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Opinion | Technology Weakens Our Minds. It’s Time to Resist. - The Ne…

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Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression – The Creative Independent

BBC journalist and the documentarian behind HyperNormalisation, Adam Curtis, discusses art, individualism, power, myth, and the complications of self…

On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay from the Pages of Vogue

Joan Didion’s seminal 1961 Vogue essay on self-respect.

Why India is falling for expensive chocolate?

What’s Worrying Jonathan Haidt Now? - Cal Newport

Writes and Write-Nots

Ten maps to understand the occupied West Bank

EVs were meant to bypass oil. Now they’re stuck at the Strait of Hormuz

‘How to Live in this World’ | J. Krishnamurti

Russia Has Massed 500 Tanks For An Attack On Kupyansk. Thousands Of Ukrainian Drones Await Them.

Mitt Romney’s checks plan: up to $350 per month, per kid for parents

Seth’s Top 100

Why do we need to be right?

Pokémon Legends: Arceus Review

Jennifer Rudolph Walsh on Breaking the Busy Stigma, Finding Essentialness, and Transcending Bullshit | Goop

The Translator’s Funeral, a new short story by Rónán Hession

9 Questions Interesting People Ask to Cut Through the Small Talk

Katy: a short story by Bryan Washington

On writing better documents

Choosing Love: Scarlett Lewis on Overcoming Tragedy

An Astronaut's Guide to Mental Models

| J. Krishnamurti

¡A´hooo!, el grito de resistencia de Los cogelones, desde Neza

Forget the Iowa Fiasco. Trump Is the Democrats’ Real Problem.

American torture

Diamonds Aren’t Special and Neither Is Your Love

Is the "Death Drive" Real?

Better logging with Emoji

The 3-ladder system of social class in the U.S.

The Untold History of Facebook’s Most Controversial Growth Tool

Deliberate Anti-Productivity

Apple Privacy Chief: North Dakota Bill 'Threatens to Destroy the iPhone as You Know It'

How poetry can make us both laugh and think (providing added reasons to read it)

Seeing the Pentagon Papers in a New Light

Spotify Invents A New Way To Recommend Music—By Monitoring Your Speech

5 ways to support parents right now

11 Habits that changed my life (and will yours too)

Media that matters: Peter Walker talks Digital Media Art

Thunder in Her Head - The American Scholar