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"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
Gaming's Infectious Era - 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
How Well Can You Really Know a Game? - Jacob Geller
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
I Tried to Become More Awake in 7 Days... Heraclitus Was Right - alfsvoid: being more present/awake, disposition of self and alignment, thinking about thinking and more.
A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird - Derek Thompson: How it came to be that we seem to have an implicit theory of attention that treats it as a resource to manage top-down, and how that has led as away from our local context(s).

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".
The Acceleration of Addictiveness - Paul Graham and Addiction alloys - Internet Talk
Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings - Marco Giancotti on Aether Mug

Parentingඞ

ADHD: Essential Ideas for Parents - Dr. Russell Barkely
Childhoods of exceptional people - Henrik Karlsson
Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
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
How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis - Jason Hickel, Dylan Sullivan
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
Society's Technical Debt and Software's Gutenberg Moment - SK Ventures: Background, reasons, and implications of AI taking developer jobs in the future, and how to interpret it generally.
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
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation - paper by DARON ACEMOGLU, SIMON JOHNSON, AND JAMES A. ROBINSON or 2024 prize lecture in economic sciences
Causal Inference: The Mixtape - Scott Cunningham: encompasses the tools and methods necessary to arrive at meaningful answers to the questions of causation.

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
The Photographer Who Takes No Pictures - Kodo Simone: Why and what we capture, filter, and keep snapshots from our lives.

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
Stoop Coffee: How simple things bring people together and how to foster that for your immediate community.
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
Chaos Communication Congress recordings - Chaos Computer Club: Congress offers lectures and workshops and various events on a multitude of topics including (but not limited to) information technology and generally a critical-creative attitude towards technology and the discussion about the effects of technological advances on society.
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
Nine Things I Learned in Ninety Years - Edward Packard
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
The Tiny Teams Playbook - Shawn swyx Wang: team creation advice from 7 teams with 100 people and 200m ARR.
Epistemological Bias in the Physical and Social Sciences - Abdelwahab M. Elmessiri: Thoughts on cultural divides and Islamic bias and thought process.

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