Leaderboards

Writer	Minutes Read	Top Article	Amount Earned
Venkatesh Rao	607 min.	Welcome to the World of Tomorrow breakingsmart.substack.com12 min.14 reads	$128.21
Ed Yong	2093 min.	How the Pandemic Will End The Atlantic30 min.31 reads	$126.69
Ben Thompson	1253 min.	Apple’s Mistake Stratechery13 min.13 reads	$112.28
Caitlin Flanagan	1689 min.	I’ll Tell You the Secret of Cancer The Atlantic10 min.28 reads	$106.38
Jessica Schulberg	371 min.	Kip Kinkel Is Ready To Speak HuffPost Highline82 min.4 reads	$99.52
Merve Emre	847 min.	Uncovering The Secret History Of Myers-Briggs digg.com50 min.10 reads	$81.03
Jill Lepore	1071 min.	The History of Loneliness The New Yorker15 min.14 reads	$79.94
David Cain	2166 min.	The Last Time Always Happens Now Raptitude.com6 min.36 reads	$78.95
Olga Khazan	840 min.	The Perks of Being a Weirdo The Atlantic8 min.26 reads	$68.94
Ava	3633 min.	Why does everyone I know have ADHD? (Part 1) bookbear express24 min.16 reads	$67.01
Sarah Everts	269 min.	Smell You Later: The Weird Science of How Sweat Attracts \| The Walrus The Walrus26 min.10 reads	$65.20
Edward Snowden	594 min.	Continuing Ed Continuing Ed — with Edward Snowden10 min.20 reads	$61.69
Charlie Warzel	1113 min.	Opinion \| Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole The New York Times Company11 min.24 reads	$59.63
Arthur C. Brooks	2235 min.	The Type of Love That Makes People Happiest The Atlantic6 min.51 reads	$58.74
Shannon Keating	1159 min.	The Time I Went On A Lesbian Cruise And It Blew Up My Entire Life BuzzFeed News61 min.16 reads	$58.43
Tony Tulathimutte	583 min.	The Feminist n 141 min.14 reads	$58.28
Matthew Yglesias	481 min.	The media's lab leak fiasco Slow Boring 23 min.7 reads	$54.82
Haruki Murakami	3079 min.	“Cream,” by Haruki Murakami The New Yorker27 min.27 reads	$49.70
Joe Pinsker	1735 min.	There’s a Better Way to Parent: Less Yelling, Less Praise The Atlantic9 min.34 reads	$49.05
Courtney Rubin	1002 min.	The Shocking Meltdown of Ample Hills, Brooklyn's Hottest Ice Cream Company \| Marker Marker30 min.14 reads	$49.04
Sarah Todd	271 min.	What ever happened to Sheryl Sandberg? Quartz26 min.9 reads	$48.99
Rachel Aviv	2692 min.	How Elizabeth Loftus Changed the Meaning of Memory The New Yorker49 min.13 reads	$48.87
Jesselyn Cook	472 min.	A Vaccine Or This Marriage: Conspiracy Theories Are Tearing Couples Apart HuffPost Highline18 min.15 reads	$48.50
Anne Helen Petersen	1657 min.	the diminishing returns of productivity culture annehelen.substack.com15 min.23 reads	$47.83
Sarah A. Topol	143 min.	Is Taiwan Next? The New York Times Company71 min.2 reads	$46.47
Jia Tolentino	2556 min.	What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away The New Yorker21 min.15 reads	$45.69
Sheelah Kolhatkar	731 min.	The Ultra-Wealthy Who Argue That They Should Be Paying Higher Taxes The New Yorker44 min.8 reads	$43.33
Nicolas Niarchos	137 min.	The Dark Side of Congo’s Cobalt Rush The New Yorker45 min.3 reads	$41.82
Thor Galle	666 min.	Why I Joined Readup blog.readup.com9 min.46 reads	$41.58
Lawrence Yeo	213 min.	The Nothingness of Money - More To That More To That10 min.21 reads	$41.37
Alexis Nowicki	119 min.	I’ve Always Suspected “Cat Person” Was Based on My Life. Now I Know It Was. Slate23 min.5 reads	$40.93
Kevin Simler	288 min.	Social Status: Down the Rabbit Hole \| Melting Asphalt meltingasphalt.com31 min.9 reads	$40.31
Nicholas Thompson	1469 min.	To Run My Best Marathon at Age 44, I Had to Outrun My Past WIRED38 min.18 reads	$40.12
