--- Founders and product managers fail at customer development, even when they're consistently talking to users. But this is less from conducting too few interviews and more from a missing feedback loop. The art of posing the right question is counterintuitive and cognitively taxing, so founders can’t| Interjected Future
Saurabh Chowdhury writes from an anthropological perspective to discuss the entanglements between evolutionary biological variations and modern sociocultural prejudices. Over millions of years, the human body has evolved with a wide range of variations.| the polyphony
Employing Alison Kafer's concept of 'crip time' as a mode of writing, Ayeong unravels the recovery paradigm and its institutional salience.| the polyphony
Katharine Cheston reflects on her own experience of ME and the need for a more caring, curious, and compassionate approach to health research.| the polyphony
Lola Dickinson interrogates her role as a historian within the medical humanities, questioning the functions of power, positionality, and perspective in her work.| the polyphony
Drawing on her fieldwork, Pragya Roy reflects on Dalit motherhood(s) as demanding, undervalued, embodied (re)productive labour. She critically explores health research, arguing that Dalit health is an afterthought, through an analysis of their everyday embodied material realities within the nexus of caste, gender, and economic class marginalization.| the polyphony
Yann Phesans interrogates the concept of therapeutic neutrality, combining personal history and clinical experience to offer an alternative.| the polyphony
Emily Katz Anhalt— “Oh, Odysseus, looking upon you, we do not in any way consider you to be like a deceiving, seductive man and a thievish rogue—such as the many... READ MORE The post In Defense of Incredulity appeared first on Yale University Press.| Yale University Press
Jake Subryan Richards— How do we study an illegal business enterprise, such as the trafficking of human beings? How do the survivors of trafficking prove what has happened to them?... READ MORE The post Speaking Truth to Power appeared first on Yale University Press.| Yale University Press
The Freedom Magazine began in April 2024 and has been published monthly until recently. From now on, we will only publish four magazines a year. This is to reduce the workload and to make it more affordable. Many who have left us mentioned that they had to cut down on their expenses due to the rise in living costs. If…| The White Rose UK
Drones reshape our ethical reasoning. They have a formative effect on the pilot’s cognition and the legal and moral frameworks the individual is situated within.| E-International Relations
Hikikomori: a middle-class Japanese youth withdrawn from social conventions; engages in all social interaction via computers. The 1990s and early...| Independent Magazine
Clearing up misunderstandings about how folgezettel functions in the zettelkasten| Writing by Bob Doto
This article gives a preliminary framework for people wanting to experiment with a collaborative zettelkasten. Keep in mind, these are mere suggestions, since I've not yet experimented with this type of slip box. As to whether the suggestions are valid, this will be determined by anyone who attempts to put them into practice. Note: While this article was written in the context of a Luhmann-style zettelkasten, people using similar, adjacent models, should feel free to work with what's presente...| Writing by Bob Doto
The term "bottom-up" is commonly used to characterize "flat" note-taking systems that reject both hierarchy and topical folders, ones that draw inspiration from Niklas Luhmann's zettelkasten practice and writings. However, the term still retains a degree of ambiguity, functioning as shorthand for working with ideas "organically" or in a way that "more closely resembles how our brain works." Despite its frequent use, the question remains: what do we mean when we describe the zettelkasten as a ...| Writing by Bob Doto
Maintaining a Luhmann-style zettelkasten is, in part, a practice of destabilizing someone else's structured thinking. Complex ideas developed by a writer, once skillfully woven into a fabric of singular theses, are unwound from their original focus in order to yield separate, "atomic" ideas that can be reimagined, reinterpreted, and, ultimately, repurposed for new work. While on the surface this pillaging of someone's writing may seem destructive, even an affront to something sacred, it is ac...| Writing by Bob Doto
This article is part of a new series titled "Doing What Matters Most," which looks at how simple, flexible, personal, project management systems can help people make sense of their lives.| Writing by Bob Doto
Despite the many different points of origin a main note may have,1 developing ideas in the context of a zettelkasten can generally be achieved in two ways:| Writing by Bob Doto
All source material is handled more or less the same way when working with a Luhmann-style zettelkasten. Whether it's a 500-page book on literary theory or a...| Writing by Bob Doto
For 85 years, Meanjin has published the essays of Australian writers. The magazine’s founding editor, Clem Christesen, wanted Meanjin’s writers ‘to reveal and clarify our life by …| ESTHER ANATOLITIS
