research as a leisure activity

Learning something purely because it’s interesting—not to make money from it, not to turn it into a marketable skill—almost feels radical. It’s a reminder that curiosity doesn’t have to serve a purpose.

History often presents itself as grand, sweeping narratives—wars, revolutions, prominent figures that reshaped the world. But the tiny, easily missed fragments of peoples everyday life holds a different truth than what we’re used to seeing. In some ways, the search for these details feels like reaching back in time and keeping those voices from fad