Manuscriptions

💰 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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📚 Neat Stuff I Read in January 2026

Tips for improving your AI-monitoring intuitions, intellectual endurance, and grasp of power-brokering institutions. Also: neat parasitic worms, a…

Feb 4 • Eleanor Konik

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January 2026

💎 Claude + Obsidian Got a Level Up

How to get the most out of Claude + Obsidian as somebody who is not a programmer or entrepreneur and is just trying to make life easier

Jan 22 • Eleanor Konik

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🎓 How Locusts Cause Famines and Shaped the Middle East

When there are too many grasshoppers, people starve. A look at Palestinian, Nebraskan, and East African locust swarms.

Jan 21 • Eleanor Konik

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