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December 2022

Molly Mielke
Dec 29, 2022
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This subby’s dedicated to highlighting the amazing words my brilliant writer friends strung together this year. They’re all insanely talented and I owe them a lot. Here’s to another year of manic texting, rabid researching, cheetah-speed gdoc animal’ing, and lots and lots of word whittling. Enjoy the bountiful idea cornucopia below :)


Humans (alphabetized)

  • Anna-Sofia Lesiv: Criticizing Computers

  • Brie Wolfson: Notes on “Taste”

  • Devon Zuegel: What Startups Can Learn From Pirates About Compensation

  • Erik Torenberg: There’s Just too Many Damn Elites

  • Lea Degen: On Saving San Francisco and Getting Out of the Kiddy Pool

  • Linus Lee: Resonant

  • Nadia Asparouhova: Cultivating Agency

  • Nicola Buskirk: The Sugar Babies of Stanford University

  • Tyler Angert: Foundational Skills for Digital Creation

  • Santi Ruiz: Are Love and Partiality the Same Thing?

  • And finally, my fav 5 Mind Muds of 2022 (by yours truly)

    • Chapters: Some things I learned and was wrong about in 2021

    • Conviction: What is your relationship to reality?

    • Commitments: How do you frame freedom for yourself?

    • Critical: Are you being critical enough of your own self-criticisms?

    • Courage: Why are we so wimpy?


Media

  • Crucify Me by Brockhampton (song)
    RIP my boys but TY for sending off with this banger.

  • Get Light by Nas (song)
    Great party bop. More here.

  • N Side by Steve Lacy (song)
    Fav song of 2022.

  • Angelo Badalamenti explains how he wrote Laura Palmer's Theme in Twin Peaks
    Didn’t know I needed this context on one of my fav soundtracks but I did.

  • Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned by Kenneth Stanley and Joel Lehman
    Fun study that disputes the value of having objectives in entrepreneurship.

  • Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
    *Amazing* cliffhanger of a book packed with complex, highly hatable characters.

  • The Power Law by Sebastian Mallaby
    Hands-down best history of VC book — described in riveting and playful detail.


But a curiosity of my type remains after all the most agreeable of all vices — sorry, I meant to say: the love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

— Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche

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