For Colored Nerds - Thee Well-Read Black Girl, Glory Edim on Stitcher

It’s pedagogical. There is a whole genre of “everyone else is talking about the same 5 books here on tiktok but here are 5 other ones you should read and why.” I love how this helps these hobbyist readers deepen their understanding and keep learning.

Dwarkesh Patel's meticulously researched interviews have earned him praise from Jeff Bezos, Noah Smith, Nat Friedman, Tyler Cowen, and others. Shreeda Segan covers the 23-yeard old podcaster in her latest Meridian profile. "He approaches his episodes in a more personal way. He refers to a quote by computer scientist Donald Knuth, 'A program is

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"My site is really a record of my becoming who I am. I started so early in my 20s. I didn’t know who I was. I wasn’t doing that much reading then. And it eventually became that. Right now, I rarely read the internet at all. I spend most of my days buried in book piles and letters and diaries and old philosophy books and what not. There’s this term ... See more

“To her, every book was an account of her own life, and in reading she came to life; for the first time, she came out of her shell; she learned to talk about herself; and with each book she had more ideas on the subject. Little by little, I learned something about her.”

Writing is often considered an individualistic enterprise, but journalism is a collective endeavor. And that is the paradox of Substack: it’s a way out of a newsroom—and the racism or harassment or vulture-venture capitalism one encountered there—but it’s all the way out, on one’s own

Brown also built upon Audre Lorde’s “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” (1984), declaring, “I believe conversation is not a master’s tool. I believe being in a circle, in a community, is not a master’s tool.” Here, she describes gathering people to share stories as a web, a network, as a finding aid for like-minded voices.