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The antidote to brainrot. Follow for a curated selection of the best writing, video, and podcasts from the Substack app. Tweets by @TorontoLinda

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Jun 20
For Father's Day weekend, six recent posts on fatherhood that readers loved: 1/ "When you become a parent, you meet your child. And then you meet your child again. And again, every day after that. You will never stop meeting your child." Derek Thompson @DKThomp's personal
On Being a Dad
From derekthompson.org
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Jeff Weinstein
@jeff_weinstein
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"The age of the solopreneur" by @stripe's in-house economist @ernietedeschi. stripeeconomics.com/p/the-age-of-t… and some of the charts to save you a click.
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Michael Easter
@Michael_Easter
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From my recent post Death By Optimization. We’re entering a period where the intense focus on health is probably making us unhealthier.
WellBuiltStyle
@WellBuiltStyle
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"Health practices, pursued beyond a certain point, stop making your life better." @Michael_Easter nailed it. Biohacking/Optimization Neuroticism Disorder This will be a thing in the next release of the DSM
Death by Health Optimization
From twopct.com
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"There is no greater time to do something than the present — for an opportunity may no longer exist afterward." @polinapompliano in The Profile shares reader stories of learning from shocking losses and dark moments
Readers Share the Startling Wake-Up Calls That Changed Their Outlook on Life
From readtheprofile.com
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The Culturist
@the_culturist_
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Easily the best way to stand out in 2026 is to read. 54% of US adults read below a 6th-grade level. Even elite university graduates are now incapable of reading a book from start to finish. The divide between readers and non-readers will define the next decade. This is why we
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Freya India
@freyaindiaa
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For young women today, life isn't about living a fulfilling human existence but about optimising ourselves for the market. We are very different from past generations. We are more like products than people. I wrote about how iPhones became birth control:
How iPhones Became Birth Control
From freyaindia.co.uk
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Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesias
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Modern urban planning as a discipline is obsessed with value-destroying ideas about setbacks, scale, massing, etc that are totally at odds with what popular — crowded places where space is at a premium — urban neighborhoods are actually like.
Against urban planning
From slowboring.com
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
@Noahpinion
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Why do some cultures embrace new, superior technologies, while others refuse to embrace them? This is one of the most important unsolved questions in all of economics.
Pizza wheels are bad, Japanese toilets are great
From noahpinion.blog
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From 2024, the blog post that became the basis for @catehall's book You Can Just Do Things: how to develop "radical agency"
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Read the post, How To Be More Agentic, on Cate's Substack, Useful Fictions: usefulfictions.substack.com/p/how-to-be-mo…
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"I don't really believe in guilty pleasures." @hunteryharris on the inspiration behind the name of her newsletter, Hung Up
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Jun 18
Open Tab: Hunter Harris 00:00 Pop culture and personal reflections 00:44 Nitehawk Theater and young Hunter 03:41 From NYMag to independence 08:59 Embracing uncertainty and career shifts 10:13 Profiling celebreties 12:43 Balancing personal voice in writing 17:04 Concerns about
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"Try only one time and wait for immediate results" - and nine other strategies to ruin your life
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Read the full post by Fransisco on his Substack, Tide: tidecultureandhistory.substack.com/p/how-to-ruin-…
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Divya Kukreti
@div_yahan
Jun 22
Some of the best essays I read on Substack last week.
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Dr. Vivek Murthy on watching Tony Hawk do a trick for the last time, and reflecting on how aging means watching doors slam shut
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Read The Weight of "Last Times" on Dr. Murthy's Substack, Staying Human: vivekmurthy.substack.com/p/the-weight-o…
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