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Edison Research finds podcasts now reach 58% of Americans monthly — which helps explain why Vox’s podcast network was worth acquiring at all

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There is a kind of blog with 500 readers that has more actual influence than one with 500,000 and the difference has nothing to do with content quality

The generation that grew up in the 1970s carries a rare kind of mental endurance, because they were the last children allowed to fail and figure it out unsupervised

Studies on regret suggest people are surprisingly good at making peace with their mistakes — it’s the things they never tried that tend to stay with them

Studies on narcissism suggest that high self-confidence and narcissistic traits are not the same thing — and researchers now have a surprisingly efficient way to tell them apart

A study has collected forty million responses for a question that may have no right answer: should a self-driving car sacrifice the few to save the many?

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Edison Research finds podcasts now reach 58% of Americans monthly — which helps explain why Vox’s podcast network was worth acquiring at all

blogging tips

There is a kind of blog with 500 readers that has more actual influence than one with 500,000 and the difference has nothing to do with content quality

The blog of weird Etsy products people couldn’t believe were real

I have interviewed 70 people in their 60s who have very few close friends, and loneliness, when it came up, often sounded less like missing people and more like missing the person you used to be around them

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Most people overestimate how fast blogging pays and underestimate how long the money can keep coming once a good post finds its audience

Everyone is telling you to start a Substack. Blog Herald has been covering this industry since 2003 — here’s what we actually think

A Substack writer with 20,000 subscribers laid out her seven-step growth framework. Here’s what it reveals about how the platform actually works in 2026

Writers who go quiet for months aren’t blocked — they’re waiting for the distance that turns experience into something they can actually use

The Ideas Room

Thought of the day from Ray Bradbury: “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture — just get people to stop reading them”

Research published in Psychological Science suggests we consistently underestimate how much strangers enjoy talking to us — and the gap is larger than most people expect

Behavioral science suggests people are held back from reaching out by a fear of intruding — but recipients, in study after study, report feeling something much closer to gratitude

A Pew survey of 6,000 Americans found that most people still call their mother first when life gets hard