Ready to go out into the big wide world

Also: You should open this newsletter right now, I'll explain why (#525)

What the comfort class doesn't get

State terror and how to find work you love (#525)

Back from the dead 🐺

Plus: borrowed beats, loaned lyrics, and the little hand that is everywhere. (#524)

Manosphere meets atmosphere

AI, DEI and why you shouldn't get surgery today. (#523)

Adolescence

Plus: A great new podcast series on the secret plot to invade Ukraine (#522)

Lonely but beautiful actions

Plus: the hidden power of introverts, and how AI is polluting the web (#221)

Yes, we can (improve lives with money)

Plus: A tour of Disney's secret test lab (#220)

You will not feel pain. We will be okay.

Elections, the authoritarian playbook, and an ode to the hardest working font in Manhattan (#519)

Hope is a performative emotion

Also: Grief, microplastics and a recipe against right-wing populism. (#518)

10 ways to think about these «peace negotiations»

Plus: Dishonest charts, regime change, and what it means to be a gardener. (#517)

Meditations in an Emergency

And why every organisation needs a keeper of the truth. (#516)

What are we seeing?

Plus: Building churches upside-down and humanity's last exam. (#515)

50 lives you haven't lived

Plus the cutest story I've seen on the web in a while. (#514)

How to break the spell of the status quo

Plus some good news from Europe and a new in-depth profile of stuff our modern world runs on (#513)

Hello, Monsters!

Also: Why knowing is hard, and making sense of galaxies by turning them into cereals. (#511)

For Zuck's Sake

Also inside: 100 nice things, not even counting the 52 Lego bricks. (#511)

Update available (for your knowledge)

And some more recommendations to make you go «Huh, I never thought of it this way!» (#510)

Weekly Filet Awards 2024

The best of the best of the year, in the most unglamorous yet heartfelt ceremony of the year.

The good news of 2024 you missed

And how to be a «hopeful skeptic» (#509)

The German word for what the hell is going on

And: the secret, magical life of lithium (#508)

Saving the world will be harder, and easier, than you think

And, unrelated: the search for the world's funniest joke (#507)

A celebration of changemakers

Also: Chasing a car into the future. (#506)

What comes next?

Plus: How to become collapse aware & How to survive the broligarchy (#505)

All Bets Are Off

And an update on the arc of the moral universe. (#504)