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India’s Digital Dream, Hacked Natalie Obiko Pearson, Suparna Sharma | Bloomberg | Dec 05, 2025 If you don’t have a Bloomberg subscription, paste this url in...
Réminescence
Baseline Communism Richard Seymour | London Review of Books | Aug 14 2025 All societies maintain what, in Debt, he calls ‘baseline communism’: a free, non-...
In the bag
The imp of optimization Sean Voisen | seanvoisen.com | Aug 01, 2025 The brilliance of the “Imp of the Perverse” lies in Poe’s realization that we can...
Between two points
ChatGPT is huge in India. These locally focused startups found a way to compete Tauseef Ahmed & Sajid Raina | Rest of World | Nov 17, 2025 India has more...
Flattened Stardust
AI is making us work more Tawanda Munongo | tawandamunongo.dev | Oct 21, 2025 From lamps to lightbulbs, and now with LLMs, certain human advancements have...
Smartphone wastelands & Simple systems
The dawn of the post-literate society If the literate world was characterised by complexity and innovation, the post literate world is characterised by...
Attention and moving slowly
Simone Weil Against Distraction Weil saw attention as a gateway to the divine. But she also saw it as a tool for engaging deeply with other people. To truly...
Biology & meaning in an increasingly computational world
Unreliable parts make a reliable whole All of us are made of building blocks which have an autonomy of their own, but which nonetheless work together to...
Proustian Setences 2: In Time
I recently picked up Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, the second volume of In Search of Lost Time, about two years after I finished the first book....
Nows & Laters
This week I’m sharing a Farnam Street post from 2021. Too Busy to Pay Attention. In one of Einstein’s dreams, people live forever. In this world, the...
Nostalgic Fury for an Impossible Past
Last month, El País published an interview with Judith Butler. Despite only briefly touching on topics ranging from the role of identity in politics,...
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Turn This TV(Netflix) Off
Related to the last issue about music streaming, I wanted to highlight Will Tavlin's piece on Netflix, Casual Viewing, published in N+1. The article...
Listening to music
After over a decade of relying on streaming services, I recently made the switch to buying one album a month, and using YouTube to stream everything else I...
Building castles
Just one quote this week. Once again picked from Maria Popova’s book Figuring. What struck me about this is how the concerns expressed by Higginson 175 years...
Figuring: Hats, a scientist, classification
For this week, I've selected three quotes from chapters 4 and 5 of Maria Popova's book, Figuring. True to her signature style visible in every article on her...
Meaning, Memories & Tibet
Hannah Arendt on the Human Condition: Productivity Will Replace Meaning You begin the task; you complete the task. You begin the task; you complete the task....
In Time
Within a Budding Grove is the second part of the In Search of Lost Time series by Marcel Proust. Early in the book, Proust has paragraph where he grapples...
Places
Almost one year ago, I shared a quote about Andre Aciman's perspective on the difficulty of finding a sense of belonging, when the past, both real and...
Electrify / Pacify
In the current media landscape where advertising is the primary source of revenue, these companies are incentivized to hook us with a stream of never ending...
China, Japan & the Nocebo Effect
Whither China 5: No, China is not competing with India for Wall Street's attention. On net, China continues not to import capital - the issue highlighted by...