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Make senseEntangled Vale
There's little doubt tech is slowly becoming a regulated industry — but what does that mean, exactly? Regulation is political, messy and complicated, all about trade-offs between public goods that are often incommensurable. Shouty catch-cries to 'break up Big Tech' don't help much; this is
ImagineEntangled Vale
An enjoyable look back at the most-Shazam'd songs over 20 years, along with some other notable and surprising stats from the music-discovery service that quietly became part of everyone's phone.
ImagineHearthlands
A tongue-in-cheek tool for generating one of those bloated, hyper-inspirational LinkedIn posts that make the platform such a thrill to be part of. Feed it a humble brag, set the cringe level, and enjoy.
✍🏼 "Are we still having fun?" - editorial by Danu 🎙 Still Curious Podcast - announcing a major quality-of-life update 🪧 Community Corner - Shout-outs and shareables from fellow grokkists 🍬 Snackables - assorted awesome links
ImagineEntangled Vale
A cute, simple website where you read the first page of a random novel — no cover, no author — to see if it grabs you before the title is revealed. I'm yet to meet someone whose problem is not having enough to read, but it's fun, and yet another reminder that one day I'll die not having re
WonderWild Margin
Cities are a confluence of social, spatial and structural activity that express the many dimensions of human life — and Dave Amos, the geekily excitable host of City Beautiful, is exactly the kind of person who geeks out about that. He makes enlightening video-essay case studies on public
ImagineEntangled Vale
Do you skip TV opening credits, or consider them part of the storytelling and, at their best, an art form in their own right? If the latter, the Working Titles series has online creators lovingly unpack the credit sequences of their favourite shows. I already loved the BoJack Horseman intr
Surprise meUnfolding Realm
Don't be misled by the title — intelligent readers will already sense it's the wrong question to ask. Instead, strap in for a wide-ranging, well-read essay that's basically an attack on the concept of intelligence itself, which the author sees as a category error: we equate intelligence wi
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👋You're reading Scholé Supplement, the free bi-weekly newsletter of Grokkist that celebrates learning as leisure and an end in itself. In this edition:
Surprise meWild Margin
Watch a lone, shirtless man dance ridiculously in a field — and then watch, in under three minutes, an entire movement form around him. Derek Sivers narrates it as a lesson in leadership: the pivotal figure isn't the leader but the first follower. 'If the leader is the flint, the first fol
Less aloneUnfolding Realm
A signature theme of my own podcast is that no-one is on Plan A in life, and the unplanned path often turns out to be more interesting. In CTRL SHIFT!, people who set out to create one thing end up creating something else — often something better. Start with the episode on the scientist wh