Oct 30, 2025
The Hatred of Podcasting | Brace Belden
thebaffler.com · curated by @thejklee
Essay by Brace Belden critiquing the cultural rise and backlash against podcasting from 2015 to 2025.
37 ATTN
The best of AUX
culture · October 2025
12 culture links earned a place on the AUX Mainstage.
Top culture curators- Oct 24, 2025
The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz
harpers.org · curated by @essen
Longform essay exploring loneliness, pornography trends, and technologies shaping compulsive masturbation culture.
38 ATTN - Oct 24, 2025
THEORY OF THE NETWORKED INDIVIDUAL #1
chrismarino.substack.com · curated by @knownquantity
Longform essay exploring a theory of the 'networked individual' and how private, social, public, and transcendent spheres interrelate.
35 ATTN - Oct 23, 2025
Dr. Mike Israetel: Seed Oils, Testosterone and Capitalism | Doomscroll
youtu.be · curated by @schlomo
Conversation with Dr. Mike Israetel on seed oils, endocrine disruptors, testosterone, Soviet upbringing, libertarian views and links between fitness and politics.
31 ATTN - Oct 19, 2025
Personal Business | Are.na Editorial
are.na · curated by @gentlycarved
Editorial essay on Are.na exploring the idea that projects and work should start from personal interests and connections.
15 ATTN - Oct 14, 2025
Life is a Game and the Bad Guys are Winning
open.substack.com · curated by @nick
Longform essay exploring Gnostic ideas and spiritual perspectives for interpreting modern life.
16 ATTN - Oct 12, 2025
Prediction: the Successor to Postmodernism
open.substack.com · curated by @nick
Essay predicting the intellectual movement that will succeed postmodernism and outlining its features and implications.
52 ATTN - Oct 10, 2025
Ortega hypothesis - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org · curated by @maeve1620
A Wikipedia article describing the Ortega hypothesis: the claim that many modest scientific contributions are essential to major advances.
25 ATTN - Oct 9, 2025
Proof of Effort
paragraph.com · curated by @knownquantity
Essay on the idea of 'proof of effort'—how showing work or progress matters in creative and professional contexts.
15 ATTN - Oct 9, 2025
The Man Who Inspired Back-to-the-Land Is Selling His Boat
cabinporn.com · curated by @_studiomishki_
Profile of Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalog creator, selling his 64-foot wooden boat Mirene; reflects on his back-to-the-land influence.
22 ATTN - Oct 3, 2025
The Non-Zero-Sum Game of Ambition
investing101.substack.com · curated by @knownquantity
Substack essay about ambition as a non-zero-sum trait and its broad impact on careers, markets, and society.
11 ATTN - Oct 1, 2025
Money Is Not Our God
paragraph.com · curated by @catra
Essay arguing society confuses wealth with leadership and that money is a tool, not a source of meaning or authority.
42 ATTN