Derek Thompson	1648 min.	Why You Should Wait Out the Wild Housing Market The Atlantic6 min.46 reads	$39.79
LESLIE JAMISON	883 min.	On female rage. The New York Times Company24 min.11 reads	$39.49
Casey Newton	1593 min.	Facebook moderators break their NDAs to expose desperate working conditions The Verge34 min.16 reads	$39.26
Malcolm Gladwell	1796 min.	The Dead Zone The New Yorker51 min.19 reads	$39.08
Kelly Barrett	309 min.	The beauty of a primal scream Mailchimp Newsletter7 min.11 reads	$38.67
Gregory Barber	228 min.	The Lithium Mine Versus the Wildflower WIRED32 min.7 reads	$38.42
Sung J. Woo	1012 min.	Why I’m too selfish to have children Vox11 min.27 reads	$38.11
Patricia Lockwood	492 min.	The Communal Mind · LRB 21 February 2019 London Review of Books37 min.8 reads	$38.04
Ronan Farrow	1010 min.	Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare The New Yorker60 min.9 reads	$37.94
Alex von Tunzelmann	117 min.	The toppling of Saddam’s statue: how the US military made a myth The Guardian23 min.5 reads	$37.71
Jenny Kleeman	167 min.	‘My son was shaking, trying not to go online’: how the gambling industry got its claws into children The Guardian20 min.8 reads	$37.35
Andy Greenberg	406 min.	They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War WIRED32 min.5 reads	$37.03
Debbie Urbanski	184 min.	Inheritance \| Debbie Urbanski \| Issue 546 \| The Sun Magazine The Sun Magazine30 min.6 reads	$36.76
Tim Urban	4608 min.	Why Bugs Ruin Everything — Wait But Why Wait But Why18 min.19 reads	$35.31
Jonathan Zittrain	230 min.	The Internet Is Rotting The Atlantic34 min.6 reads	$35.20
Roxane Gay	456 min.	Public Safety by Paul Rousseau The Audacity.19 min.19 reads	$34.00
Shakti Shetty	1837 min.	Short questions, long answers Shaktian Space13 min.11 reads	$33.89
Morgan Housel	3215 min.	Three Big Things: The Most Important Forces Shaping the World Collaborative Fund23 min.22 reads	$32.94
Yascha Mounk	378 min.	Omicron Is the Beginning of the End The Atlantic6 min.42 reads	$32.47
Amirah Mercer	131 min.	How I Found Empowerment in the the Black History of Plant-Based Diets Eater32 min.4 reads	$31.60
John Cassidy	164 min.	Is the Plunge in the Nasdaq and Bitcoin the End of a “Superbubble”? The New Yorker7 min.3 reads	$31.49
Adam Grant	157 min.	Opinion \| Post-Covid Happiness Comes in Groups The New York Times Company7 min.7 reads	$31.47
Nicholas Carr	338 min.	How to Fix Social Media thenewatlantis.com35 min.7 reads	$30.90
MATT FLEGENHEIMER	373 min.	Joe Rogan Is Too Big to Cancel The New York Times Company24 min.11 reads	$30.67
James Bridle	77 min.	[Essay] Known Unknowns \| New Dark Age by James Bridle \| Harper's Magazine harpers.org14 min.3 reads	$30.36
Jack Thomas	328 min.	I just learned I only have months to live. This is what I want to say BostonGlobe.com14 min.22 reads	$30.26
Lauren Oyler	584 min.	Discovery The Atlantic24 min.9 reads	$30.23
Olivia Carville	142 min.	Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares Go Away Bloomberg27 min.5 reads	$29.89
Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business	103 min.	Walgreens replaced some fridge doors with screens. And some shoppers absolutely hate it - CNN CNN5 min.11 reads	$29.83
TAFFY BRODESSER-AKNER	946 min.	A 40-Something Looks Back at ‘Thirtysomething’ The New York Times Company18 min.14 reads	$29.26
Laura Spinney	82 min.	The elephant vanishes: how a circus family went on the run The Guardian27 min.3 reads	$29.05
