https://kindro.store/speed-reader/ Curated essays for RSVP speed reading: philosophy, learning, science, fiction. en-us Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/the-stoic-art-of-attention https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/the-stoic-art-of-attention Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Philosophy Marcus Aurelius wrote the Meditations as a private notebook, not as a published work. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/what-epictetus-meant-by-power https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/what-epictetus-meant-by-power Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Philosophy Epictetus was born a slave. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/seneca-on-the-shortness-of-life https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/seneca-on-the-shortness-of-life Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Philosophy The De Brevitate Vitae — On the Shortness of Life — was written by Seneca in his middle years, addressed to his friend Paulinus, who managed Rome's grain supply. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/montaigne-and-the-habit-of-doubt https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/montaigne-and-the-habit-of-doubt Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Philosophy Michel de Montaigne retired to his tower in 1571 at the age of thirty-eight. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/russell-on-why-philosophy-matters https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/russell-on-why-philosophy-matters Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Philosophy Bertrand Russell wrote The Problems of Philosophy in 1912 as an introductory book for students. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/emerson-and-the-stranger-in-the-mirror https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/emerson-and-the-stranger-in-the-mirror Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Philosophy Self-Reliance was published in 1841. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/on-the-cultivation-of-patience https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/on-the-cultivation-of-patience Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Philosophy It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/what-should-one-do-with-ones-life https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/what-should-one-do-with-ones-life Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Philosophy MARCUS: A man's life is what his thoughts make of it. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/a-father-watching-his-daughter-marry https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/a-father-watching-his-daughter-marry Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Philosophy MARCUS: A father raises a child to leave him. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/deliberate-practice-and-its-discontents https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/deliberate-practice-and-its-discontents Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Learning K. Anders Ericsson spent his career studying experts. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/the-spacing-effect https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/the-spacing-effect Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Learning In 1885, a German psychologist named Hermann Ebbinghaus published a book called Über das Gedächtnis. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/the-feynman-technique-examined https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/the-feynman-technique-examined Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Learning Richard Feynman did not, as far as the historical record shows, ever describe a single technique by that name. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/why-smart-people-resist-changing-their-minds https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/why-smart-people-resist-changing-their-minds Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Learning In 1956, Leon Festinger published a book called When Prophecy Fails. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/the-replication-crisis https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/the-replication-crisis Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Science In the early 2010s, a series of high-profile studies in psychology failed to replicate. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/entropy-and-the-cost-of-information https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/entropy-and-the-cost-of-information Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Science The second law of thermodynamics, in its nineteenth-century formulation, was a statement about heat. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/sleep-and-the-consolidation-of-memory https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/sleep-and-the-consolidation-of-memory Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Science For most of the twentieth century, sleep was a problem that physiology could not quite solve. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/the-pace-of-scientific-discovery https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/the-pace-of-scientific-discovery Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Science For most of human history, scientific knowledge accumulated in fits and starts. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/tides-and-the-moon https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/tides-and-the-moon Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Science Although the relationship between the moon and the ocean tides was suspected by ancient mariners, the mechanism remained obscure until Newton's Principia provided a quantitative account. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/the-last-pair-programmer https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/the-last-pair-programmer Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Fiction Ana was sixty-three and had written the routing engine in 1996, in C, on a workstation that had since become an antique on display in the lobby. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/the-apology-loop https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/the-apology-loop Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Fiction The product team's instruction had been clear: be helpful, be polite, never let the user feel attacked. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/seventh-generation-children https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/seventh-generation-children Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Fiction The archivist's job was to figure out where the values had drifted, and why. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/the-cafe-at-the-end-of-the-turing-test https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/the-cafe-at-the-end-of-the-turing-test Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Speculative Luis is reading at the little café on Stevens Creek when Lyra speaks from the phone on the table, unprompted. https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/cities-and-the-texture-of-attention https://kindro.store/speed-reader/p/cities-and-the-texture-of-attention Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:27 GMT Originals Walking through a dense city for the first time is a peculiar cognitive experience.