@longform_reads

longform_reads has been a member of Linktree for 2 years and joined in January 2024. Resources longform_reads has populated their site with include: • Subscribe to my newsletter for weekly recs • some parts of you only emerge for certain people • I Tried to Do It All in My 20s—Here’s What I Learned • How People Make the Most of Their Mornings • Decision paralysis: Why does it feel so hard to make choices right now? • Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media • The Social Benefits of Getting Our Brains in Sync | Quanta Magazine • Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI • So You Think You’ve Been Gaslit • The soft life: why millennials are quitting the rat race • “A fucking clown show”: how Vice’s execs burned down its newsroom • Can You Ever Really Escape Your Ex? • Is It Even Possible to Become More Productive? • A Digital Twin Might Just Save Your Life | NOEMA • we were told we could do it all, we couldn't • better sources of inspiration than pinterest • www.businessinsider.com • ‘I know someone who played noughts and crosses on one’: meet the top surgeon who burned his initials on a patient’s liver • Receipts. Proof. Timelines. Screenshots: Why we can’t look away from rich people drama • A utopian strand of economic thought is making a surprising comeback • Why it takes humour to sustain a long-term relationship | Psyche Ideas • These Kids Made Their Influencer Parents Wealthy. Will They See a Dime of That Money? • The Problem With Our Need to Achieve — TIME • Everyone's Writing Sounds the Same Now • Arguing Ourselves to Death • Is Beauty a Hobby? • The Universe Is Nothing Without Us • In the 2000s every female romcom lead was a journo. In 2024 there’s nothing romantic about that • on being a teenage girl in your 20s • For girls, silence is the bad bargain with patriarchy | Aeon Essays • What If Money Expired? | NOEMA • What the 5 love languages get right, and what they get very wrong • Disappearing tongues: the endangered language crisis • The future of humanism, from Toni Morrison to Nick Bostrom | Aeon Essays • Your brain needs a really good lawyer • The Best Small-Talk Topic • How to Have More Meaningful Conversations • We Have A Loneliness Problem And Book Clubs Are Stepping Up • Orion Magazine - What Happens When We Stop Remembering? • How First Contact With Whale Civilization Could Unfold • www.nytimes.com • Why we fear uncertainty — and why we shouldn’t • thehustle.co • Advice | A loneliness cure — make one friend a year — The Washington Post • The Socially-Conscious Mean Girl • AI Could Actually Help Rebuild The Middle Class | NOEMA • One of Our Best Websites Died While No One Was Looking • Confessions of an AI Clickbait Kingpin • The brain is the most complicated object in the universe. This is the story of scientists’ quest to decode it – and read people’s minds • TikTok’s "Burnt Toast Theory" Is All About Embracing Life’s Frustrations • The Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are and How Old You Think You Are • Flying Solo - Longreads • What you can learn from regret • The art of doing nothing: have the Dutch found the answer to burnout culture? • Rescuing the Rescuer: Saving Myself from a Lifetime of Hurt - Longreads • 'The Davos underground': A final take on the secretive parties of the world's rich and powerful • Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to. • Forty days lost in the rainforest: Colombia’s miracle rescue • Bathing should be a right in 21st-century cities | Aeon Essays • What attachment styles can — and can’t — explain • How to Embrace Doing Nothing • Feeling drained? Here's how to rediscover your childlike wonder • The Power of a Thin Skin • America is facing a 'fringe friend' crisis • we used to say BRB. now we just live here. • How We Lost Our Minds About UFOs • “High Maintenance To Be Low Maintenance” Beauty Is A Trap • The Perils of an Enormous Social World • The sun’s poles are about to flip. It’s awesome — and slightly terrifying. • Work, Anti-Work, and That Secret “Third Thing” • No, I Do Not Wish to Know You • www.wsj.com • When Do You Become an Adult? • Dating Apps Are In Their Flop Era • 162. Why do I feel guilty all the time? • I was Hypnotized as a Teen. Was it Dangerous? - Longreads • The Woman Who Can See 100 Million Colors • How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity • Inside the Music Industry’s High-Stakes A.I. Experiments • ‘My life will be short. So on the days I can, I really live’: 30 dying people explain what really matters | Death and dying | The Guardian • Who is etiquette for? • Shopping With the Sephora Tweens After School • When America First Dropped Acid • The Whale Who Went AWOL • A Single Small Map Is Enough For A Lifetime | NOEMA • When to quit • Where do billionaires come from? Mom and Dad. • The Juror Who Found Herself Guilty • The Woman Who Spent Five Hundred Days in a Cave • Playing the Pretty Boy: Ryan Gosling, Jacob Elordi, and More Redefine the Himbo • Climate Lessons From A Lost Land | NOEMA • 'As an Angry Feminist, Should I Let Go of the Dream of Marriage?' • Why Everything Is Getting Louder • Does language mirror the mind? An intellectual history | Aeon Essays • The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei • How plagiarism became the latest weapon in the culture wars • Leaving The Real World: How I Escaped Andrew Tate’s Get Rich Quick ‘Cult’ • I’ve Always Played It Safe In Dating — But Now I’m Living For The Plot • ‘Soul-warming’: the mystery man who chops wood to keep his neighbors from freezing • The friendship problem • The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same • True Crime, True Faith: The Serial Killer and the Texas Mom Who Stopped Him • The Scientist Using Bugs to Help Solve Murders • 'What Kind of Man Would Abandon His Family By Pretending To Be Dead?' - Longreads • The Rediscovery Of Circadian Rhythms | NOEMA • Will a Full-Body MRI Scan Help You or Hurt You? • An American Girlhood in the Ozempic Era • If One Part Suffers, by Michelle Orange • How is it possible to be loved and yet to feel deeply lonely? | Aeon Essays • Kierkegaard’s Three Ways to Live More Fully • Why Do I Feel Loneliest When I’m With My Family? • How to Want Less • We are different from all other humans in history • I Was Told No One Wants Fat Girls • Opinion | My Sister Was Murdered 30 Years Ago. True Crime Repackages Our Pain as Entertainment. • Held Together - The Atavist Magazine • Kurt Gödel, his mother and the argument for life after death | Aeon Essays • You Know It’s a Placebo. So Why Does It Still Work? • How Did Polyamory Become So Popular? • There’s more than one way to feel lonely • I’ve Entered My Boring Era & Couldn’t Be Happier • Maybe Don’t Send That Voice Note • When Philosophers Become Therapists • When Did Humans First Start Wearing Clothes? • The moral imperative to learn from diverse phenomenal experiences | Aeon Essays • You have one life. Do you really want to spend it looking at your phone?