Reads that don't have an expiration date.
Some articles stick with you long after you've closed the tab. This is my running collection of the ones I keep thinking about and sending to people, pieces from around the web that hold up no matter when you find them. If you've got some time and want something worth reading, start here.Life & How to Live It
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck — Mark Manson’s original essay, before the book. Still the best version of the idea.
- 5 Tenets of Negative Self-Help — The counterintuitive case for lowering your expectations in all the right ways.
- 36 Ways to Live Differently — Chris Guillebeau’s deceptively simple list. Worth revisiting every year.
- An Instruction Manual for Yourself — What it would look like to actually know how you operate.
- 10 Things Your Wife Needs From You — Straightforward and worth the few minutes it takes.
- How to Have a Mindful Conversation — The basics of actually listening. Harder than it sounds.
Productivity & Focus
- How to Spend the First 10 Minutes of Your Day — Ron Friedman in HBR. One of those small-shift pieces that actually sticks.
- 12 Powerful Habits I Have Stolen from Ultra Successful People — The title is worse than the content. The content is good.
- Bruce Lee’s Best Productivity Tricks — More interesting than it has any right to be.
- Forever Notes System for Apple Notes — A practical framework for building a note-taking system that doesn’t collapse on itself.
Food & Practical Stuff
- How to Use a Rice Cooker (for Rice and So Much More) — More versatile than you think. More useful than most kitchen guides.
- What the ‘Mediterranean Diet’ Is (and What Studies Really Say About It) — A calm, clear-eyed look at the research without the hype.
- My 14-Hour Search for the End of TGI Friday’s Endless Appetizers — One of the great pieces of food journalism. Pure commitment to a bit that becomes something more.
Culture & Media
- The Life and Times of Kiss — Chuck Klosterman writing about KISS for Grantland. Peak Klosterman. Peak Grantland.
- The Incredible, Untold Story of the 1975 KISS Concert in Hartland — Local legend. The kind of story that only exists because someone bothered to tell it.
- Metallica Is Forever — A Defector piece about what it means to still care about a band after all this time.
- Andor Is the Best Star Wars You Will Ever See — The argument, made fully and correctly.
- How Two Jewish Kids in 1930s Cleveland Altered the Course of American Pop Culture — The origin story of Superman, told as the American story it actually is.
- How Ezra Klein’s YouTube Makeover Points to Podcasting’s TV Future — Media criticism that’s actually about something.
Sports
- The 1980s Cardinals Were Uniquely Good (and Fun to Watch) — Whiteyball revisited. Would it work today? The Athletic investigates.
Technology & the Internet
- Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media — The New Yorker on whether Bluesky can actually pull it off.
- How to Delete All of Your Social Media Accounts — A practical guide for when you’re ready. Or just want to know the option exists.
Ideas & Belief
- Why Atheism Replaces Religion in Developed Countries — Nigel Barber on the sociology behind shifting belief. Calm and data-forward.
Politics & Power
- The Actual Conspiracy Theory Surrounding Trump and Epstein — Kate Manne cutting through the noise with precision.
- Announcing Project 2029 — A long-arc project about faith, doubt, and what comes next.