🔗 Finds #2

Hello everyone, and welcome to issue #2 of Finds — the articles, sites, and corners of the web I bookmarked this week:

📄 Articles

damninteresting.comThe King's LettersIn the 1440s King Sejong invented Hangul so ordinary Koreans could finally read and write. The aristocracy fought it for centuries precisely because its simplicity threatened their monopoly on literacy.

demarcation.substack.comWe're Bed-Rotting While the Wealthy Play Poor — A sharp read on how "bed rotting" self-care curdled from meme into symptom: the wealthy perform working-class exhaustion as an aesthetic, while lower-income teens with fewer alternatives are the ones genuinely stuck on their screens.

🌐 Websites / blogs

wood-database.comThe Wood Database~600 wood species with identification photos, mechanical properties, workability, and safety notes. The reference woodworkers actually keep open in a tab.

astralcodexten.comAstral Codex Ten — Scott Alexander's long-form essays on AI, forecasting, medicine, and philosophy. Eclectic and careful, and often the clearest thing written on whatever it takes up.

overcomingbias.comOvercoming Bias — Robin Hanson on "why we believe and do what we do, why we pretend otherwise, and how we might do better" — hidden motives, cultural drift, and contrarian social science.

🌱 Promoted to the wiki: the standouts above now live on their topic pages — History, Woodworking, and Blogs — so they’re easy to find later. 🗂️ Catch up on past issues.