"You cannot fact-check your way out of status competition" In daily life, social mistakes often cost more than intellectual ones, so it can feel like it's more important to belong than to be correct.... February 24th, 2026 Good Reads
"This is how societies get dumber" I believe AI is changing how we think. So, it seems, does Shreya Shankar, whose recent post I really enjoyed. Change is often good, but... January 25th, 2026 Good Reads
"Atlas is a browser, but it is not a web browser" Point three stood out to me in Anil's provocative piece. It's the only one I fully agree with, but unfortunately it's also the scariest. Especially... October 25th, 2025 Good Reads
"If I forget how to be uncomfortable, I forget how to grow" The questions posed by this piece, and others like it, have been swirling around in my head lately. In it, Jenny (a fellow Torontonian!) wonders... October 18th, 2025 Good Reads
"Who benefits from what this technology does?" In a recent piece, Christopher Butler does a great job of putting into words how AI can, if left unchecked, enable the worst tendencies of... August 18th, 2025 Good Reads
"Motivation is weather, discipline is climate" Why are we lying to young people about work? The pendulum continues to swing, from the post-war grit of our parents' values, to the easy-going... August 3rd, 2025 Good Reads
“The art of happiness is also the art of suffering well” You wouldn’t think that a book about suffering is also, intrinsically, a book about happiness, but such is the case with No Mud, No Lotus.... July 22nd, 2025 Good Reads
"Someone that you'd high five but not hug" The more I learn about anxiety, the more I begin to see evidence of its presence all around. In the world, and in the lives... July 17th, 2025 Good Reads
“If we expect nothing, we will get nothing” This is one of those posts that makes you feel like the world is trying to shake you out of a stupor. Matt Duffy is... July 11th, 2025 Good Reads
"I don’t want to hide my grief or my joy" Keith and I shared many classes in university, and I've been so happy and grateful to see him writing prolifically over the past year. We... July 6th, 2025 Good Reads
"Capitalism is the machine that will do whatever it takes to prevent us from turning it off" More than two years after it was published, I still think about this provocative post by Ted Chiang. Will A.I. Become The New McKinsey? We... June 27th, 2025 Good Reads
"The ceiling on my appreciation is high, but the floor is high, too" Sasha Chapin wrote about How to like everything more, and it made me think about how important it is to cultivate appreciation. A lot of... June 25th, 2025 Good Reads
"I walk slowly on the race track, but I can climb a ladder" Collin Lysford, in a recent issue of his Desytemize newsletter, eases into a thoughtful discussion about intelligence (artificial and otherwise) through a baking analogy. Here's... June 23rd, 2025 Good Reads
"We only know how to value things that are scarce" Adam Mastroianni, writer of the unmissable Experimental History newsletter, recently shared some writing wisdom in a piece called 28 slightly rude notes on writing. Here's... June 20th, 2025 Good Reads
"Reports From Unknown Places": a blog about the weather Ninn Salaün, a talented and expressive illustrator, seems to have equal skill wielding the pen as she does the proverbial brush if her ongoing short-form... March 26th, 2024 Good Reads
"Nobody waves—but everybody waves back" Not coincidentally, a couple of months before this new blog idea took root in my mind, I finished reading a fantastic book by Jess Pan.... March 11th, 2024 Good Reads
