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worth reading: february 11-march 14, 2025
been hoarding these links like a dragon and it's time to release them
on emails:
on emails:
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“How to Professionally Say” by Akash Rajpurohit
- I don't even remember why I liked this one, but I think it's charming that it's just a big JSON library.
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“Good Sign Offs” by Meg Miller
- or, as Hungry Paul from Leonard and Hungry Paul would say, "you may wish to note the above." [crickets chirp in the distance]
design, maps, infrastructure:
- “Notes, 2025-02-16” by Spencer Wright
- “The hardest working font in Manhattan” by Marcin Wichary
- this one's incredible if you haven't already seen it!!
- “Reliability Compounds” by TW Lim
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“How Giant White Houses Took Over America” by Dan Kois
- this one linked to: “the hairshirt doldrums” by Kate Wagner, which is not about architecture but is also worth a read.
- lol just realized Dan Kois is also the legend behind "A Totally Normal Interview With Author Emily St. John Mandel"
- “Elizabeth Goodspeed on what happens when we treat the past like a stock library” by Elizabeth Goodspeed
politics / current events I guess:
- “Red Hats, Red Blood: Roleplaying The January 6 Insurrection In A Brooklyn Warehouse” by Rowan Zeoli
- “This is How We Fall Out of Love with the World” by Anne Helen Petersen
tech/AI:
- “My Machine and Me” by Greta Rainbow
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"The AI We Deserve" by Evgeny Morozov
- still working through the responses but this is a really good collection of authors.
animals and toys shaped like animals:
- “A visit to dog college” by Lauren Leffer
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“Who Killed the Footless Goose?” by Owen Long
- worth it for the photos alone.
- “How a Stuffed Animal Named Billy Possum Tried—and Failed—to Replace the Teddy Bear as America’s National Toy” by Howard Dorre
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“Caterpillar Roadshow” by Annie Rosenthal
- this one is amazing!! it's a podcast episode but you can find the transcript if you click around. highly highly recommended.
- “The Challenge of Deep-Sea Taxonomy” by Sarah Deweerdt
life and death:
- “When This Professor Got Cancer, He Didn’t Quit. He Taught a Class About It.” by Kate Selig
- "What do you do after you accidentally kill a child?" by Joshua St. Clair
catch-all category:
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“Patrick Mahomes Was In Hell” by Barry Petchesky
- this is sooo out of date but I still think the photos are funny.
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“I Wish This $56,000 Mattress Wasn’t So Incredible” by Caira Blackwell
- boggled my mind. men will come to your house and fluff your mattress for you?!
- “Extremely Petty and Incredibly Stupid Grudges” by David Mack
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“RETURNING TO THE UMAMI THEORY OF VALUE” by Nemesis.global
- this is kinda cool and interesting but why do all of these brand strategy people write like the Joker
- “And the 2025 Stunt Award Winners Are …” by Brandon Streussnig, Bilge Ebiri, and Roxana Hadadi
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The West Virginia Hot Dog Blog
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- “Will Shortz is Back in the Game” by Matthew Schneier