Ben Lerner	330 min.	“Ross Perot and China” The New Yorker21 min.15 reads	$28.62
Matt Taibbi	729 min.	The American Press Is Destroying Itself taibbi.substack.com21 min.16 reads	$27.88
BARI WEISS	515 min.	Why Joe Rogan's Spotify Deal Matters The New York Times Company12 min.27 reads	$27.84
Ania Spyra	229 min.	Shock Therapy Guernica22 min.10 reads	$27.78
Jenny Lumet	202 min.	Will Woke Go Up in Smoke? Vanity Fair8 min.22 reads	$27.26
Adam Bartley	551 min.	Change The Way You Read Online The Freelance Graduate Student7 min.9 reads	$26.99
Emily VanDerWerff	631 min.	How Twitter can ruin a life: Isabel Fall’s complicated story Vox32 min.13 reads	$26.94
Mark Manson	413 min.	Love is Not Enough Mark Manson10 min.29 reads	$26.93
Lauren Groff	444 min.	Birdie The Atlantic36 min.8 reads	$26.83
Aaron Z. Lewis	567 min.	You can handle the post-truth: a pocket guide to the surreal internet aaronzlewis.com22 min.15 reads	$26.68
William Langewiesche	469 min.	What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane The Atlantic54 min.7 reads	$26.57
Jay Vidyarthi	1257 min.	front row seats to our fragility — Attention Activist: Attention Activist8 min.35 reads	$26.35
Masha Gessen	758 min.	Alexey Navalny Has the Proof of His Poisoning The New Yorker23 min.15 reads	$25.73
Kaitlyn Tiffany	785 min.	Why are we still debating whether dating apps work? The Verge7 min.24 reads	$25.32
Justin Bariso	213 min.	Jeff Bezos's Viral Tweet Is Only 38 Words, But It Teaches a Master Class in How to Handle Criticism Inc.3 min.44 reads	$25.13
Sir Roger Scruton	171 min.	Dying in Time - an essay by Sir Roger Scruton - Notting Hill Editions notting hill editions28 min.6 reads	$24.84
Ian Bogost	792 min.	Every Place Is the Same Now The Atlantic12 min.21 reads	$24.56
Sirin Kale	1385 min.	‘It’s bullshit’: Inside the weird, get-rich-quick world of dropshipping WIRED UK20 min.62 reads	$24.54
Joshua Rothman	868 min.	What If You Could Do It All Over? The New Yorker23 min.9 reads	$24.25
Ted Nordhaus	118 min.	Why We Can't Leave Nature Alone — The New Atlantis thenewatlantis.com23 min.5 reads	$24.20
Rega Jha	332 min.	Hi, Dear Fifty Two (52)33 min.10 reads	$24.13
Allison P. Davis	744 min.	A Vibe Shift Is Coming The Cut11 min.23 reads	$23.91
Molly Fischer	802 min.	Who Did J.K. Rowling Become? The Cut38 min.19 reads	$23.83
Noah Smith	483 min.	Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes Noahpinion11 min.17 reads	$23.45
Robin Fasano	55 min.	How to Avoid Place Blindness \| Spirituality & Health spiritualityhealth.com3 min.13 reads	$23.13
Lisa Richardson	513 min.	How to Tell Your Husband You’re a Witch Longreads22 min.18 reads	$23.08
T Kira Madden	169 min.	Against Catharsis: Writing is Not Therapy Lithub16 min.10 reads	$23.00
Ricky Yean	98 min.	A Stop Asian Hate sign (Ricky Weekly #62) ricky.substack.com4 min.9 reads	$22.90
Peter Guest	326 min.	The impossible fight to save Jakarta, the sinking megacity WIRED UK25 min.13 reads	$22.90
TJCX	257 min.	Consume less, create more TJCX8 min.31 reads	$22.90
Jaya Saxena	359 min.	Times Square Margaritaville Resort Is an Unlikely Balm for a Restless Mind Eater23 min.12 reads	$22.87
Sabrina Orah Mark	962 min.	Fuck the Bread. The Bread Is Over. The Paris Review9 min.84 reads	$22.84
Richard Feynman	107 min.	What is Science? feynman.com35 min.3 reads	$22.75
Heather Havrilesky	801 min.	Why Marriage Requires Amnesia The New York Times Company11 min.21 reads	$22.69
Justin Irabor	554 min.	An African Skeptic's Guide to NFTs Craft Overflow10 min.26 reads	$22.56