By Jenny Brandt The actions of the Federal Government have caused harm. For grantees, this has in some cases led to them laying off staff, spending limited resources without reimbursement, and may even result in threatening an organizations’ existence. It has certainly eroded relationships built with communities over years. And life-saving measures that were going to be implemented will not. The post Defunding of the ECJ Communities Grants: The scale of what is being taken from communities ...| CCF
By Nel Taylor Someone working from [a Collective Abundance] model doesn’t wait for big grants to trickle down. They find creative, hyper-local ways to resource others in the community by sharing donors ethically, co-hosting campaigns, exchanging labor, pooling sponsorships, and even trading non-cash resources that reduce expenses. The post Maybe it’s time to acknowledge scarcity… in order to cultivate collective abundance appeared first on CCF.| CCF
This essay is a reflection on the book The crisis of narration by Byung-Chul Han, read during the summer of 2025. All the quotes are from the book. Because we lack sufficiently strong communal narratives, our late modern societies are unstable. Without a shared narrative, the political, which makes shared action possible, cannot properly form. Introduction Intelligence computes and counts. Spirit, however, recounts. I can’t recall how I found out about this book. I remember — ironical...| Konfetti Explorations Feeds
Apple’s “Price-Tag TV,” to propose a new entrant to the TV name game, is expensive programming about folks who like expensive things, made for viewers who either can’t see or don’t care about the difference between good and expensive. The post Price-Tag TV and the Transformation of Television Prestige appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
A behind-the-scenes look at what Public Books editors and staff have been reading this month. The post On Our Nightstands: September 2025 appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
“In recent years, Almodóvar’s films have become more serious, moving away from the campy melodrama and drugged gazpacho we knew and loved him for, toward a mature reckoning with the bigger questions of existence.” The post Young Almodóvar Versus Old Almodóvar in the World Series of Love appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
Are you a banker or a manufacturer or an industrialist? If so, Stendhal doesn’t want you to read “Love”; you wouldn’t understand. The post B-Sides: Stendhal’s “Love” appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
“Dahomey” narrates the Danxomèan treasures’ epic journey home. And yet, the film remains haunted by the visible and invisible human labor that made this homecoming—and its cinematic telling—possible.| Public Books
Young Singaporean men beset with economic anxiety, navigating changing gender norms, and fed on a social media diet of conspicuous consumption are charting new career paths both worrying and brave.| Jom
Deterrence and public opinion are used as justification for retaining the death penalty. We interrogate both notions, as we argue for abolition.| Jom
Despite colonialism’s incessant efforts to conjure and enforce new categories to better exploit vast populations, Malaya’s dizzying plurality could not be contained.| Jom
Recently, a company I consult for asked me to help them design a process for assessing the self-awareness of potential hires during interviews. Here’s what they said: We frequently hire and then get stuck with people who came across as smart and/or charming in the interview but then turned out to have major gaps in […] The post 7 Interview Questions to Assess Self-Awareness appeared first on Nick Wignall.| Nick Wignall
“Man needs to have secrets, and… the real ones come to him out of the depths of the unconscious,…”[1] “It is not we who have secrets, it is the real secrets that have us.”[2] “Nothing makes people more lonely, and more cut off from the fellowship of others, than the possession of an anxiously […]| Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences
Their debate defines our moral requirements for a just regime.| Modern Age
That’s the real question behind all the hype surrounding AI.| Modern Age
From 1980: Is capital punishment ever justified?| Modern Age
Churchill helped the Allies win World War II—but at what price?| Modern Age
Ordinary People and Raging Bull couldn’t be more different in style or tone. Raging Bull is all blood, sweat and tears and wears its heart on its sleeve. The heart in Ordinary People is alive and well in Connie but is buried beyond all reach in the green, green lawns of Lake Forest. Ordinary People feels as if it was made in a different era – a slower, more buttoned-up, soporific world. No expressionistic flourishes here. No swearing, no violence, but behind the posh parties and white pic...| 3:AM Magazine
It’s that which constrains him, honest man and writer, to gathering a kind of manna at a border from which almost nothing can be seen: that which flocculates when we write “tightening the nuts and bolts”, as he said, or, to quote Duras, “at the words’ crest”; there, where the black, horned body of what one has to write, that which no one can ever truly read, lurks. But whose business is that, after all? What counts is that you have danced with the moths, and are finally able to fa...| 3:AM Magazine
