Book excerpts
- An excerpt from Rob Henderson’s “Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class.” (persuasion.community)
- An excerpt from Aaron Goldfarb’s new book “Dusty Booze: In Search of Vintage Spirits.” (wsj.com)
- An excerpt from “The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy” by Nick Romeo. (behavioralscientist.org)
- An excerpt from “The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World’s Fastest-Growing Sport,” by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg. (wsj.com)
Q&A
- A Q&A with Byron Tau author of “Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government is Creating a New American Surveillance State.” (politico.com)
- A Q&A with Brad Wilcox author of “Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization.” (nytimes.com)
- A Q&A with Christine Yu author of “Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes.” (annehelen.substack.com)
Ukraine
- Military lessons learned from the war in Ukraine. (wapo.st)
- Life still goes on in war-torn Ukraine. (allure.com)
Dopamine
- How dopamine hits now drive culture. (honest-broker.com)
- Don’t look for dopamine hits in your portfolio. (portfoliocharts.com)
- Why YouTubers are quitting. (readtrung.com)
AI
- AI is coming for the porn industry. (wapo.st)
- Is AI going to kill off the call center worker? (economist.com)
Longreads
- Modern chip manufacturing is a technological miracle. (ig.ft.com)
- Why is Marc Benioff buying up land on the Big Island of Hawaii? (npr.org)
- Parents are highlighting their children on social media. Look away. (nytimes.com)
- Poland’s borders have been shifting for centuries. (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
- How a huge case of art fraud went down and was eventually exposed. (smithsonianmag.com)
- Why we don’t trust each other anymore. (kyla.substack.com)
- What it’s like to be a sociopath. (nytimes.com)
- How emotions are made. (themarginalian.org)
