Tag Archives: worth reading

Worth Reading: A Guide to Surviving the Great Forgetting

Posted on February 13, 2026 by smellincoffee

My substack subscriptions have an obvious cluster concerning humanity and the machine — or more specifically, how modern technology, particularly devices and the omnipresent digital world, warp or distort humanity. I was fortunate to encounter The Shallows and Neil Postman’s … Continue reading →

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Worth reading: Smash the Technopoly!

Posted on December 19, 2024 by smellincoffee

From “After Babel”, a substack written in part by Jonathan Haidt. This is a guest post from Professor Nicholas Smyth, who teaches a course called “Ethnics and the Internet”. “One thing I’ve been learning is that opposition to smartphones and … Continue reading →

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Worth reading: “What’s Become Of Us”?

Posted on May 1, 2024 by smellincoffee

Freya India writes today on not only how social makes us feel, but how it degrades us as people. Over time I’m becoming convinced that our most pressing concern isn’t that social media makes us feel worse about ourselves. It’s … Continue reading →

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Worth reading: “A Time we Never Knew”

Posted on April 22, 2024 by smellincoffee

Freya of GIRLS, one of my favorite substackers, just posted an article on one of my favorite book-authors’ substack called “A Time We Never Knew”, on the wistfulness that Gen-Zers can experience when seeing videos of high school in the … Continue reading →

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Worth Reading: “The Turn”

Posted on March 20, 2022 by smellincoffee

Liel Leibovitz writes on no longer being able to go with the flow, and more importantly — on realizing the American left is no longer recognizable as a voice for the people. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-turn-liel-leibovitz Quotes: “You might be living through The … Continue reading →

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