Tomas Pueyo	1220 min.	Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now Medium26 min.23 reads	$22.49
NICHOLAS KRISTOF	1182 min.	The Children of Pornhub The New York Times Company20 min.35 reads	$22.39
Taylor Lorenz	695 min.	Stop Trying to Be Productive The New York Times Company5 min.15 reads	$22.38
Mimi Swartz	345 min.	Life, in Dog Years Texas Monthly24 min.14 reads	$22.31
apenwarr	169 min.	10 years of... whatever this has been - apenwarr apenwarr.ca11 min.15 reads	$22.23
Joshua Hammer	330 min.	The Sopranos of Berlin: A Brutal Crime Family and a Billion Dollar Jewel Heist GQ34 min.6 reads	$22.16
Stephanie Land	424 min.	I spent 2 years cleaning houses. What I saw makes me never want to be rich. Vox8 min.48 reads	$22.16
André Aciman	217 min.	Are You Listening? The New Yorker19 min.11 reads	$22.14
Lisa Miller	585 min.	Disarming Myself The Cut8 min.26 reads	$21.54
Annie Murphy Paul	116 min.	How Humans Think When They Think As Part of a Group WIRED19 min.6 reads	$21.52
James Somers	759 min.	Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems « the jsomers.net blog jsomers.net5 min.39 reads	$21.44
Ben Dolnick	581 min.	Why You Should Start Binge-Reading Right Now The New York Times Company5 min.36 reads	$21.43
Annalee Newitz	819 min.	Here's why Substack's scam worked so well The Hypothesis11 min.23 reads	$21.37
Kelly Sundberg	225 min.	Some People Flip Real Estate. I Flip Men. The New York Times Company7 min.29 reads	$21.27
Jakub Stachurski	26 min.	The New Uncanny Valley ribbonfarm12 min.2 reads	$21.10
A.J. Jacobs	1195 min.	I Think You're Fat Esquire24 min.48 reads	$21.07
Ryu Spaeth	134 min.	The Painful Price of Becoming Jackie Chan New Republic14 min.9 reads	$20.94
Ann Hiatt	265 min.	Jeff Bezos hired this Amazon applicant ‘on the spot’—here are the 2 interview questions he asked CNBC6 min.43 reads	$20.93
Sarah Fay	114 min.	On Solitude (and Isolation and Loneliness [and Brackets]) Longreads28 min.4 reads	$20.71
Andrew Sullivan	452 min.	Is There Still Room for Debate? Science of Us15 min.16 reads	$20.67
Tim O’Reilly	123 min.	The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It? O'Reilly Media33 min.2 reads	$20.65
Dana Ward	48 min.	A Kentucky of Mothers - PEN America PEN America23 min.2 reads	$20.65
Vladimir Nabokov	692 min.	Symbols and Signs The New Yorker12 min.22 reads	$20.59
Jeff Goodell	456 min.	Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica Could Collapse Soon: New Research Rolling Stone11 min.21 reads	$20.58
John McWhorter	573 min.	THE ELECT: THE THREAT TO A PROGRESSIVE AMERICA FROM ANTI-BLACK ANTIRACISTS It Bears Mentioning34 min.11 reads	$20.37
Matthew Butterick	69 min.	Beautiful Racket: Why I no longer contribute to Racket beautifulracket.com16 min.4 reads	$20.27
Lindsay Zoladz	106 min.	On 'Sour,' Olivia Rodrigo Is A Lowercase Girl With Caps-Lock Feelings NPR.org15 min.4 reads	$19.86
Akhil Sharma	402 min.	Fiction: Cosmopolitan The Atlantic50 min.8 reads	$19.70
Gabriel Nicholas	268 min.	The Crypto Family Farm Logic Magazine20 min.13 reads	$19.65
Kevin Koczwara	235 min.	Shipwrecked: A Shocking Tale of Love, Loss, and Survival in the Deep Blue Sea Boston Magazine26 min.9 reads	$19.62
Abhishek Chakraborty	1039 min.	Via Negativa: The Process of Making Good Decisions By Eliminating Bad Ones @coffeeandjunk6 min.26 reads	$19.49
Elizabeth Bruenig	109 min.	Dead Man Living The Atlantic22 min.3 reads	$19.48
