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2026

The Semantic Press May 4 →

Reimagining Tocqueville's remedy to tutelary power in the age of AI

500 words · democracy · civic-technology · oozification · synthesis · paradox
Elon's million-dollar writing prize was of course a scheme Apr 19 →

On missions and anti-missions

the-best-internet-essays · institutes · telos · literary-culture · technology-critique · essay-architecture
Musings of a Writer-builder Apr 18 →

devBlog #1

930 words · devblog · essay-architecture · editing · evals · software · claude-code
The Signal in the Slop Apr 8 →

On curation

1957 words · the-best-internet-essays · curation · literary-culture · slop · essay-architecture · dead-internet · essay · attention-economy · quality · substack · timelessness
Buy my book Apr 3 →

100% of royalties go to the writers, judges, and 2026 prize pool.

425 words · the-best-internet-essays · literary-culture
We are big floating heads looking for our bodies Apr 1 →

A conversation with Tommy Dixon

2353 words · the-best-internet-essays · tommy-dixon · writing-psychology · essay · attention-economy · humanism · david-foster-wallace · ralph-waldo-emerson
Human-shaped sensemaking Mar 22 →

Why essays see what algorithms can't (the themes in The Best Internet Essays 2025)

3240 words · the-best-internet-essays · literary-culture · curation · attention-economy · slop · media-critique · timelessness · conspiracy · david-foster-wallace · substack
Winners of the $10k essay prize Mar 11 ↗

Congrats to Tommy Dixon and the 10 finalists in our new print anthology, The Best Internet Essays 2025

814 words · the-best-internet-essays · claude-code · ai-psychosis · analog · essay-architecture · essay · tommy-dixon

2025

The Babbling Idiot & The Tribe May 27 →

Did psychedelics guide human evolution, or is the Stoned Ape Theory just for stoners?

6425 words