Nowadays, we usually take in written language by reading it silently. This was not always the case. For thousands of years after the invention of writing, texts were normally decoded by reading aloud: a considerable help in puzzling out the meaning of a continuous scribble without punctuation, even without spaces between the words. Indeed, the […]| Bondwine Books
To tell a story, you need a way of delivering it from your brain to the brains of your audience; that is what ‘telling’ means. Throughout history, there have been only three main methods of delivering a story: the spoken word, the written word, and various kinds of dramatic performance. Each of these three can […]| Bondwine Books
For convenience, I am pinning this post to the top of my home page, so that readers interested in my monograph on ‘Seven Layers of Story’ can read the individual chapters in the right order. Here are the links: A Critical Problem Translation, Adaptation, and the Layered Model The OSI Model and the Story Model […]| Bondwine Books
In the earliest days of electronic computers, each computer stood completely alone. Each new machine represented a unique design, with its own architecture, operating codes, and methods of storing data. The early computer engineers were staggeringly ingenious in coming up with different ways of representing binary information. On different machines, ones and zeroes were represented […]| Bondwine Books
Seven is a significant number, for reasons that have nothing to do with luck. It has been said that the human brain is not equipped to deal directly with numbers larger than five; but that appears to be more a fault of the human visual cortex, which needs to mentally divide larger collections of objects […]| Bondwine Books
The late Ursula K. Le Guin complained that when she taught creative writing classes, there were always students who had a fine command of prose mechanics, but no notion of what a story is or how to tell one. She never could find a way to explain to such students what it was that she […]| Bondwine Books
‘In our world,’ said Eustace, ‘a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.’ ‘Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is but only what it is made of.’ —C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Do not be alarmed by the title of this essai. The problem I propose […]| Bondwine Books
Today is the Ides of March by the old Roman reckoning. It is, of course, most famous as the day of the year when Julius Caesar was assassinated, but long before that it was a day of special importance on the Roman calendar: the traditional start of the campaigning season, when the winter rains (and snows in high country) were over, and the ground was dry enough for Roman legionaries to march forth and hack Gauls, Etruscans, or Samnites to pieces. This was the Roman national sport before they ...| Bondwine Books
A highly subjective list of inventions borne of a fever dream from a nap in the middle of the day.| Bram Adams
Pascal Engel critically reviews 'A Social History of Analytic Philosophy' by Christoph Schuringa. The post A Just-So Story first appeared on The Philosophers' Magazine.| The Philosophers' Magazine
Vincent Descombes looks back on his history of French philosophy from 1933 to 1978. The post 45 Years of French Philosophy first appeared on The Philosophers' Magazine.| The Philosophers' Magazine
Upright birthing positions can be safer for mother and baby than birthing on the back.| Sequencer
Chatbots won't obliterate everyone's critical thinking. Lessons from the past tech revolutions and today’s experts signal how to protect your mind.| Sequencer
Development theory requires a shift to a self-reflexive, decolonial approach to avoid reproducing the Eurocentric biases inherent in the Success/Failure binary.| E-International Relations
On SOLEIL Ô, WEAPONS, and whether the vieux-monde is really out to get you| Vajra Chandrasekera
We Malaysians have learned over the last few painful decades: you need to be united as a people to effect any effective change in your country.| Elizabeth Tai
My choice is to leave all planning, preparation and worrying about food to my husband. That feels like a radical feminist act.| The Persistent
While gentle parenting places a high value on children’s feelings, it doesn’t have the same concerns about parents.| The Persistent
Nothing will take away from the immense wins Ruth Bader Ginsburg secured for those who couldn’t stage their own fights. But she was complicated, and so is her legacy.| The Persistent
Masters of Light and Vision: Christie's Fall Auction Celebrates Landscape Photography's Greatest Pioneers - Luminous Landscape| Luminous Landscape
What happens when superheroes die, and what if their power doesn’t stay buried?| The Vanguardian
There is a famous story amongst Assyriologists. It concerns a man named George Smith, who was working at the British Museum in the mid-nineteenth century but who was by no means someone you’d expect to be working at the British Museum and studying and deciphering cuneiform tablets since he was, in fact, born in working class circumstances in London in 1840, and managed, somehow, to teach himself to read Akkadian and Sumerian, which anyone who has ever looked at a cuneiform tablet will reali...| Slant Books
Sometimes illumination comes to us from a single word. This recently happened to me when I was reading the Gospel of Luke and encountered this verse from the Passion narrative, about Pilate, Barabbas, and Jesus: “And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.” (KJV 23:25) It’s the deadly precision of “will” that makes the sentence disturbing. The post Close Reading the Gospel of Luke—wit...| Slant Books