Damon Linker	211 min.	The politics of loneliness theweek.com6 min.27 reads	$19.44
Morgan Smith	155 min.	You're drinking your coffee wrong—these 3 tricks can boost your productivity, experts say CNBC4 min.21 reads	$19.32
Kara Swisher	336 min.	No More Phones and Other Tech Predictions for the Next Decade The New York Times Company6 min.7 reads	$19.30
Yuval Noah Harari	1048 min.	Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus Financial Times15 min.24 reads	$19.30
Maria Popova	696 min.	How Kepler Invented Science Fiction and Defended His Mother in a Witchcraft Trial While Revolutionizing Our Understanding of the Universe The Marginalian40 min.4 reads	$19.15
Rhana Natour	202 min.	Noor Salman, Wife of the Pulse Nightclub Gunman, Is Ready to Speak Vice28 min.7 reads	$19.05
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai	91 min.	Inside The ‘World’s Largest’ Video Game Cheating Empire Vice17 min.4 reads	$18.90
Annie Lowrey	214 min.	Millennials Don’t Stand a Chance The Atlantic6 min.5 reads	$18.90
Hannah Fry	120 min.	What Data Can’t Do The New Yorker19 min.4 reads	$18.84
Emma Green	453 min.	The Liberals Who Can’t Quit Lockdown The Atlantic12 min.27 reads	$18.80
Ryan Holiday	450 min.	How Does It Feel To Get Everything You Ever Wanted? - RyanHoliday.net RyanHoliday.net9 min.23 reads	$18.72
Anne Applebaum	456 min.	The Bad Guys Are Winning The Atlantic44 min.8 reads	$18.69
Seth Godin	536 min.	Why the blockchain matters Seth's Blog5 min.19 reads	$18.50
Eli Saslow	593 min.	‘What are we so afraid of?’ washingtonpost8 min.26 reads	$18.46
Ken Bensinger	293 min.	Gov. Whitmer Kidnapping Suspects Claim Entrapment BuzzFeed News52 min.5 reads	$18.44
Jessica Garrison	264 min.	Gov. Whitmer Kidnapping Suspects Claim Entrapment BuzzFeed News52 min.5 reads	$18.44
Yanis Varoufakis	39 min.	Bitcoin and the dangerous fantasy of ‘apolitical’ money - Yanis Varoufakis Yanis Varoufakis16 min.2 reads	$18.29
Brendan Foht	40 min.	Why Scientists Can’t Be Trusted to Self-Regulate Human-Monkey Chimeras thenewatlantis.com16 min.2 reads	$18.29
Anna Wiener	1008 min.	Is Substack the Media Future We Want? The New Yorker27 min.10 reads	$18.26
Ezra Klein	502 min.	Opinion \| What the Rich Don’t Want to Admit About the Poor The New York Times Company8 min.11 reads	$18.26
James Hamblin	786 min.	You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus The Atlantic16 min.30 reads	$18.15
Amanda Mull	973 min.	The Nasty Logistics of Returning Your Too-Small Pants The Atlantic16 min.13 reads	$17.94
Alex Riley	60 min.	The seed of suffering Aeon19 min.3 reads	$17.91
Claire McNear	56 min.	Mike Richards’s Rise to ‘Jeopardy!’ Host Sparks Questions About Past The Ringer28 min.2 reads	$17.80
Matthew Salesses	131 min.	Matthew Salesses: Holding it Together, Falling Apart Lithub8 min.15 reads	$17.40
Andrew Murray Dunn	98 min.	The Path of The Humane Technologist 📚⚙ - Andrew Murray Dunn - Medium Andrew Murray Dunn13 min.3 reads	$17.17
David Brooks	1697 min.	The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake The Atlantic49 min.10 reads	$17.16
Amanda Hess	620 min.	The Wing Is a Women’s Utopia. Unless You Work There. The New York Times Company27 min.9 reads	$17.11
SUSAN DOMINUS	95 min.	The Voice of God. (And Knausgaard, Whitman, Machiavelli … ) The New York Times Company19 min.3 reads	$17.04
Mark Hurst	96 min.	Cameras and con games: Silicon Valley’s demented fun house By Mark Hurst • July 16, 2021 creativegood.com8 min.11 reads	$16.80
