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1 • Inbox – AbeBooks Sales Order No. 710847506: Tracking Information Added | Fastmail
17 Thoughts on Europe
26 Useful Concepts for 2026
50 Things I Know
A Dirty Dish by the Sink Can Be a Big Marriage Problem - The Atlantic
A Grand Unified Theory of Buying Stuff
A Grand Unified Theory of Buying Stuff | WIRED
A Long Defeat, a Final Victory
A Peaceable Faith
A Short History of Body Copy Sizes on the Web
A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions | The New Yorker
A World-Historical Upgrade
Adulthood in the Zone
Against Stories
Aimee Bender on Writing Without a Plan ‹ Literary Hub
Alan Jacobs
Alexander Chee on Staying Organized While Writing ‹ Literary Hub
Amulets Against the Spirits of the Age
An America of Secrets
An Interview With Sarah Fay
An (X) Story
Antivirals - by L. M. Sacasas - The Convivial Society
Are There Alternating Cycles of Hot and Cool in American Cultural History?
Are There Alternating Cycles of Hot and Cool in American Cultural History?
Are We Living Through an Apocalypse Now?
At the edge of my map - Austin Kleon
Becoming a Vampire
Being a Very Online Advice-Giver Has Made My Writing Worse
Between Chaos and the Man
Beyond Churchianity - Trellis Magazine
Blame Rich, Overeducated Elites as Our Society Frays
Book Review: A Square Meal – Part I: Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
Book Review: A Square Meal – Part II: Politics
Buncombe
C. Thi Nguyen on Why Measuring Everything Ruins Everything
Can You Solve a Lifestyle Epidemic Without Lifestyle Gurus?
Capitalism’s Favorite Drug
Car Trouble
Child of Evangelism
Circumlocution
Comfortably Numb America
Comics as Air
Common Worlds, Common Sense, and the Digital Realm
Computer Control
Confessions of a Bookanizer
Confronting the Technological Society
Contemplation as Rebellion
Control and Correlation – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
Control Theory -- Or Proof of a System Is What It Does
Covid Was Liberalism’s Endgame
David Foster Wallace Said I Spoke to Him Like He Was a Dog
Deep Reading Will Save Your Soul
Denizens of Concord by Mark Bauerlein | Articles | First Things
Derek Thompson on the Anti-Social Century
Does Opinion Have a Point?
Don't Let the Vampire In
Down The River - by Paul Kingsnorth - The Abbey of Misrule
Emerson Didn’t Practice the Self-Reliance He Preached
[Essay] the Third Force, by Garret Keizer : Harper's Magazine
Everyone Gets to Where They Are Going
Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time | Psychology | The Guardian
Everyone Knows
Everyone Thinks They’re Right About Masks
Everything I Read in October 2024
Experimental Theology: The World is Full of Magic Things
Experimental Theology: What Mattered Most at Home
Family Feuds
Family Matters
Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction | Zadie Smith | The New York Review of Books
Finding Nourishment vs. Identifying Poison
For Iris Murdoch, morality is not about duties and rules but stopping our ego fantasies and attending to others with love
Fredkin's Paradox Explains Why You Waste Time on Meaningless Decisions
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life (1500 to the Present)
From Outer Space to Inner Space
Fwd: The Face Stares Back
Get started with easy, evergreen notes for personal knowledge management (PKM) | by Austin Govella | Medium
Go for a Walk
Groups Never Admit Failure
Guide to the classics: Michel de Montaigne's Essays
Helen Lewis on the Genius Myth
Here Come the Allodidacts
Here’s One Simple Tip for Faster, Safer Winter Driving
Heresy
Hiding Your Hand
Hotter and Hotter | the New Yorker
How America Became “A City Upon a Hill”
How Apocalyptic Is Now?
How Art Lost Its Way
How Art Lost Its Way
How I Became the Honest Broker
How Stewart Made Tucker
How Substack Changed My Reading
How Tech Despair Can Set You Free
How to Be a Story
How to Read Self-Help
How to Sell Good Ideas
How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt From Henry James
‘I Believe in Love’: Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Final Year, in Her Own Words
I Deleted My Second Brain
I guess the first place the start exploring why good people need Jesus is with this question: Are there any good people?
I Know What You Think of Me
If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
If You're Bound to Be Bad, Why Bother Being Good?
I'm Recommending These 12 New Recordings
In Defense of Prejudice, Sort Of
In the Desert of the Real - by Paul Kingsnorth
In the Kingdom of the Bored, the One-Armed Bandit Is King
Invest in your future self: How to look after your ageing mind
Is Society Coming Apart?
