A history newsletter that revisits past technology panics, such as the 1976 computer-assisted Four Color Theorem proof, the 1995 SATAN security scanner controversy, and 1930s radio legal advice bans. It uses archival press quotes to show how new technologies have repeatedly triggered similar fears.
Website: https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
Long-form essays on the history of innovation and the causes of the British Industrial Revolution, drawing on archival research. Recent issues cover the salt trade, Scotland's outsized role in invention, and Tudor labour laws and trade.
A weekly newsletter that explains one mental model per issue through a detailed historical story, then ties it to creative work. Issues cover topics such as hostile attribution bias, design thinking and the Gestalt law of closure.
Personal essays and cultural criticism on philosophy, the arts and poetry, drawing on memories of record collecting, Dylan's religious turn, poems about Nazi atrocities, and pop-chart history. The writer mixes anecdote with close reading and historical research to explore what art and evil reveal about people.
Tomas Pueyo writes long-form explainers on AI, technology, economics, history and demographics, usually grounding current trends in historical context. Readers get framework-driven analysis, charts and sourced arguments, with some articles behind a paywall.
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