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🌲 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!
May 28
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Eleanor Konik
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🎓 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 happens when they stop.
May 20
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Eleanor Konik
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📗 Harpers Ferry during the Civil War
A deep dive on Harpers Ferry during the Civil War, from Brown's raid to the poor bastard stuck untangling the property ownership messes after the war.
May 14
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Eleanor Konik
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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…
May 7
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Eleanor Konik
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Eleanor Konik
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