On a given night, you’ll find me teaching a beginning meditation class at the Zen temple where I live, fighting Kendo, serving tea, doing ceramics or with my face illuminated by a computer screen...
Family life is much easier when you can commiserate about the parts that are tedious, enraging, low-key awful, weirdly hilarious, blindsidingly sad and also sometimes totally fine and even a little fun. Never miss a piece content that might be...
Slow Boring is a blog and newsletter by Matthew Yglesias on American politics and public policy. The name comes from Max Weber’s essay on “Politics as a Vocation” where he writes that
You ever try to read a review, but all you can see are paragraphs upon paragraphs of spoilers by some human trying to sound smart?
Yeah, if you’re not a fan of that style of comics review, or if you’re just new to the world of comics and want...
What is this?
5ish is a newsletter by M.G. Siegler (that’s me) that aims to serve up five or so links to interesting content/places at a regular cadence.
Okay, but what about 500ish?
In a way, 5ish is a counterpart to 500ish, the site where I...
What you’ll get
—Curated links, with commentary and pull-quotes
—A weekly round-up of classics content
—Original humorous posts
—Content calls for Eidolon
—Posts about the writing process that can make you feel like you could become a better...
You will receive 2 daily mails on the coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic:
The most important headlines, with my personal comment.
A daily essay analyzing a particular topic of this pandemic.
You won’t only get data or news, but analyses to