Weekend Reads

Weekend Reads

Weekend Reads #456

A collection of cross-disciplinary thoughts, perspectives, and opinions

Jul 19, 2026
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Iconic: builders have converged on the application layer, agentic capabilities are now a top investment priority, and the economics are following. - Link
The Norwegian case for mediocracy - Link
Slop is just what you get when everyone consumes and nobody creates, and the cure is people making things again, which AI is unusually good at enabling. - Link
A tasteful GBrain - Link
The Odyssey - In Our Time - what has given the Odyssey such a fundamental position in the history of western ideas- Podcast
Insight Problems - Quirks of Human Intelligence - Link
Martin Picard’s Mitochondrial Theory of Mind - Link
The Paradoxical Psychology of Why It Is So Hard to Change - Link
In Search of Liveness - The common denominator of all our concerns - Link
Mary Beard on The Odyssey: It’s great, but where are Homer’s jokes? - Link
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