Norman Fischer is an influential American Zen-Buddhist, a poet and writer, and a Jew. He wrote Opening to You: Zen-Inspired Translations of the Psalms after spending a week with the Trappist monks at Gethsemani Abbey, where he experienced for the first time the Christian monastic practice of daily recitation of the psalms. Troubled by “the violence, passion, and bitterness” expressed in some of the psalms but recognizing the power they held for the monks, Fischer decided to investigate th...| Slant Books
🔰If CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types) are new to you, check out this previous post. There's a simple way to understand CRDTs: It leverages algebra to unmix the inevitable mixing of data when syncing over an unreliable network. Why are networks unreliable? For one, it'd be really expensive to build| Interjected Future
"You don’t `learn` from a chatbot. You consume...They’re spewing slop and people are gobbling it up." No. You’re holding it wrong. You can definitely learn from LLMs. It has to be with critical thinking.| Interjected Future
Compositionality can be much more than just an interface between two objects or functions. It can be a set of laws.| Interjected Future
This remarkably timely, clear, concise, and pressing intervention is a must read for all organizers and activists fighting for and witnessing the birth of a new world. Shaka A. Shakur’s latest book reaffirms, amplifies, and extends the theory and practice of the New Afrikan Independence Movement while offering an accessible entry point for those unfamiliar with the tradition and its continued relevance. From the Republic of New Afrika to Palestine bridges any historical gaps in the strugg...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Marc James Carpenter— The American West is suffused with pioneer place-names. There are pioneer squares as gathering places, pioneer museums for children, pioneer statues looming over government buildings. Business names,... READ MORE The post The Bloody Origins of the Word “Pioneer” appeared first on Yale University Press.| Yale University Press
Gabriel Said Reynolds— The eighteenth chapter of the Qur’an is named “The Cave” because it includes a story of young men who slept for hundreds of years in a cave... READ MORE The post A Dog, a Donkey, and an Ant: Animals in the Qur’an and Their Biblical Background appeared first on Yale University Press.| Yale University Press
I’ll be the first to admit that I have a lot of disabilities, so after being excluded so many times, I started to question: “Is it just me? Am I too hard to accommodate?” But the requests I made were simple...| CCF
In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his lifelong struggle for identity as a Viet Kieu, or a Vietnamese national living abroad. At age eleven, Lam, the son of a South Vietnamese general, came to California on the eve of the fall of Saigon to communist forces. He traded his Vietnamese name for a more American one and immersed himself in the allure of the American dream: something not clearly defined for him or his family. Refl...| Listen & Be Heard Network
Three works-in-progress tell the stories of Lyndon B. Johnson, Stalin, and Kissinger.| Modern Age
What I Learned As a Filmmaker, Journalist, and Creative at Cannes Film Festival. The post Motion Pictures of Cannes appeared first on Independent Magazine.| Independent Magazine
The more experienced attendees explain that here, one’s individual experience is seen as a symptom of the group’s dynamics. If someone is physically ill, it is because the system needs to eject someone; if someone feels rejected, it is because the group needs a scapegoat to hold everyone’s feelings of shame. If you act out or say something inflammatory, it’s because you’ve been unconsciously mobilized by others. Everything means something: if you close a window, you are trying to pr...| n+1Articles – n+1
Trump was — and is — intent on creating a new future, and to gain a better sense of that vision, I needed to understand what future he was working to prevent. I asked Andil to meet that weekend, and he agreed. I would play amateur journalist and interview Andil again, this time about how he fell into the government’s crosshairs.| n+1Articles – n+1
This essay is a goodbye to our little dog, a miniature wirehaired dachshund who gave us more than we could ever fathom, until she was gone. Read in full on Analog.Cafe.| Analog.Cafe
“Prudent; Rational”© 2025 by Michael L. Utley “I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.” Charlie Kirk, April 2023 ….. San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre, San … Continue reading “Prudent; Rational”| Silent Pariah
The Chinese immigrants who built the Transcontinental Railroad quietly endured racism and violence, fostering a complicated legacy for Chinese-Americans.| High Country News
The third part of Mr. Mercer’s novella of Robert Mathews by Douglas Mercer WHEN I MET HIM, Dr. William Pierce was 47 years old but he was, in our circles at least, already a legend; or more than that: a master. To the world, of course, he was nothing of the sort, he was the Evil One, a figure out of their…| National Vanguard
