WYSR : Why You Should Read

All things synthetic.

math lessons, creativity, deafness, drawing, non-Woke culture war takes, PTSD, personal reflections

A biased observer in America.

Utilitarianism, ethical veganism, culture war stuff, philosophy, morality, and more!

I help people think more clearly about relationships, agency, and creativity. I hang with our kids. We live on a windswept island in the Baltic Sea.

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

How to get Britain building.

Stories of agriculture, rural life, and the ideas driving innovation and progress.

A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.

Apprenticeship anecdotes and antics

Essays about buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.

EM Physician writing about topics specific and tangential to medicine, which could be anything.

The one newsletter you need. Period. Curated daily by the editors of The Wire

The history of technology and the philosophy of progress, plus announcements from the Roots of Progress Institute

Social science. Philosophy. Culture.

Discovering, creating, and inventing a better world through technological innovation, economic growth, and pro-progress culture.

We advance the cause of a free and open society.

Notes and essays analysing fashionable delusions, institutional cowardice, progressive ideology, and our algorithmic descent into unreason – how it works, who benefits, and why it persists.

The newsletter of Professor Steve Stewart-Williams. Evolutionary psychology, sex differences, nature and nurture, science, philosophy, and more.

Sam Harris is the author of five NYT bestsellers, host of the Making Sense podcast, and creator of the Waking Up app.

history of science, public health, and great books

Heterodox STEM is a collection of posts by heterodox thinkers in STEM fields.

Exploring innovation in health and medicine, and the institutions, incentives, and infrastructure that drive it.

Shear Force offers deep analysis of China’s industrial policy and manufacturing architecture and explores the structural prerequisites for a plausible American reindustrialization.

Improving the funding and practice of science

A weekly newsletter on poetry, art, music, photography and all things creative. Curated with love. Designed to inspire.

Exploring innovation, progress and achievement: a first-principles approach to everything that matters; combining history, epistemology, economics, anthropology, geopolitics, finance, philology, etymology and more... for, life is short, knowledge forever.

northseaanalytics.com Freelance Researcher

science and existential angst

Deep writing about biology.

A Substack by Rob L'Heureux (literally, The Happy in French) focused on how industry makes material progress happen across the worlds of bits and atoms.

Essays on biology, technology, interactive learning, and life lessons (plus whatever else I learn)

On Writing | A Return to First Principles