A newsletter about human nature

Our Plain Sight

Ideas connect us. Understanding grows us. A weekly briefing on the stories we live — and the patterns hiding in plain sight.

A diverse community gathered around an open book, ideas rising as leaves and golden threads

What we explore

Quote, reference, and restack what makes us human.

Human psychology

How attention, memory, and emotion get shaped — and who benefits when they do.

Rhetoric in daily life

The quiet persuasion in a headline, a feed, a group chat. Named plainly, so you can see it.

How we behave online

The patterns that pull us apart, and the small practices that put us back together.

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I quote, reference, and restack essays that explore human psychology, rhetoric in daily life, and how we behave online and off.