by Wolf Stoner National Vanguard Russian correspondent First: The Ukraine War Has Now Changed its Nature THE GLOBAL SITUATION continues to deteriorate. What is most remarkable is the acceleration of the downslide into chaos in recent months. Trump’s ascent to power is a remarkable token of this process.…| National Vanguard
The second part of Mr. Mercer’s novella of Robert Mathews by Douglas Mercer MY FAMILY MOVED to Phoenix, Arizona when I was seven years old (1960). Phoenix then was a paradisiacal place — nearly all White. It had an overlay of Indian heritage but this was well before the Indians joined the Blacks…| National Vanguard
Celebrating the birth of a patriotic Titan HAIL, fellow patriots! Today, we gather to celebrate the birth of a true American icon, the indomitable Revilo P. Oliver. On this glorious day, July 7th, 2025, we honor the life and legacy of this visionary thinker, scholar, and unwavering defender of our| National Vanguard
Many years ago, I used to write annual birthday essays sharing the most important lessons I’ve learned over time. They were an annual tradition I cherished because it allowed me to reflect and consolidate what I think I know to be true. Having a log of my learnings over the years creates the opportunity to […] The post 38 Lessons on Work, Life, Faith, and Family (Birthday Lessons 2025) appeared first on Barrett Brooks.| Barrett Brooks
Lawyer Michael A. Fragoso reviews Justice Amy Coney Barrett's new book The post The Justice as Teacher first appeared on Anchoring Truths.| Anchoring Truths
Reframed as a “bewitched middlebrow,” Buzzati’s fiction re-enters literary history not as a comforting escape, but as a sharp tool for existential inquiry. The post Betwixt or Bewitched? Rethinking the “Middlebrow” with Dino Buzzati appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
A translation renaissance in US publishing just ended. And you probably missed it. The post How Translations Sell: Three U.S. Eras of International Bestsellers appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
Given that the border is already mystified as a technology, new forms of computerized border technologies doubly fetishize the configurations of people, materials, force, and law that compose bordering practices.| Public Books
The conversation I want to have is about the internal cost of relying on capitalist tools built for profit, extraction, and domination. And how ChatGPT is weakening our capacity to reimagine liberated futures.| CCF
The journey to Mala is best undertaken after the monsoon sets sail. The journey into Mala’s psyche, as well. Mid-season squall, trees whipping, flipping. Thick clouds cruising low to the northeast. Silver of slamming rain, green of roughed-up leaves, umber of supple twigs. Wind-borne ocean dunking everybody. In the sodden detritus, leeches probe for blood, […]| Center for Humans & Nature
There are no mistakes in art, only attempts - and why that changes everything about how you create. The post The Referent Part 4 – Creating Art appeared first on Luminous Landscape.| Luminous Landscape
Explore how the color orange influences photography and creativity. Learn why capturing vibrant hues is about vision, not just the camera.| Luminous Landscape
When the state brings itself to relinquish some control, tantalising new possibilities of being, living and thriving emerge.| Jom
What if your favourite packet of Maggi isn’t just comfort food, but a mirror of global capitalism, cultural loss, and nostalgia? The writer unpacks how a Swiss invention became a South-east Asian staple; redefining taste, memory, and the meaning of home in just two minutes.| Jom
Most of the anxious high-achievers I work with are more anxious than they need to be and less high-achieving than they could be because they’re stuck in the straight-A mindset. In school, it’s possible to be a straight-A student if you’re reasonably intelligent with a decent work ethic. But in life, no matter how smart […] The post How to Be a B Student appeared first on Nick Wignall.| Nick Wignall
A contrarian take on imposter syndrome and a better way to handle self-doubt and insecurities — from psychologist Nick Wignall| Nick Wignall
How can a universe that is ruled by natural laws give rise to aims and intentions? Whether or not a human observer exists, the natural laws would continue to operate as they are indefinitely. The key difference between physics and biology is function or purpose. There is, in the standard scientific interpretation, no purpose in the existence of the Moonor an electron or in a collision of two gas particles. Source| Books – Discovery Institute
At Company S, The developers were incredibly capable of designing and implementing fabulous product. The company was started by all engineering/development people, and we didn’t know how to attract any other kind of marketing, or senior management capability to the …| GeraldMWeinberg.com
The author comments: This paper was composed as an exercise in criticizing the design of experiments. You may wish to test your scientific acumen by identifying as many fallacies as you can – then compare these with your favorite experiment …| GeraldMWeinberg.com
Gerald M. Weinberg The author comments: Over the years, I’ve tried to show managers and developers how much serious damage mistakes can cause, but seriousness doesn’t seem to carry much weight with software folks. So, instead, I’ve decided to offer …| GeraldMWeinberg.com