Katherine J. Wu	137 min.	The Body’s Most Embarrassing Organ Is an Evolutionary Marvel The Atlantic11 min.4 reads	$16.77
Taylor Dotson	189 min.	The Danger of Fact-ist Politics — The New Atlantis thenewatlantis.com20 min.9 reads	$16.69
Anne Koller	206 min.	The Radical Healing Effects of Water Sonima11 min.18 reads	$16.69
Sasha Hupka	31 min.	Buy-now-pay-later apps target young, debt-laden consumers latimes.com10 min.3 reads	$16.69
Laura Zam	350 min.	I Hired A Sex Worker To Save My Marriage. Here's How It Changed Our Lives. HuffPost Highline10 min.33 reads	$16.58
Adrian H. Raudaschl	61 min.	The Simple Life of Humans Hacker Noon6 min.9 reads	$16.47
Sarah Miller	189 min.	Heaven or High Water – Popula popula.com22 min.5 reads	$16.28
Kerry Howley	63 min.	Call Me a Traitor Science of Us9 min.1 reads	$16.23
Sophie Elmhirst	297 min.	The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship The Guardian29 min.10 reads	$16.11
Alan Lightman	159 min.	This Is No Way to Be Human The Atlantic15 min.10 reads	$15.97
Coco Mellors	202 min.	An Anxious Person Tries to Be Chill The New York Times Company7 min.25 reads	$15.94
Great Pyrenees Club of Southern Ontario	149 min.	Great Pyr and Bear - a True Story great-pyrenees-club-of-southern-ontario.com21 min.7 reads	$15.93
Molly Frances	461 min.	My non-binary gender identity was a cope Molly Frances17 min.26 reads	$15.92
Gimme Serendipity	37 min.	The Internet is HUGE and search engines and social media are only showing you a tiny fraction of… Medium18 min.2 reads	$15.91
Gay Talese	1124 min.	The Voyeur’s Motel The New Yorker69 min.15 reads	$15.86
Ryder Ripps	135 min.	Why Bored Ape Yacht Club is Racist and Started by Neo Nazis gordongoner.com4 min.29 reads	$15.77
Apoorva Tadepalli	185 min.	Why Do We Look Down On Lonely People? The Atlantic7 min.24 reads	$15.76
Robert DiYanni	79 min.	How to gain more from your reading psyche.co26 min.3 reads	$15.70
NOAM COHEN	350 min.	One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia WIRED20 min.16 reads	$15.44
Jay Baruch	449 min.	Jonah Falcon, the Man With the World's Largest Penis, Answers 20 Questions About the World's Largest Penis Men's Health7 min.26 reads	$15.34
Seema Yasmin	104 min.	A Boy, His Brain, and a Decades-Long Medical Controversy WIRED24 min.4 reads	$15.32
Josh Constine	265 min.	Beware of 'ZoomBombing:' screensharing filth to video calls TechCrunch2 min.5 reads	$15.22
Laura McKowen	160 min.	How I Knew I Needed to Quit Instagram The New York Times Company7 min.20 reads	$15.14
Jenny McCartney	35 min.	The IRA's hunger for martyrs - UnHerd UnHerd17 min.2 reads	$15.03
Michelle Zauner	262 min.	Crying in H-Mart The New Yorker15 min.16 reads	$14.84
KU Leuven Stories	100 min.	Alumnus and social entrepreneur Arnoud Raskin: “I would rather have opposition than applause.” stories.kuleuven.cloud12 min.8 reads	$14.84
Lori Fox	314 min.	Opinion: I’m one of the service workers who left the restaurant industry during the pandemic. Serve yourself The Globe and Mail4 min.39 reads	$14.80
Clay Skipper	695 min.	The Most Important Survival Skill for the Next 50 Years Isn’t What You Think GQ13 min.20 reads	$14.79
Matthew Fray	159 min.	She Divorced Me Because I Left Dishes By The Sink HuffPost Highline9 min.16 reads	$14.73
Gail Cornwall	275 min.	The Two Reasons Parents Regret Having Kids The Atlantic7 min.33 reads	$14.48
Alexa Rohn	705 min.	Are we entering the digital dark ages? - Alexa Rohn Alexa Rohn9 min.33 reads	$14.38
Conor Friedersdorf	916 min.	Anti-racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart The Atlantic22 min.17 reads	$14.35
