“L.E. Mullin calls it a comic newsletter. It is really a running study of the psychology of creative work: resistance, envy, the fear of saying the thing plainly, the endless reasons not to start today. Four posts a week, short, written from practice rather than theory. If you have a project you keep not starting, L.E. Mullin is writing about you.”

“A retired educator with a maths background, writing about how instinct became narrative and how identity survives contact with a group. What makes it unusual is the method. Randy will render the same idea twice, once as myth and once as mechanism, and set the two side by side so you can see what each one does that the other cannot. It should not work but it does. Read her if you have ever suspected the split between science writing and storytelling costs us more than it saves. — Michal K.”

“A working psychologist who is honest about what his field does not know. Bloom will walk you through the evidence on a contested question and then decline to hand you a clean answer, because there is not one. That is rarer and more useful than it sounds. Most popular psychology writing sells certainty. This does not.”

“Psychology, status and social class, from someone who has seen both ends of it. Henderson went from foster care to Yale and Cambridge, and takes the research seriously enough to say when it does not match what he has lived. If you have read The Elephant in the Brain or The Status Game, this is what they look like applied to real questions.”

“A short piece every morning, built from fifteen news sources and not really about the news. Ward reads them and then looks for what sits underneath, which in practice means refusing the first interesting thing long enough for a genuine connection to appear. Forty years in tech and nearly sixty years meditating, and both show in how he handles a story. Read him if you want to follow the world closely without being handed someone else's alarm. — Michal K.”