10 hand-picked articles from our collection
This digest was algorithmically curated to spark serendipity and encourage intellectual wandering. Each article was chosen at random from our recent collection, creating unexpected connections and delightful discoveries across diverse topics and perspectives.
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 at 3:55 AM
It is in relationships that we discover both our depths and our limits, there that we anneal ourselves and transcend ourselves, there that we are hurt the most and there that we find the most healing.
"It was the worst possible way to end the winter that was already worse than normal."
"People like AI when they use it themselves; they don’t like AI writ large"
Human action plans are often organized around goal hierarchies, with lower-level subgoals helping to achieve higher-level goals.
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Are the Gulf states a wild card that could unblock the impasse between the US and Iran?
“American fascism would . . . be correspondingly democratic in the American fashion.” — Bertolt Brecht, Journals At the end of last year, Donald Trump deployed more than two thousand Immigration and C
English prose has become much easier to read. But shorter sentences had little to do with it.
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