Hey friends, this is just a casual reminder that if you're following along via RSS, I've moved all new posts to Substack. [Here's a link to the RSS feed](https://eleanorkonik.substack.com/feed), although if you [subscribe directly](https://eleanorkonik.substack.com/welcome) via email it's a little easier for me to port your information over if I ever switch hosts again 🙃 Here's what you may have missed! - A [Reading Roundup on Intellectual Endurance](https://eleanorkonik.substack.com/p/reading-roundup-on-intellectual-endurance) and other interesting topics I read about while on maternity leave. - An essay with lots of [takeaways on efficiency, passive learning, and optimization](https://eleanorkonik.substack.com/p/takeaways-on-efficiency-passive-learning). - An analysis of [the difficulty of being pithy](https://eleanorkonik.substack.com/p/observations-on-connecting-creators) when describing things, particularly when naming note titles, books, and publications. - 7 "insights to prompt our writing" showcasing several "work in progress" essays and quotes from the longform articles that inspired them, aimed at showing how I go from "interesting quote" to "longform article." And, of course, longform articles on nerdy history topics: [🎓 On Sacrifice: the real kind, with corpses](https://eleanorkonik.substack.com/p/on-sacrifice-the-real-kind-with-bodies) [An investigation of historic rituals involving the killing of humans. Why is this even a thing?](https://eleanorkonik.substack.com/p/on-sacrifice-the-real-kind-with-bodies) [Obsidian IcebergEleanor Konik](https://eleanorkonik.substack.com/p/on-sacrifice-the-real-kind-with-bodies) [🎓 Practical Religion: Ancient Rituals as ‘Vaccination’](https://eleanorkonik.substack.com/p/practical-religion-ancient-rituals) [Many religious rituals make practical sense. And the ancients had some pretty practical ways of handling plagues.](https://eleanorkonik.substack.com/p/practical-religion-ancient-rituals) [Obsidian IcebergEleanor Konik](https://eleanorkonik.substack.com/p/practical-religion-ancient-rituals) Next up is another reading roundup – micro-reviews of articles that give great recommendations for cognitive catalysts with ways to leverage lists and learning ;)