About

A small library that keeps up.

This is a personal project, made for fun and kept public because a good library is nicer when the door’s open.

Living books

Most news is built to be forgotten. You read the same story a dozen times and retain none of it, because each telling starts from zero. The books here work the other way: one book per topic, and each new development becomes a dated chapter added to the same book. The knowledge compounds. You can read the whole arc, or just the “story so far” on the left page to catch up in a minute.

Four books are open now — the state of AI, longevity and healthspan, the town of Göttingen, and money and markets. Eleven more sit on the shelf waiting for their first chapter. They fill in over time.

How the books are built

Every factual claim links to its source, so you can check it rather than trust it. When a question is genuinely contested — is the AI boom a bubble, is rapamycin worth taking — the book shows the strongest case on both sides, matched, with a source for each, and doesn’t tell you who’s right. That part is borrowed from an older version of this site, and it stays.

The Parlor

The other half of the library is the Parlor — question decks for two. It has nothing to do with the news; it’s just a good way to spend an evening with someone. Draw a card, both of you answer, no winners.

The rules of the house

No ads. No accounts. No tracking — anything the Parlor remembers lives only on your own device. And the Library closes on Sundays, because you shouldn’t spend your Sunday in here.