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last written · apr 02, 2026
Culture apr 02, 2026
What Wiki.
On the most-read book in history, the people who write it for free, and why the internet's strangest encyclopedia keeps working when nothing else on the web does.
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Systems mar 28, 2026
The two-list rule.
Every system I've tried for organizing my life eventually collapsed into two lists — one for today, one for everything else. Here's why that's the only thing that ever held.
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History mar 19, 2026
The library at Alexandria didn't burn.
At least, not the way you were taught. The library died slowly — over three centuries, in a hundred small neglects. The lesson isn't about fire.
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Design mar 11, 2026
Buttons that admit they're buttons.
A short defense of affordances, against a decade of interfaces that made you squint to find the door. When a button looks like a button, nothing has to explain itself.
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