Manuscriptions
Eleanor Konik, RobRoyInsightful lessons from history, science, & real life... aimed at autodidacts, productivity nerds, efficient thinkers & tech junkies.
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🎓 Why Successful Empires Preserve Divisions Instead of Erasing Them
I’ve always tended to imagine empires as steamrollers, imposing their cultural preferences (language, law, food, clothes) on everyone they conquer. The Romans made everyone speak Latin, the Brits got everyone playing cricket, that sort of t...
📗 Harpers Ferry during the Civil War
A lot of Civil War books I’ve seen around are about a leader, a battle, or a regiment. I picked up Chester G. Hearn’s Six Years of Hell: Harpers Ferry During the Civil War (affililate link) because I wanted to learn more about the history o...
📚 Neat Stuff I Read in April 2026
April was a busy month, y’all. I read a ton (Substack says this email may get truncated because of the length, sorry!), celebrated Easter with the fam, sent my son to my parents’ for a week and went to the movies with my husband for the fir...
🥘 The Konik Method for Making Delicious Food
Most months, I share neat stuff I read the previous month, write a lengthy review of a nonfiction book I learned from, do a deep dive on something I found interesting, and try to teach folks about one solid aspect of how I get things done w...
🎓 How Organisms Rewrite Bodies Without Changing Genes
When I wrote about how locusts cause famines, I included a quick aside about octopuses and water temperature. It was just a tangent: I was trying to explain phenotypic plasticity and my brain jumped to cephalopods (because I’ve never seen a...
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Professionally, I put note taking apps through their paces. For fun, I garden and share tips about weird history & obscure science. Two kids, as few parenting hot takes as I can manage.
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