📦 #230 - Inneresting's 2025 Starter Pack
Review meets preview.
As we enter the new year, let’s take a look back at some of the most popular articles of 2024, and check out some topics we may cover in more depth going forward!
Think of this as one part ICYMI, and one part great email to forward to your friend who isn’t already a subscriber.
Evergreen answers to writers’ questions
Here are some of your favorite posts we resurfaced from johnaugust.com:
What you found most inneresting
We covered a lot of topics in the last year, and went on a few side quests.
Kathleen Schmidt questions existing beliefs about the way things are now for debut authors.
Knowing what a fictional character does for work can be a tool for understanding their character, shorthand for a personality characteristic, or a way to center the world of the story. April Henry offers a list of career options to consider if you need help brainstorming, including a list of professions that could be entitled to legal compensation for asbestos exposure.
Anil Dash has a series on systems of power including a look at how the ultra-wealthy think about money
A website that measures your vision when deciding whether a color is blue or green.
Rachel Kwon explores the fury generated by needlessly fancy/smart products that can’t even work as intended.
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Freya India on the concept of Gen Z and anemoia, “nostalgia for a time or a place one has never known.”
Anna Havron on making a useful table of contents and/or index for your notebook(s).
Nate Rogers wants you to know it’s not your eyes playing tricks: Regulators have failed to set meaningful limits on how bright car headlights should be.
And that’s what’s inneresting this week!
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