Luke Smith's article on the 4 causes is great and captures an important idea about what modernism lacks. if you like melting asphalt (probably the best blog I've ever read) you'll probably also like: - Venkatesh Rao's https://ribbonfarm.com (it's very much a diamonds-in-the-rough type blog imo) - the farnam street blog https://fs.blog/ consistently puts out good content - /sometimes/ lesswrong puts out good ideas when they're not busy modelling spherical cows in a vacuum - https://www.lesswrong.com/ - if you're really into systems theory and don't mind reading strongly management-consultant oriented prose (can't abide it myself but the content is good), https://thesystemsthinker.com/