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May 2026

🌲 How to Take Notes on Physical Library Books
Sometimes you have to read a physical book you can't write in. What then? Bullet Journal Pocket Editions to the rescue!
 • Eleanor Konik
🎓 Why Successful Empires Preserve Divisions Instead of Erasing Them
How empires from Assyria to the Soviets maintained local differences as a tool of control, and what happened when they stopped.
 • Eleanor Konik
📗 Harpers Ferry during the Civil War
A review of Six Years of Hell by Chester G. Hearn, which ranges from its founding to Brown's raid, to the poor bastard stuck untangling the property…
 • Eleanor Konik
📚 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…
 • Eleanor Konik

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!
 • Eleanor Konik
🎓 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…
 • Eleanor Konik
💰 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…
 • Eleanor Konik
📗 On Building a Vocabulary for Discussing Network Effects
A Review of The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen
 • Eleanor Konik
📚 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…
 • Eleanor Konik

March 2026

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