural' Social Order of Horses

The tension between natural horse behavior and the deeply embedded human modifications to horse society in pastoral regions.

Mar 18 • Eleanor Konik

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📗 REVIEW: Rise & Reign of Mammals by Steve Brusatte

A history of mammals, from the fall of the dinosaurs to the rise of the human. It's a love letter to teeth, & deserving of its bestseller status, tho…

Mar 11 • Eleanor Konik

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📚 Neat Stuff I Read in February 2026

Elephant bone tools, AI burnout, and why marrying well might be the best productivity hack. Also: spear-wielding lady chimps, the decline of starships…

Mar 4 • Eleanor Konik

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February 2026

🌲 Extract Value From the "Process" Layer of Your Notes

Glean's "context graph" framework for corporate information handling has really got me thinking about how to level up my personal knowledge management…

Feb 18 • Eleanor Konik

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📗 REVIEW: Coal by Barbara Freese

The black rock that bootstrapped modern civilization, from Roman jewelry to corrupt psuedo-govenments stamping out angry miners' 'terrorist' cells.

Feb 11 • Eleanor Konik

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