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Anu: Coolhunt, Before Sunrise, Why I Write, On the Street, Sartorialist, Truisms
The first film in one of the all-time great film trilogies. I love it for its near singular focus on great conversation, the most exhilarating thing in…
Jun 28
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Afra Wang: AI and Human Expression, Content Violation, Is AI Conscious?, Peptides but Necessary, Prophet
Welcome to a new issue of Words That Matter! Each week, we invite a guest curator to share the reading that matters most to them.
Jun 21
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Visa: The Information, Spiritual First Responders, Remix, Last Lecture, Chris Rock
Welcome to a new issue of Words That Matter! Each week, we invite a guest curator to share the reading that matters most to them.
Jun 14
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May 2026
Celine Nguyen: Afra Wang, All Good Sex is Body Horror, The Norway Model, Lena, On Giving Up
Welcome to a new issue of Words That Matter! Each week, we invite a guest curator to share the reading that matters most to them.
May 31
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Ben Springwater
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Celine Nguyen
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Sarah Sherman: Victory Lap, Mozzarella Sticks, Art & Fear, 8ball, Silence, Open Loops, Honey
I learned more about humor, voice, and whole-ass writing from this piece than anything else I have ever read. I also will never look at mozzarella…
May 24
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Sarah Sherman
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Polina Pompliano: Betting on Yourself, Status, Grief, Memory, Travel, Hidden Genius
Polina Pompliano is the founder of The Profile, an independent media company known for longform profiles of influential founders, investors, athletes…
May 17
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Bentham's Bulldog: Singer, Suffering, 500 Million, Why God Exists, Dilbert, Unweaving
Famine, Affluence, and Morality is one of the most influential works of philosophy ever written. It makes the case clearly that we have a duty to donate…
May 10
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Ashlee Vance: Belief, Lynch, Eden, Bobby Fingers, Gambler, Bliss of Excess
Welcome to a new issue of Words That Matter! Each week, we invite a guest curator to share the reading that matters most to them.
May 2
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Ben Springwater
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Ashlee Vance
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April 2026
Zohar Atkins: Mice, Miracle, Larry David, Poets, Separation, Tyrant as Editor
Welcome to a new issue of Words That Matter! Each week, we invite a guest curator to share the reading that matters most to them.
Apr 25
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Ben Springwater
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Zohar Atkins
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Cate Hall: Agency, Goddess of Cancer, Cat's Cradle, The Egg, Dream Mashups, Bukowski, Sasha
Cate Hall is the author of the Useful Fictions (Ben’s favorite Substack of the past year) and the forthcoming book You Can Just Do Things, co-written…
Apr 18
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Anna Gát: Bye Mom, Freud, Body Horror, 50 Things, Against Nature
Welcome to a new issue of Words That Matter! Each week, we invite a guest curator to share the reading that matters most to them.
Apr 12
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Ben Springwater
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Anna Gát
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Nan Ransohoff: Finding Things Out, Double Life, Matriarch, Inputs, Evil, the Beatles
Nan leads Stripe Climate and founded Frontier, a $1B+ advance market commitment for permanent carbon removal. Please enjoy these works and words that…
Apr 3
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