Reminder: Eleanor Konik's Feed Has Moved
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 🙃
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:
🎓 On Sacrifice: the real kind, with corpses
An investigation of historic rituals involving the killing of humans. Why is this even a thing?
🎓 Practical Religion: Ancient Rituals as ‘Vaccination’
Many religious rituals make practical sense. And the ancients had some pretty practical ways of handling plagues.
Next up is another reading roundup – micro-reviews of articles that give great recommendations for cognitive catalysts with ways to leverage lists and learning ;)