Long-form essays that use psychology, anthropology and personal experience to explain how attention, routine and shared meaning hold together or break down. Readers get reflective, conceptual pieces on topics like unresolved decisions, the cognitive function of rituals, and how experts handle overload.
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Economist Bryan Caplan's newsletter offers sharp, opinionated essays on social science, power, immigration, and public intellectuals, often built around experiments and debates. Readers get original arguments with a clear point of view, plus guest replies and analysis of how commentators express contempt and sentiment.
Personal essays on relationships, thinking, creativity and agency, written from a family life on a Baltic island. Readers get reflective, exploratory writing that works through questions such as why music moves us and how to get unstuck creatively.
Each issue explains one mental model, such as hostile attribution bias, design thinking through Brunelleschi's dome, or the law of closure, and applies it to the work of people who make things. The writing is vivid, historically grounded and draws concrete lessons for creators.
Conspicuous Cognition is a philosophy blog by an academic philosopher exploring motivated reasoning, social signalling, AI risk debates, and the psychology of virtue. Readers get long-form, argument-driven essays and podcast-style discussions that connect psychology, politics and evolution to everyday claims about belief and motive.
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