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2026-08-31David Chapman — Meaning is cloud-like: real but unholdable, and fixating it is the same error as denying itmeaningness.com
2026-09-01Scott Alexander — once a prior is trapped, every new piece of evidence only makes you wrongerastralcodexten.com
2026-09-02Venkatesh Rao — you have to flatten the world to read it, and the flattening is what you then can't seeribbonfarm.com · dormant
2026-09-03Erik Hoel — dreams aren't filing away your day, they're stopping your day from making you stupidtheintrinsicperspective.com
2026-09-04Scott Aaronson — between "computable" and "computable in time" lies an entire universe, and physics and philosophy live in that gapscottaaronson.blog
2026-09-05Charity Majors — the gap between writing code and seeing what it does decides everything elsecharity.wtf
2026-09-06Cosma Shalizi — the common factor in your data is the shadow of your algorithm, not a bone of the worldbactra.org
2026-08-31Kevin Simler — your strangest behaviors aren't glitches; they're working on the people around youmeltingasphalt.com · dormant
2026-09-07Julia Evans — not understanding isn't a verdict on you; break it into one lookupable fact and sixteen years is normal speedjvns.ca
2026-09-08Gwern Branwen — how one person finds out what's true: price the experiment first, then write so the answer gains value with timegwern.net
2026-09-09L. M. Sacasas — "It's just a tool" is empty: a tool can be put down, an environment absorbs youtheconvivialsociety.substack.com
2026-09-10Maggie Appleton — everyone asks "what app is that?"; the tool was never the software, it was the practicemaggieappleton.com
2026-09-11Lilian Weng — 270,000 words mapping a field, and four sentences where she says what she thinkslilianweng.github.io
2026-09-12Martin Kleppmann — what deceives you isn’t the code, it’s the words you were handed to describe itmartin.kleppmann.com
2026-09-13Ada Palmer — The Renaissance invented its own golden age, because the story soldexurbe.com
2026-09-14Nadia Asparouhova — open source was never a community; it's one person working the control tower, and the rest of us are nextnadia.xyz
2026-09-15Murat Demirbas — brains are ordinary, so don't think harder, build an instrument that works every timemuratbuffalo.blogspot.com
2026-09-16Sarah Constantin — Funded, sold, staffed, IPO'd: still possibly worthless all the way downsarahconstantin.substack.com
2026-09-17Bret C. Devereaux — By the numbers you weren't the knight; you were the peasant running for the woodsacoup.blog
2026-09-18Wang Yin — one lifelong subject: how knowledge rots as it is copied down the chainyinwang.org
2026-09-19Adam Mastroianni — science is a strong-link problem: the gate that stops the worst stops the best tooexperimental-history.com
2026-09-20Aswath Damodaran — "what is it worth" and "what will someone pay" are two questions, and most market arguments happen between themaswathdamodaran.blogspot.com
2026-09-21Bert Hubert — sovereignty isn't whose equipment you buy, it's whether anyone is still allowed to open the wallberthub.eu
2026-09-22Bhante Sujato — “The tradition requires it” is usually one document nobody has readsujato.wordpress.com · dormant
2026-09-23Ben Thompson — own the customer directly and every supplier becomes an interchangeable partstratechery.com
2026-09-24Derek Lowe — nine out of ten projects are going to fail, and that number decides everything elsescience.org
2026-09-25Elisabeth Bik — she scanned 20,000 papers without reading a word, then audited her own complaintsscienceintegritydigest.com
2026-09-26Cedric Chin — experts can't explain what they do, so stop listening and go after the eyescommoncog.com
2026-09-27Emily Oster — "no amount has been proven safe" is a logic error, not a findingparentdata.org
2026-09-28Jayarava Attwood — The most-recited Buddhist text was assembled in China, and its first sentence stayed ungrammatical for 67 yearsjayarava.blogspot.com
2026-09-29Dan Wang — Technology isn't written on the blueprint; it lives in people's hands, and a country can outsource those hands and forget what it once knew how to makedanwang.co
2026-09-30Eric Schwitzgebel — You can't say what you're seeing right now, yet you're about to decide whether machines have rightsschwitzsplinters.blogspot.com
2026-10-01Gergely Orosz — what sets your pay is less how good you are than who your employer benchmarks againstblog.pragmaticengineer.com
2026-10-02Grace W. Lindsay — every time a test of intelligence gets solved, it stops counting as a test of intelligencegracewlindsay.com
2026-10-03John Michael Greer — Civilizations don't fall off cliffs; they sell one piece of furniture a year, like a man who can't make the mortgageecosophia.net
2026-10-04Henrik Karlsson — a blog post is a search query: write narrowly enough to summon your people, then become who they make youhenrikkarlsson.xyz
2026-10-05John C. Baez — different sciences keep rewriting the same equations; a mathematician’s job is to recognize themjohncarlosbaez.wordpress.com
2026-10-06John Hawks — more people meant faster evolution, and our past was never a tree but a braided streamjohnhawks.net
2026-10-07Kris De Decker — Efficiency makes today's way of life non-negotiable; to really save energy, let some lights go outsolar.lowtechmagazine.com
2026-10-08Maria Popova / The Marginalian — choosing is a creative act, and what you choose is a moral questionthemarginalian.org
2026-10-09José Luis Ricón / Nintil — chase grand narratives to their primary sources until they fall apart, then meet the knowledge no one can write downnintil.com
2026-10-10Melanie Mitchell — A score is not a skill: reword the question and see if the machine understood or memorizedaiguide.substack.com
2026-10-11Paul Kingsnorth / The Abbey of Misrule — the modern world is a religion that won't admit it is one, with money on the thronepaulkingsnorth.substack.com
—Patrick McKenzie（patio11） — Bits about Moneybitsaboutmoney.com
—Rachel Kroll — Rachel by the bayrachelbythebay.com
—Sabine Hossenfelder — Backreactionbackreaction.blogspot.com
—Sarah Perry — The View from Helltheviewfromhell.blogspot.com · dormant
—Simon Willison — Simon Willison's Weblogsimonwillison.net
—Tanner Greer — The Scholar's Stagescholars-stage.org
—Ursula K. Le Guin — Ursula K. Le Guin — Blogursulakleguin.com · dormant
—Vicki Boykis — Tech Blogvickiboykis.com
—ちきりん（Chikirin，匿名写作） — Chikirinの日記chikirin.hatenablog.com
—阳志平 — 阳志平的网志 / 心智工具箱yangzhiping.com