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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…
 • Eleanor Konik
📗 On Building a Vocabulary for Discussing Network Effects
A Review of The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen
 • Eleanor Konik
📚 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…
 • Eleanor Konik
📗 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…
 • Eleanor Konik
📚 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…
 • Eleanor Konik
📗 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.
 • Eleanor Konik
📚 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…
 • Eleanor Konik
📗 REVIEW: The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester
A history of precision enginering spanning the first machine-bored cannons to the reason ultra-flat planes are vital for space telescopes and jet…
 • Eleanor Konik
📚 Neat Stuff I Read Before January 2026
The plan for Manuscriptions in 2026, plus a bunch of neat articles about science, history, technology, and literature. Deep dives on pen cap…
📚 Neat Stuff I Read in December 2025
Famine-fighting wheat, hippopotamus schemes, pagan witchcraft historiography, Boox e-reader hacks, and mythbusting deep dives on asthma, colds, …
 • Eleanor Konik
🌪️ Do Crises Really "Reveal" Character?
Advice columnists — and fiction novelists — often claim that pressure exposes “who we really are,” but I'm not sure how relevant those crises really are…
 • Eleanor Konik
📚 Neat Stuff I Read in September 2025
Tips for self-improvement. Deep dives on how to do a deep dive, the infrastructure demands of tourist destinations, and useful experiments.
 • Eleanor Konik
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