Essays & Articles
Linksඞ
Media analysisඞ
- "Turn Ur Brain Off" - The Purpose and Value of Media Analysis - Explanation Point
- A Campfire At The End Of The Universe - Thane Bishop: Essay about one of the greatest single player experiences one can have and short touching backstory to the author.
- A Comprehensive Reading of Nier Automata [MASSIVE SPOILERS] - Adam Millard - The Architect of Games
- Cyberpunk 2077 and loving a world that hates you - Thane Bishop
- Death Stranding: A Commentary, Critique And Understanding - Whitelight
- Dishonored, and the Morality of Uncheckable Power by Thane Bishop
- Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny
- Everything Is Content Now - Patrick H. Willems
- I Want to Tell You About My Favorite Fight Scene - Jacob Geller
- Is Art Meaningless? - Philosophy Tube
- Psühholoogiline teater – eikusagil või kõikjal? - Eero Epner
- Psycho-Pass - The "Brave New World" of Anime - Max Derrat
- Taylor Swift Is Directing Movies Now. Here's Why You Should Care. - Patrick H. Willems
- The Matrix: A Different Perspective - Now You See It
- The Most Profound Moment in Gaming History - Max Derrat
- The Philosophy of Uncle Iroh: What does it mean to be a man? - Hello Future Me
- The Unparalleled Brilliance of Pathologic 2's Mythology - Max Derrat
- Who’s Afraid of Modern Art: Vandalism, Video Games, and Fascism - Jacob Geller
Philosophyඞ
- Andrew Tate: How to be a Real Man - Shaun
- Cogito Ergo Proxy: Radical Doubt in Japanese Anime - Earl Jackson, Jr.
- do you want to be loved or do you want to be yourself? - Sisyphus 55
- existing only to exist - Professor Viral
- finding purpose in our insignificant existence - oliSUNvia
- In Praise of Heroic Masculinity - Caitlin Flanagan
- Liquid modernity? - Daniel Little
- Ööülikool - Enn Kasaku loengud - Enn Kasak
- Religion for the Nonreligious - WaitButWhy
- Survival of the Mediocre Mediocre - Venkatesh Rao: It's always optimal to leave some energy aside rather than use it to increase performance in areas where you want higher performance, since your environment is more unpredictable than you think, no matter how unpredictable you already think it is.
- Text is All You Need - Venkatesh Rao
- THE POWER OF NOW - Eckhart Tolle - Sisyphus 55
Psychologyඞ
- Against the Advice of My Superintelligence - "Solicited advice is rare because people don’t solicit advice."
- Are AI Girlfriends Ruining A Generation Of Men? - HealthyGamerGG
- Brain Waves Synchronize when People Interact and Synchronization of Metronomes
- Brainstorm Questions Not Ideas - Erika Hall
- Bronze Age Has Never Looked Stronger - Daniel Lavery
- Everything Is Television - Solar Sands
- Focusing Your Unconscious Mind: Learn Hard Concepts Intuitively (And Forever) - Colin Galen
- Laziness Does Not Exist - Devon Price
- Let It Fail - Max Countryman
- Normalization of deviance - Dan Luu
- Notes on Puzzles - Nabeel S. Qureshi
- Purpose, Moving Forward and Male Mental Health ft. Charisma On Command - HealthyGamerGG
- Shoshikantetsu - Ash Newman
- Stutz documentary and The Tools
- The age of average - Alex Murrell and HN discussion
- The Problem of What Others Think - Lawrence Yeo
- The War on Informality - Brett Scott
- Travel Is No Cure For The Mind - Lawrence Yeo
- Typology Central Wiki: One of the few useful dives into enneagrams, redefines the popular "personality types" into "root problem types".
Parentingඞ
- ADHD: Essential Ideas for Parents - Dr. Russell Barkely
- Childhoods of exceptional people - Henrik Karlsson
- This Simple Fix Could Help Anxious Kids - Camilo Ortiz and Lenore Skenazy
- What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses | Harvey Mudd Commencement Speech 2024 by Grant Sanderson
- Why Children Need Risk, Fear, and Excitement in Play - Mariana Brussoni
- Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness - Jon Haidt
Economicsඞ
- Econ Life 101 - Brett Scott
- Getting Wealthy vs. Staying Wealthy - Morgan Housel
- I, Pencil - Leonard E. Read: Following the journey of a seemingly simple pencil becomes an allegory of how everything is connected.
