Category: Blog
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The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century – The New York Times
More than 500 influential stars, showrunners and other notable names in the world of TV voted on the best series released since Jan. 1, 2000. See what they chose. — Read on www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/arts/television/best-tv-shows-21st-century.html
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Eternal Family | The Hidden-Gem Media Service
Eternal Family is an offbeat streaming platform presenting hidden gems from the past and surreal entertainment. — Read on eternal.tv/
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Commodified Intelligence | MOND←TECH MAGAZINE
An automation of general-purpose pattern matching and problem solving is scary since it’s a whole phase change: It automates “everything” which, at worst, leaves us in a world in which raw access to capital/compute is all that matters to determine your leverage. The thing that makes me especially squeamish about this is that there’s a…
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Treat your to-read pile like a river | Oliver Burkeman
this means treating your “to read” pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it). Coming at life this way definitely entails tough choices. But it’s liberating, too, as you slowly begin…
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Jimbōchō Book Town
I visited Jimbōchō today, a neighborhood that’s home to more than 100 used bookstores. Many sell only Japanese books, but some of them have books in Englis — Read on kottke.org/26/09/jimbch-book-town
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The Film Experience | Literature | MIT OpenCourseWare
This course concentrates on close analysis and criticism of a wide range of films, from the early silent period, classic Hollywood genres including musicals, thrillers and westerns, and European and Japanese art cinema. It explores the work of Griffith, Chaplin, Keaton, Capra, Hawks, Hitchcock, Altman, Renoir, DeSica, and Kurosawa. Through comparative reading of films from…
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How To Write With An LLM — A Final Ward
So: don’t let an LLM pick your words. Be careful not to let it trick you into thinking your first draft is better than it is. Then outsource all the most tedious work to the model. Your voice stays intact, but your work is faster, better, and less painful. One last thing. Don’t take all…
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The Powerful Connection Between Smell & Memory
Unlike the other senses, smell needs no interpreter. The effect is immediate and undiluted by language, thought, or translation. A smell can be overwhelmingly nostalgic because it triggers powerful images and emotions before we have time to edit them. — Read on kottke.org/26/09/the-powerful-connection-between-smell-memory
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Write Things Down – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Biological evolution is the slowest and most permanent form of learning, but it takes millennia; oral communication is like a context window, effective but lossy; actually writing things down is what made learning extendable and scalable. — Read on stratechery.com/2026/write-things-down/