List: Favorites | Curated by Adrienne Tullos

Mar 4, 2025
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Favorites 
Clive Thompson
A Quick Primer on “Rewilding Your Attention”Highlights from my Medium Day talk on how I decouple my brain from social-media feeds
Aug 13, 2023
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Aug 13, 2023
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Amanda Linehan
How INFP Productivity Is Like Bowling Alley BumpersStay out of the gutter.
Apr 17, 2023
Apr 17, 2023
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Prism & Pen
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Alex Mell-Taylor
Camp (Usually) Doesn't Win Awards & It's HomophobicUnpacking the politics of which media is and isn't serious
Apr 4, 2024
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Apr 4, 2024
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Ryan Tripp
The Perks of Being a Capable NoviceLetting go of perfect to make room for something better
Mar 31, 2024
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Mar 31, 2024
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Brain Labs
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T. Kent Jones
Cassette Tapes, Flip Phones, and ‘Perfect Days’Visions of a no-fi, unplugged utopia
Feb 20, 2024
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Feb 20, 2024
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Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs
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RyanE
Living in a Poor City Fucking RocksI don’t recommend living by wealthy people
Sep 28, 2023
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Sep 28, 2023
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Human Parts
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Devon Price
Laziness Does Not ExistPsychological research is clear: when people procrastinate, there's usually a good reason
Mar 23, 2018
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Mar 23, 2018
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Jane Austen’s Wastebasket
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Kyrie Gray
Popular Urban Legends Rewritten So the Women Behave RealisticallyFollowing your gut is bad for story plots but great if you want to live
Oct 9, 2023
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Oct 9, 2023
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Clive Thompson
Why Spreadsheets Are The Biggest Gateway To CodingOr, why “=SUM()” is the most common “hello, world” in history
Aug 25, 2023
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Aug 25, 2023
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Alex Ashton
Try That in a Small Town: A Review From an Actual Small Town NativeI grew up in a small town that had 18,000 people by the time I moved away as an adult in 2005.
Jul 24, 2023
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Jul 24, 2023
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Cultured
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Dr. Allison Wiltz
Black Women Living a Soft Life Should Be Accepted, Not QuestionedA personal essay about the pressures Black women face
Apr 22, 2023
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Apr 22, 2023
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Clive Thompson
How I Research A New SubjectThere’s no magic bullet. It’s mostly about sheer, dogged persistence
Feb 28, 2023
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Feb 28, 2023
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Cuepoint
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Alanis Morissette
Jagged Little Pill: An EssayAlanis Morissette looks back on the creation of her smash debut twenty years later
Nov 9, 2015
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Nov 9, 2015
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Lani Payton
The Miracle of Self-Care in 2023Hello, fellow internet addicts. Yes, I see you. The ache in your back, the squinted eyes and the knowledge you should probably be doing…
Jan 19, 2023
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Jan 19, 2023
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Human Parts
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Stephanie Georgopulos
Coming Out as Biracial
Oct 21, 2013
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Oct 21, 2013
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Clive Thompson
The Power of the “Two Shot” In Nonfiction WritingTalking to someone is interesting. Watching them do something, even more so
Dec 28, 2022
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Dec 28, 2022
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