It is not Intended
It’s All Over
It's Worse Than You Think
John Brown’s Body | The New Yorker
Jon Ronson and Adam Curtis on the culture wars: ‘How has this happened? Where is the escape hatch?’
Jon Ronson in Conversation With Adam Curtis
José Ortega Y Gasset's Revolt of the Masses
Justification and Judgment Day
Kevin Mitchell on Free Will
Kill All The Heroes - by Paul Kingsnorth
Kingdom of God and missional church: not as difficult to define as you might think | P.OST
K×K³, the Selfie Pathology, Our Leader McPhee
Labors of Love — Real Life
Last Boys at the Beginning of History
Lauren Southern: how my tradlife turned toxic
Legend of Hayao Miyazaki
Lenore Skenazy on Rejecting Helicopter Parenting
Living in Expectation of the Unexpected Gift
Los Angeles Review of Books
Los Angeles Review of Books
Love as Attention
Luxury Surveillance
Making a Difference
making a difference – Snakes and Ladders
Making Your Story a Page Turner – Part 2
Malcolm Gladwell and the Shape of American Public Intellectual Life
Mary+Harrington+Soul+Trader+Identity+in+a+Digital+Age
Message Boards! (Free)masonry! Magical Friendship!
Method and Madness
Modern marketing and hustle | Seth's Blog
Modernity’s Self-Destruct Button
More People Should Write
Motte and Bailey and Coronavirus
Mr Jones Is a Lesson in the Dangers of Groupthink
Multitasking Isn't Progress—It's What Wild Animals Do for Survival
My 92-Year-Old Father Didn’t Need More Medical Care
Narrative Collapse
Nathaniel Hawthorne on How to Look and Really See
Near-Coincidences: Digression and the Literature of the Age of the Internet
No, Coronavirus Is Not the Apocalypse; It Could Be Worse Than That
No, I Will Not Debate You
No News Is Good News - by Thomas J Bevan - The Commonplace
Notes From the Metaverse
Notes of a Supply Officer
Nutrient Density and Other Stupid Magic Words
Of Chancers and Last-Chancers
On Being a Good Newsletterer
On Boring Problems
On Mothers and Political Violence
On Not Being a Cubicle Monkey
On Online Collaboration and Our Obligations as Makers of Software
On Praying With Your Feet
On Resembling the Angel of History
Open Wallets, Empty Hearts
Opinion | Come With Me if You Want to Survive an Age of Extinction - The New York Times
Opinion | It’s Time to Stop Living the American Scam - The New York Times
Opinion | The Cost of Paying Attention - The New York Times
Opinion | The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind - The New York Times
Outsourcing Virtue
Parking Brake Adjustment
Part 2: The Door Has Opened
Pascal's Pensées: Week 33, Harming the Will
Pastures of the Mind
Patience
Pluralistic: 06 Apr 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: 08 Jul 2022
Pluralistic: MLMs Are the Mirror-World Version of Community Organizing
Pluralistic: With Great Power Came No Responsibility
Population v. Electricity
Productivity
Prufrock: In defense of pessimism
Prufrock : June 4, 2020
Questions About the Current Pandemic From the Point of View of Ivan Illich — davidcayley.com
Quico Toro on Charlatans
Reality Is Just a Game Now
René Girard XXI: Shame
Rest in Peace, Gaby Charing
Return of the Oppressed
Rorty’s Bastard Children
Sarah Bakewell's at the Existentialist Cafe
Saturn's Children - by Paul Kingsnorth
Simone Weil’s Radical Conception of Attention
Sixteen and Evangelical
Snakes and Ladders
Snakes and Ladders – More lighting of candles, less cursing the darkness
Snakes and Ladders
Specifically, in
Stepping stones in possibility space - by Gordon Brander
Stepping stones in possibility space - by Gordon Brander
Steve Bannon and the Politics of Bullshit - by Damon Linker
‘Success Means I Get to Do It Again Tomorrow’
Surface Tension
Surviving the Show: The Case for an Askesis of Perception
Ten Things the Church Can Learn About Missions From a Narrative-Historical Perspective
Teresa Bejan on Virtue
The Age of Average
The Agency Crisis
The Anthropic Hive Mind
The Antidote to Civilisational Collapse
The Birth and Death of the Office | History Today
The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt?
