Alana Wu

on the atlas · 42

• Your Life in Weeks — Wait But Why7 savers
• Curius / Onboarding2704 savers
• house cats - by shani - skin contact1 savers
• San Francisco Sketchbook - by shani - skin contact4 savers
• 12 observations of people i know - by shani - skin contact1 savers
• Aliveness and where to find it - by Ben James - Ben by Fax1 savers
• The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same | | The Guardian1 savers
• How to Unclench | Jonny Miller23 savers
• Emotions Are Reactive1 savers
• Looking for Alice - by Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland94 savers
• X1 savers
• The quiet grief of adult friendship1 savers
• What we think is a decline in literacy is a design problem | Aeon Essays1 savers
• Yufeng Zhao2 savers
• "darjeeling" search - all text in nyc1 savers
• Pentagon Pizza Index - Real-Time Military Tension Indicator | PizzINT1 savers
• John Collison on X: "As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects." / X1 savers
• choosing friction | The Roof is on Phire2 savers
• The End of Thinking - Derek Thompson1 savers
• Viscerality - by Simon Sarris - The Map is Mostly Water14 savers
• Opinion | Migration Is Remaking Our World, and We Don’t Understand It at All - The New York Times1 savers
• Across the Natural World, Migration Is Sacred—and Critical | Atmos1 savers
• About Craig Mod — Bio and contact information2 savers
• Overtourism in Japan, and How it Hurts Small Businesses — Ridgeline issue 2101 savers
• Fascism For First Time Founders | Techdirt1 savers
• constellation of coincidences - by Spencer Chang1 savers
• you like books and think they are your friends - by Ava19 savers
• And Then There Was One - The Atlantic1 savers
• About | Ping Practice1 savers
• Sudowrite is hiring a Product Design Lead to reinvent writing1 savers
• They're Made out of Meat12 savers
• Trump, Mamdani, and Cluely - by kyla scanlon2 savers
• Williamsburg, Brooklyn: A Historical Timeline of the NYC Neighborhood - The New York Times1 savers
• A tale of two Vaticans (or, OpenAI building an unholy spirit)1 savers
• Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress - by kyla scanlon2 savers
• The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction1 savers
• How to pay attention9 savers
• There’s no speed limit57 savers
• Index - Asian Food Dictionary1 savers
• Stop postponing things by embracing the mess1 savers
• Willingness to look stupid20 savers
• sites with a /now page4 savers

highlights · 11

• The world is a museum of passion projects.

  John Collison on X: "As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects." / X

• slinking away into a state of incuriosity marked by less reading, less writing, and less thinking

  The End of Thinking - Derek Thompson

• quiet apocalypse of lazy consumption

  The End of Thinking - Derek Thompson

• For most people, the tragedy won't even feel like a tragedy. We’ll have lost the wisdom to feel nostalgia for what was lost.

  The End of Thinking - Derek Thompson

• The pleasure of detail is in your own concentration. The world has many versions of goosebumps.

  Viscerality - by Simon Sarris - The Map is Mostly Water

• What they mean is that it directly touches the senses. It has the thumb-print of life upon it.

  Viscerality - by Simon Sarris - The Map is Mostly Water

• Eating a boiled egg is 6 grams of protein and 5 grams of fat. Eating a boiled egg from a nice egg cup, with a little spoon, on a picnic blanket outside is a lusty experience.

  Viscerality - by Simon Sarris - The Map is Mostly Water

• Do we want to see the world as heavy and intimate, or do we want to see it as convenient?

  Viscerality - by Simon Sarris - The Map is Mostly Water

• the seemingly random string of items that I've plucked from the massive river of information that is life.

  constellation of coincidences - by Spencer Chang

• Refusing to view something as means to an end, being so devoted you’re thrust outside the usual calculus of value and optimization. That’s love: not expecting a return on your investment.

  you like books and think they are your friends - by Ava

• reading is just brushing up against someone else’s mind.

  you like books and think they are your friends - by Ava