
An academy for autodidacts and polymaths looking to build an intellectual life outside of school through serious reading and self-directed study.
| Platform | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly | |
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| Issues | 137 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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A few months ago, I looked back on the books I’d read over the last year.
Instead of feeling proud, I felt a sinking feeling in my gut…
For about 3/4 of the books I’d read, if someone were to ask me what the book was about, I wouldn’t hav...
The trick that always helps me restart my reading habit, 3 ways to apply it, and one principle of self-education to limit future slumps
I just got out of a nasty reading slump that lasted about a week.
Aside from my loved ones, nothing has given my life more purpose and satisfaction than a commitment to learning a craft.
When I was 24, working a sales job I hated and partying away my weekends, the decision to throw the full weight of my...
I was alternately frightened and inspired by the books I read last month.
The biographies of two great thinkers—Edison and Rousseau—taught me a lot about how to study (and live) in a way that makes creative insight inevitable.
Meanwhile...
4 lessons from Jean Jacques Rousseau’s self-education and quarter-life crisis
“My mind wants to go at its own pace; it cannot submit to someone else’s.”
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I write about the art and tradition of self-education (aka autodidactism) to help you become a deeper learner, reader, and thinker.
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