The reading list
187 essays worth reading
Writing that kept mattering — some of it from last year, some from 1729. Pick a section, open anything that looks good, and save it to listen to later.
How software actually gets built, and what it did to everything else.
Work, mortality, ambition, and what a life is supposed to add up to.
Companies, markets, money, and the people who move them.
Why people believe things, want things, and get things wrong.
Status, attention, and the shapes the network pushed us into.
Physics, biology, and the pleasure of understanding a mechanism.
How things got built, why they stopped, and whether they can start again.
The long magazine pieces — one person, reported until they are real.
Sentences, art, and the making of things that did not have to exist.
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