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🎓 When Royal Marriages Keep Power Inside the Family
How the Egyptians and Ottomans bucked diplomatic marriage trends by marrying their sisters and slaves.
Jul 9
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Eleanor Konik
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June 2025
📚 Stoicism & the Cobra Effect in The Folding Knife by K. J. Parker
A spoilerific reflection on a book Patrick McKenzie called "the best low-fantasy public health writing you'll ever read."
Jun 25
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Eleanor Konik
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📚 Stoicism & the Cobra Effect in The Folding Knife by K. J. Parker
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🌲 The Fastest Way to Learn Depends on Circumstance
What desert engineering and Paul Atriedes can teach us about tacit knowlege.
Jun 18
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Eleanor Konik
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🏵️ What aloe, flax, & silica gel taught me about timing
On supply chains, spiders, and screwing up spaghetti sauce.
Jun 11
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Eleanor Konik
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🌲 Familiarity with the Western Canon is Surprisingly Reassuring
It's amazing how much modern conservative rhetoric sounds like Augustus and Chesterton.
Jun 4
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Eleanor Konik
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May 2025
🏵️ Daydreaming is Valuable & so are Classics
On the value of personalization, planning, pretend -- and giant tortoises.
May 28
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Eleanor Konik
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🏵️ Daydreaming is Valuable & so are Classics
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🏵️ Judgment > Generation, & a question about Roman swords
The spread of human technology & knowledge throughout history is a fascinating, perennially relevant topic.
May 21
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Eleanor Konik
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📚 Reading Roundup: Chunky Books
Micro reviews of longform stuff I read recently. Mostly fiction, some non.
May 16
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Eleanor Konik
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📚 Reading Roundup: Chunky Books
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🎓 Complaints about immodesty go way back
A discussion of sumptuary laws and clothing critiques, mostly focused on Greco-Roman and Crusader cultures.
May 9
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Eleanor Konik
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📚 Fear, War, & God: Post-Rationalist Philosophy... in SPAAAAAACE
A Review of the War Dogs Trilogy by Greg Bear
May 2
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Eleanor Konik
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📚 Fear, War, & God: Post-Rationalist Philosophy... in SPAAAAAACE
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April 2025
✈️ Field Notes from Florence
5 small joys -- they probably aren't what you think.
Apr 25
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Eleanor Konik
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🎓 Grafting & Growth: On Trees as Infrastructure
The cultural and ecological ingenuity of trees: from living bridges and clothing to natural air conditioners.
Apr 10
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Eleanor Konik
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🎓 Grafting & Growth: On Trees as Infrastructure
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