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"From about 1800 to the present the world’s economy did something good, which looks to be permanent and looks to be justified." Deirdre McClosky on the Great Enrichment mccloskey.substack.com/p/the-world...
How does an NHL player get better over the summer? For the Bruins' Mikey Eyssimont, the routine includes skating, lifting, and hot yoga - link in replies
Marriages imploding, careers in question: therapist Jonathan Bastian takes an empathetic look at how middle age is hitting millennials lifeexamined.substack.com/p/now-im-se...
In New York City, "books are everywhere," says Molly Young. On her summer beach-reading list: a storage-unit thief, a clairvoyant blind Greek peddler, and a baronessa hiding in the hills of Tuscany: mollyyoung.substack.com/p/book-reco...
“In looking to the past, we derive strength to face the problems of the future, which are very grave.” Mad About Churchill, just launched on Substack with the support of Winston Churchill's literary estate, will share archives covering the alliances and decisions that shaped the twentieth century
Read the whole post, How To Be More Agentic, on Useful Fictions: usefulfictions.substack.com/p/how-to-be...
From 2024, the blog post that became the basis for writer Cate Hall's book You Can Just Do Things: how to develop "radical agency"
Read Anna Newton's post on The Wardrobe Edit: annanewton.substack.com/p/how-to-be...
The Wardrobe Edit's mega-viral post on how to be more organized, from style hacks to a "master list of meals"
Read the essay on Will's Substack, Minutes: minutes.substack.com/p/on-grindslop
Alternative real estate pro Paul Stanton on the playbook to 9% cash-on-cash returns: fast decision-making, off-market sourcing, and complexity that passive capital can't handle
Fifty-eight of the top 100 in this ranking don't appear on the Forbes Midas list. View it in full on Ilya Strebulaev's Substack: ilyastrebulaev.substack.com/p/ranking-v...
"The top 5% of VCs account for roughly 90% of the industry's profits." Who's the best in venture capital? A Stanford professor evaluated 230,000 investments to create this list ranking the top 100
Read Derek's post, Why Are Men So Bad At Making—and Keeping—Friends? on his Substack: www.derekthompson.org/p/americas-...
Derek Thompson's hot take on the friendship crisis: "The problem isn’t that Americans feel lonely; the problem is that too many Americans, who are spending more time alone than ever, do not feel lonely enough"
Read Ray's full speech on his Substack: raydalio.substack.com/p/long-isla...
"I got in the habit of viewing pain as a signal that I have a problem" - Ray Dalio looks back, and shares the most important things he learned in the last 55 years
Cut every engineering time estimate in half, and watch the project finish early? Engineering Leadership walks through a case study for managers on how to use aggressive targets to speed up your team
From 2022: Scott Alexander on rules of thumb that "almost always work" - and why being right 99.9% of the time might mean adding zero value
“If you have a baby the old-fashioned way, you’re basically rolling the dice” - Thiel Fellow and startup founder Noor Siddiqui tells Alex Konrad how she's using genetic testing to create "superbabies"
Citrini argues humanoid robots will transform warehouses and homes within three or four years - much sooner than the market is pricing in
Read Dr. Szal's full post on her Substack, The Female Edge: saraszalmd.substack.com/p/the-femal...
"The anatomy and physiology of the female orgasm have been described in the peer-reviewed literature as often neglected. Correct." Dr. Sara Szal on why the orgasm gap is actually a knowledge gap
Read Madison Huizinga's post on Cafe Hysteria: madisonhuizinga.substack.com/p/boomers-a...
Americans over 60 spend over half their daily leisure time in front of a screen. Madison Huizinga asks: while we worry about phone-based childhoods, is the Boomer generation falling prey to phone-based retirement?
"I wanted to consciously buy proximity to a labor market, a conversation, and a version of myself that may not have emerged as easily elsewhere. Was that worth it?" Read Pranav Mehta's post on his Substack: mehtadology.substack.com/p/on-grad-s...