Hey friends, this is just a casual reminder that if you're following along via RSS, I've moved all new posts to Substack.
Here's a link to the RSS feed, although if you subscribe directly via email it's a little easier for me to port your information over if I ever switch hosts again ๐
Here's what you may have missed!
A Reading Roundup on Intellectual Endurance and other interesting topics I read about while on maternity leave.
An essay with lots of takeaways on efficiency, passive learning, and optimization.
An analysis of the difficulty of being pithy when describing things, particularly when naming note titles, books, and publications.
7 "insights to prompt our writing" showcasing several "work in progress" essays and quotes from the longform articles that inspired them, aimed at showing how I go from "interesting quote" to "longform article."
And, of course, longform articles on nerdy history topics:
๐ On Sacrifice: the real kind, with corpses
๐ Practical Religion: Ancient Rituals as โVaccinationโ
Next up is another reading roundup โ micro-reviews of articles that give great recommendations for cognitive catalysts with ways to leverage lists and learning ;)