The Collapse Of American Teaching
The Corruption of the Best: On Ivan Illich - American Affairs Journal
The Curse of Austin - by Jason Stanford - The Experiment
The death of literature - UnHerd
The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
The Disenchantment of Salvation: Part 2, From Ontology to Consequence
The Egregore to Baptism Pipeline
The Eight Questions You Must Answer
The Enchanted Imagination: Part 4, the Value to Fact Shift
The Enclosure of the Human Psyche
The End of Monoculture
The Future of Literature Belongs to Amateurs
The Good Guy Always Wins. Because He's So Good. That's Why He Wins.
The Gospel & COVID-19: Part 4, the Judgment of God
The Great Bifurcation
The Green Revolution Is a Warning, Not a Blueprint for Feeding a Hungry Planet
The Historian's Craft
The Idea You Have
The Imperative to Virtue Gap
The Imperfectionist: Seventy Per Cent
The Imperfectionist: The Freewriting Way of Life
The Imperfectionist: You Have to Do the Living Yourself
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
The Jellyfish Tribe - by Paul Kingsnorth
The Joy of Blackouts; AI Ruins College; The Consciousness Wars Continue; Peter Singer’s Chatbot Betrays Him, & More
The Last of the Hedgehogs
The Lost Thread
The lurkers
The lurkers | Seth's Blog
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Meaning of Sex: Part 2, the Purification of Love
The Memex Method. When your commonplace book is a public… | by Cory Doctorow | Medium
The Meta-Positioning Habit of Mind - by L. M. Sacasas
The Middle-Aged Millennial
The Mind in the Wheel – Prologue: Everybody Wants a Rock
The Mind Map of Media Ecology
The Miserable Lives of Cyborg Truck Drivers
The Moses Option
The Myth of the Machine - by L. M. Sacasas
The New Control Society
The Old Imperium, by John Crowley
The Omega-6 Apocalypse
The Perils of Audience Capture
The Perils of “Survivorship Bias”
The Point Magazine
The Problem With Note-Taking
The Prodigal Techbro
The Prognosis
the recent report released concerning sexual abuse within the Southern Baptist Convention
The Referendum
The Reverse Golden Rule
The Secret History of the Suburbs
The Single Biggest Way to Reduce Your Impact on Planet Earth…
The Single Reason Why People Can’t Write, According to a Harvard Psychologist
‘The Socratic Method’ Review: Let Us Reason Together - WSJ
The State and the People
The Strange Disappearance of Cooperation in America
The Subprime AI Crisis
The Theft of the Commons | The New Yorker
The things you can’t see | Seth's Blog
The Thinker Who Believed in Doing
The Unbearable Beta-Ness of Internet Patriarchy
The Unbearable Lightness of Cringe
The West Has Lost Its Virtue
The World According to LARP
There but for the Grace of Time Go I
This Is (Almost) 67: Brian Morton Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
This Is Boston Not Honolulu
This Is How We Can Beat the Coronavirus
Thoreau in Good Faith
Three Angles on Erik Hoel’s Aristocratic Tutoring – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It | The New Yorker
Today’s Creator Economy Was Built on Subscribers and Patrons. What Comes Next?
Too Many Jobs Feel Meaningless Because They Are
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Trying to make the world a luckier place seems like...
Two Quotations on Economics
Unboring and Easy to Get Guide to Deliberate Practice Theory
Useful
Visa, Plaid, Networks, and Jobs
We Are Repaganizing
We Get What the Business Model Wants
We Learn Ourselves Through Living
We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It
Welcome to the Essay Meta
What a Single Metric Tells Us About the Pandemic
What Became of Atheism, Part One: Wearing the Uniform
What did it mean to be the “fragrant aroma of Christ”? | P.OST
What I Learned From My New AI Friend
What Is the Gospel?: Part 1, the Gospel Is Not a Technology
What Is the Value of a Knowledge Worker?
What Marcel Proust Really Said about Seeing with New Eyes – Clearing Customs
What Progress Wants - by Paul Kingsnorth
What the Murder of the UnitedHealthcare C.E.O. Means to America | The New Yorker
What Was the Fact?
What You Shouldn't Write
What’s the Point of Parler?
Where the Wild Things Aren’t
Which brings me to a point about metaphysics.