- Money creation in the modern economy
- The Art and Science of Spending Money - Morgan Housel
- The Casino-Chip Society and The Deposit Myth - Brett Scott
- The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats - Nick Hanauer: "To: My Fellow Zillionaires [...] You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising."
- This is Financial Advice - Folding Ideas
- What is Money - Gary Clarke
Physicsඞ
- All objects and some questions - Charles H. Lineweaver, Vihan M. Patel
- Expanding Confusion: common misconceptions of cosmological horizons and the superluminal expansion of the Universe - Tamara M. Davis, Charles H. Lineweaver
Photographyඞ
- How DSLR Cameras Work - Markus Kohlpaintner
Storiesඞ
- Don't Hex the Water - exurb1a: Story about privacy.
- Gone But Not Forgotten. Mr Chi-City Kicks it with a Friend by MrChiCity3: Guy going to a friends grave and having a heart(warming/breaking) conversation.
- Life Lessons from the Death Bed - Katie Zakrzewski: Lessons from taking care of people in their last days in a hospice.
- Sassy the Sasquatch - The Big Lez Show and The Big Lez Show is a Masterpiece - harryfromends
- The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget - Kent Nerburn: Very short story about 'little' moments that are more important than anything.
- The Egg - Andy Weir: We are all the same, interconnected fragmented being.
- The Last Church - Fan Animated pre Horus Heresy Short Story (Alternative link) - Kill Team Hungary YTC: Warhammer story about the last priest in the last church having a conversation about faith.
- There Is No Antimemetics Division - qntm: a short SCP book about how humans communicate and remember.
Uncategorizedඞ
- Always More History - Hillel Wayne
- Asynchronous conversations - Manuel Moreale and The Quiet Web - Brian Koberlein
- Breaching the Trust Thermocline - Gareth Edwards
- Do: Sol LeWitt’s Electrifying Letter of Advice on Self-Doubt, Overcoming Creative Block, and Being an Artist and the audio version (even better actually): Benedict Cumberbatch reads Sol LeWitt's letter to Eva Hesse
- Evaluation of Russia by Finnish Intelligence Colonel (Original video lecture) - Martti J. Kari
- How to Pick a Career - Tim Urban and VIA 24 Character Strengths - VIA Institute on Character
- How to Prepare A Good Presentation - Konstantin Tretyakov
- Life exists because the law of increasing entropy - Natalie Wolchover
- Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs - Folding Ideas
- Making Sense of VRChat - People Make Games
- Neural Adaptation and Perception of Music - Anton Slavin
- On keeping sketchbooks - Matt Kirkland and Pretty Sketchy - Jason Santa Maria
- Ristirahvas lohvi otsas - Mihkel Mutt
- Ronald Reagan & the Biggest Failure in Physics - BobbyBroccoli
- Shitposting is an art - Sam Greszes
- Social anxiety - Louis Rossmann
- The "Do Something About It" Club - Ratika Deshpande
- The bizarre, true story of Metal Gear Solid’s English translation - Jeremy Blaustein
- The Game That Outsold The Halo Franchise.. And Killed A Man - Manley Reviews
- The Girl Internet and the Boy Internet - Rebecca Jennings
- The Incredible Rise of North Korea’s Hacking Army - Ed Caesar
- The Intellectual We Deserve - Nathan J. Robinson
- The Network State - Balaji Srinivasan
- The Tail End - Tim Urban
- Tiktok's enshittification - Cory Doctorow
- Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket - Oliver Burkeman
- Underrated Ways to Change the World - Adam Mastroianni: Change often feels possible only at a macro level, leaving us feeling powerless. However, it's the subtle, micro-level actions that truly weave the tapestry of change.
- Unexpected Poetry of PhD Acknowledgements - Tabitha Carvan
- Valve's Gambling Problem - People Make Games
- Why Everyone Is Quitting Their Job To Play Call of Duty - BDobbinsFTW
- Why Games like Call of Duty Are Bad For You, But Games Like RuneScape Are GOOD For you! - BDobbinsFTW
- Yak shaving - Jeremy H. Brown
Favourite authorsඞ
- BDobbinsFTW
- Brett Scott
- ContraPoints
- Errant Signal
- Explanation Point
- Folding Ideas
- Jacob Geller
- jan Misali
- Louis Rossmann
- Max Derrat
- More To That
- oliSUNvia
- Patrick Boyle
- People Make Games
- Philosophy Tube
- Raptitude
- Shaun
- Sisyphus 55
- Solar Sands
- Steven Wittens
- Thane Bishop
- Wait But Why
- Whitelight
- Enn Kasak