Good Articles

A collection of articles and blog posts that I like

• In Praise of Idleness – Bertrand Russell, Harper’s Magazine, 1932
• The String Theory – David Foster Wallace, Esquire, 2008
• Mysterious Circumstances: The Strange Death of a Sherlock Holmes Fanatic – David Grann, The New Yorker, 2004
• Frank Sinatra Has a Cold – Gay Talese, Esquire, 1966
• The Personal Analytics of My Life – Stephen Wolfram, 2012
• Why Books Don’t Work – Andy Matuschak, 2019
• Insulation: First the Body, Then the Home – Low Tech Magazine, 2011
• The Chameleon: The Many Lives of Frédéric Bourdin – David Grann, New Yorker, 2008
• Top Five Regrets of the Dying – Susie Steiner, The Guardian, 2012
• Take With You A Go-With-Me: Making Your Own Wisdom – Quentin Broughall, 2018