Why Aren't More Highly Intelligent People Rich? A Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Says Another Factor Matters a Lot More
Why Being Anti-Science Is Now Part Of Many Rural Americans’ Identity | FiveThirtyEight
Why Christopher Alexander Still Matters
Why Elisabeth Elliot Changed Her Beliefs About Finding God’s Will
Why God Matters
Why Gregory Bateson Matters
Why I Am a Jain
Why I Hope to Die at 75
Why Lenin Won
Why Liberals Should Read Smart Conservatives
Why the Emerging Church Movement Failed
Why the Left Keeps Losing
Why the Simple Life Is Not Just Beautiful, It’s Necessary
Why Wait to Die?
Why We Stopped Trusting Elites
Why You Should Feel Good About Liberalism
William F. Buckley’s Bill Never Came Due
William Galston on 2024 and Trump's Conviction
Words, Words, Words
Works for Me
Writing essays by formula teaches students how to not think | Aeon Essays
Writing for outlets isn't worth it anymore - by Erik Hoel
You Have to Be Human
Your Attention Is Not a Resource
Your Real Biological Clock Is You’re Going to Die – Hmm Daily
You're Backing Up for the Wrong Disaster
Books
10% Happier
100 Years of Pragmatism
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
A Plea for Captain John Brown Read to the Citizens of Concord, Massachusetts on Sunday Evening, October Thirtieth, Eighteen Fifty-Nine
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Advice Not Given
After Buddhism
After You Believe
Albion's Seed
Already Free
American Philosophy
American Studies
An End to Suffering
Another Now
Another Turn of the Crank
Anything You Want
At Seventy
Becoming Elisabeth Elliot
Being Church
Being Elisabeth Elliot
Being Mortal
Bette & Joan
Better Than Before
Beyond Economics and Ecology
Bird by Bird
Chokepoint Capitalism
Colorado Campgrounds
Deschooling Society
Die Wise
Discovering Girard
Dismissing Jesus
Dominion
Elisabeth Elliot
Endangered Gospel
Essays - First Series
Essays in Idleness
Excursions
Explaining Hitler
Extravagant Grace
Facing Unpleasant Facts
Finding Church
First We Read, Then We Write
Four Thousand Weeks
Getting Love Right
Glittering Vices
God in the Rainforest
Going Clear
Growing Local Missionaries
Hell and Heaven in Narrative Perspective
Henry David Thoreau
Henry James
How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in 5 Months!
How (Not) to Be Secular
How to Do Nothing
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
How to Live
How to Read Montaigne
How to Take Smart Notes
How to Think
I Told Me So
Infinite Tuesday
Into the Silent Land
Ivan Illich
Jacques Ellul
Late Antiquity
Life at the Bottom
Living in Christ's Presence
Losing Ourselves
Lost in Thought
Making Room
Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
Meditations for Mortals
Mindfulness
Montaigne
Morning After the Revolution
New Yorker Article on Blindess
Not the Way It's Supposed to Be
On Bullshit
On Freedom, Love, and Power
On Kindness
Patriotic Gore
Payback
Post-Christendom
Presence in the Modern World
Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are
Reclaiming Conversation
Renovation of the Heart
Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Room of Marvels
Seven Marks of a New Testament Church
Several Short Sentences About Writing
Shantung Compound
Sherry Turkle
Shop Class as Soulcraft
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds
Silence
So, Anyway...
Society in America
Stone Age Economics
Superbloom
The Abolition of Man
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Art of Living
The Art of Loading Brush
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
The Complete Essays
The Craving Mind
The Crime of Sheila McGough
The E-Myth Revisited
The Fall of the House of Dixie
The Gervais Principle
The Hedgehog and the Fox
The Inner Experience
The Land of Stories
The Longing for Less
The Lost Art of Dying
The Maelstrom
The Master and His Emissary
The Meditator's Dilemma
The Metaphysical Club
The Minutemen and Their World
The Miracle of Mindfulness
The Naked Anabaptist
The Origin of Capitalism
The Orthodox Heretic
The Power of Habit
The Practicing Stoic
The Pursuit of God
The Quick Fix
The Road to Character
The Score
The Scout Mindset
The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert
The Sirens Call
The Transcendentalists and Their World
The Uninhabitable Earth
The Unsettling of America
The Utopia of Rules
The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
The World Beyond Your Head
The Writing Life
Thinking in Systems
Through the Eye of a Needle
To Change the World
Two Cheers for Anarchism
Under a White Sky
Understanding Jacques Ellul
Vainglory
Vanishing Grace
Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature
Walden
Weird John Brown
What Are People For?
Why We Get Fat
William James
Writing the Icon of the Heart
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A collection of pointers
Lists of pointers to wise writings, grouped roughly by theme, sometimes annotated.