NELLIE BOWLES	1412 min.	A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley The New York Times Company7 min.22 reads	$14.29
Rebecca Jennings	555 min.	The BBL effect: How the Brazilian butt lift went mainstream Vox19 min.9 reads	$14.28
Martin Pengelly	260 min.	Jerry Seinfeld slams viral essay on New York City being ‘dead’: ‘Pull it together’ The Guardian3 min.46 reads	$14.26
Steve Paulson	255 min.	About Your Skin nautil.us16 min.15 reads	$14.21
Daniel Marans	62 min.	Meltdown: Iowa Unable To Deliver Caucus Results HuffPost Highline7 min.6 reads	$14.14
Wes Fenlon	291 min.	The metaverse is bullshit pcgamer14 min.20 reads	$14.06
Brian Resnick	258 min.	The Webb Space Telescope is 100x as powerful as the Hubble. It will change astronomy. Vox13 min.12 reads	$14.04
Terri Peterson Smith	29 min.	Minnesota's 'Root Beer Lady' Lived Alone in a Million-Acre Wilderness Atlas Obscura7 min.4 reads	$13.98
George Saunders	338 min.	The Red Bow Esquire22 min.3 reads	$13.97
Megan Rose Dickey	222 min.	All 84 startups from Y Combinator's S19 Demo Day 1 TechCrunch30 min.2 reads	$13.94
Shoshana Zuboff	12 min.	Opinion \| You Are the Object of Facebook’s Secret Extraction Operation The New York Times Company13 min.0 reads	$13.94
LISA FELDMAN BARRETT	457 min.	Your Brain Is Not for Thinking The New York Times Company4 min.49 reads	$13.94
Ben Werdmuller	128 min.	Enough is enough. It’s time to support startups that respect our rights. Medium7 min.5 reads	$13.77
Katherine Eban	784 min.	The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins Vanity Fair61 min.11 reads	$13.75
Ian Fritz	150 min.	What I Learned While Eavesdropping on the Taliban The Atlantic11 min.13 reads	$13.62
Rebecca Solnit	583 min.	'The impossible has already happened': what coronavirus can teach us about hope The Guardian20 min.14 reads	$13.41
KEVIN ROOSE	862 min.	Welcome to the YOLO Economy The New York Times Company9 min.22 reads	$13.40
Anelise Chen	15 min.	Swimming in the Wild Will Change You The Atlantic15 min.1 reads	$13.26
Carmen Maria Machado	335 min.	The Trash Heap Has Spoken Guernica20 min.14 reads	$13.23
Brandon Taylor	195 min.	massachusetts holy ghost sweater weather17 min.10 reads	$13.20
K Oanh Ha	341 min.	Six Days in Suez: The Inside Story of the Ship That Broke Global Trade Bloomberg34 min.10 reads	$13.19
Matthew Campbell	385 min.	Six Days in Suez: The Inside Story of the Ship That Broke Global Trade Bloomberg34 min.10 reads	$13.19
Kit Chellel	341 min.	Six Days in Suez: The Inside Story of the Ship That Broke Global Trade Bloomberg34 min.10 reads	$13.19
Kevin Kelly	834 min.	68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice Cool Tools10 min.35 reads	$12.98
Jack Shuler	24 min.	What Those in Power Are Missing About the Opioid Epidemic The Atlantic7 min.3 reads	$12.98
Simone Stolzoff	160 min.	The downside of generous company perks and benefits Quartz5 min.8 reads	$12.91
Diksha Basu	27 min.	In India’s Covid-19 crisis, I’m mourning my grandmother — and India — from across the ocean Vox10 min.2 reads	$12.90
MARYANNE WOLF	241 min.	Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound \| Maryanne Wolf The Guardian8 min.26 reads	$12.87
George Packer	1001 min.	We Are Living in a Failed State The Atlantic15 min.21 reads	$12.84
Stephen Buranyi	289 min.	The mRNA vaccine revolution is just beginning WIRED UK23 min.11 reads	$12.83
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