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JIA TOLENTINO · ESSAY
The internet replaced boredom with surveillance, and we agreed because the alternative was being alone with ourselves.
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RICK RUBIN · PODCAST
The work tells you what it wants. Your job is to get quiet enough to hear it.
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RADDEN KEEFE · NEW YORKER
He had the kind of confidence that only survives in rooms where nobody asks questions.
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EZRA KLEIN · INTERVIEW
Most people don't want freedom. They want relief.
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TED GIOIA · SUBSTACK
A genre dies the year it stops embarrassing its parents.
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DWARKESH · PODCAST
You can tell who someone is by what they refuse to optimize.
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FREDDIE DEBOER · ESSAY
Every era is convinced it invented sincerity. Each one is wrong.
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ROBERT CARO · INTERVIEW
Power doesn't always corrupt. But it always reveals.
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JIA TOLENTINO · ESSAY
The internet replaced boredom with surveillance, and we agreed because the alternative was being alone with ourselves.
yank.info
RICK RUBIN · PODCAST
The work tells you what it wants. Your job is to get quiet enough to hear it.
yank.info
RADDEN KEEFE · NEW YORKER
He had the kind of confidence that only survives in rooms where nobody asks questions.
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EZRA KLEIN · INTERVIEW
Most people don't want freedom. They want relief.
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TED GIOIA · SUBSTACK
A genre dies the year it stops embarrassing its parents.
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DWARKESH · PODCAST
You can tell who someone is by what they refuse to optimize.
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FREDDIE DEBOER · ESSAY
Every era is convinced it invented sincerity. Each one is wrong.
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ROBERT CARO · INTERVIEW
Power doesn't always corrupt. But it always reveals.
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