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worth reading: february 11-march 14, 2025
JJ
March 14, 2025
been hoarding these links like a dragon and it's time to release them
on emails:
“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.
“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
“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
"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
“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
“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:
“Patrick Mahomes Was In Hell”
by Barry Petchesky
this is sooo out of date but I still think the photos are funny.
“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
“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
The West Virginia Hot Dog Blog
:)
“Will Shortz is Back in the Game”
by Matthew Schneier
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