ImagineEntangled Vale
🧙 Antidepressants or Tolkien?
A tiny web game that shows you a name and asks you to guess whether it's a Tolkien character or a modern antidepressant. Far harder — and funnier — than it has any right to be.
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ImagineUnfolding Realm
🐳 And Then He Threw a Whale
A boy throws his kite into a tree. To retrieve it he throws his shoe. The shoe gets stuck, so he throws another shoe. Then a ladder. Then a paint can. Then a whale. Oliver Jeffers' Stuck is a children's book with an impeccable sense of escalation — and a suspiciously accurate model of how
Grokkist Newsletter #84
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Make senseEntangled Vale
🎶 Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future
Adam Neely turns what could've been a cranky 'AI is bad' rant into a rich meditation on what music means — to artists, listeners and communities. A careful walkthrough of the culture forming around tools like Suno: why so many musicians recoil, why some lean in, and where the real stakes l
Make senseUnfolding Realm
🧠 Diseases of the Will
A century before your favourite productivity guru, neuroscience pioneer Santiago Ramón y Cajal handed out devastatingly precise diagnoses for what ails the creatively ambitious but motivationally cursed — six 'diseases of the will,' a lovingly savage taxonomy of minds that can't get out of
Make senseEntangled Vale
📸 Screenshot That Podcast Quote
A neat fix for a problem every podcast listener knows: you hear something worth remembering, but by the time you try to capture it the moment's gone. Screenshot your player (with a visible timestamp), email it in, and within a minute you get back the clip and a full transcript — no app, no
ImagineSoma Isles
🐑 What the Sheep Do While You Sleep
A cute and vaguely ominous short film that begins with the familiar ritual of counting sheep — and then lets the sheep grow progressively more surreal as sleep takes hold, each one a little more distorted than the last. It lives in that liminal drift where the mind does its strange work on
Grokkist Newsletter #83
A steady rhythm of curiosity and care, delivered every two weeks.
Make senseSoma Isles
🧮 Thinking Fast, Slow, and Super Slow
Kahneman gave us fast intuition vs. slow reason. Mathematician David Bessis gently rebels, pointing at what's missing: System 3, the inner bridge where intuition and logic learn to talk to each other. 'When my intuition tells me A and my reason tells me B… that's the moment to resort to Sy
Move meSoma Isles
⭐ Starling
An ethereal star-spirit journeys back to Istanbul for one final celebration — her birthday, with her grieving family. Tender and imaginative, the animated short follows her through winding streets and unexpected detours, holding a liminal moment between worlds where sorrow and love sit tog
Surprise meHearthlands
🐌 The Snail Farmer of London
A disgruntled 79-year-old is gaming UK business-rate exemptions by breeding snails in vacant office blocks (snails are molluscs, molluscs count as aquaculture, farms don't pay rates). That's just the start — there's a claimed mafia connection, an ex-con mollusc wrangler, and councils he ke
Move meMaker's Forge
🏙️ A Megacity Remade by Speed
In his photographs of Chongqing, Ximeng Tu captures both a rapidly changing skyline and the emotional terrain of transformation. Grand infrastructure looms over street vendors and stray stairways; green space yields to grey. In the gaps, he finds people improvising daily life in the midst