Thing of Things

The art of noticing what matters. Finding and sharing the weird and wonderful patterns of the world

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad.

Start your day with pragmatic takes on politics and public policy.

I like progress and I want there to be more of it

sex, psychedelics, and social analysis

Shortform content for Inkhaven, where I post ~daily. The more casual and lower-quality alternative to my main blog, The Linchpin (linch.substack.com) Welcome!

Bestselling Science Fiction Author Cat Valente's Blatherings on the State of the World: Politics, Internet Culture, History, and Art

Miscellaneous thoughts as I figure out life

Reporting and commentary on civil liberties and the criminal justice system. Plus other stuff.

Newsletter for worldspiritsockpuppet.com, the blog of Katja Grace.

Teaching, tabletop, or whatever else I'm thinking about that day.

Serving God Better

The letters of Cicero, emailed to you on the day each letter was written. Now posting letters from Cicero's exile in 58 BCE!

The best of what's new at Manifold Markets

Story, history, and theory of story - from reading books to telling the story of history to reflecting on how story is told.

Underrated opportunities in science, technology, and society

publication announcements, writing tips, fiction reviews

Get the classic novel Dracula, emailed to you in real time as it happens.

Researchers Kinnon MacKinnon and Pablo Expósito-Campos explore detransition and gender fluidity issues from an scholarly perspective and give voice to those with a wide range of lived experiences.

Making sense of what AI means for the world.

Receive letters from the most deranged french nobles right in your inbox, everyday.

Cantankerous takes on markets, incentives, and human dynamics.

Welcome to Journey to the West (西遊記) Daily! You will receive a chapter from the book by Wu Cheng'en every two days in your email, along with the information relevant to understand each chapter.

A newsletter about law, liberty, and leisure.

Weekly summaries of popular posts from the EA and LW forums.

the food, travel, relationships, and day to day lives of aspiring Effective Altruists (and those adjacent)

My Substack for thoughts on philosophy and public policy