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Essay Club: June'25
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Essay Club: June'25

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Michael Dean
Jun 18, 2025
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Below you’ll find links, meeting times, streaks, and who’s working on what. This page will be pinned in all our calendar events. I’ve tagged everyone who filled out our Google Form, but consider subscribing to the “Essay Club” section in your account settings to ensure you get these each month.

Meeting times:

Live feedback exchanges:

Look out for calendar invites. I recommended you bring a draft for live feedback (these events work as a good forcing function). But I can also (a) pair up people for discussion, and (b) create a focused writing room. Make sure you join the calls before :10 after!

  • Tuesday, 6/10 at 3pm ET;

  • Thursday, 6/12 at 7pm ET (rescheduled from 6/5);

  • Tuesday, 6/17 at 7pm ET;

  • Friday, 6/20 at 3pm ET;

  • Friday, 6/27 at 3pm ET.

Writing gyms:

We also have writing gyms on Mondays at 5pm ET. These are typically 55 minutes focus sessions, but depending on the group that day, we’ll sometimes experiments with prompts and structured exercises.


Published in May ‘25:

This is where I’ll keep a running list of who published last loop. You’ll see a number next to each name which denotes a streak. You get +1.00 for reaching the goal you set out on time, +0.75 if you’re late, and +0.50 for publishing anything (with a public URL). If you miss a month, your counter resets to 0. If you publish your last month’s goal late, DM me and I can update below.

Streaks:

  • Becky Isjwara (8.0): Cheat on Your Job;

  • Lily (6.0): Shame and Loathing in Sichuan;

  • Coco Liu (6.0): Community is less about the who, and more about the where and how;

  • Camilo Moreno-Salamanca (5.5): My AI Rules;

  • Nat Lee (5.5): Postal Code Politics: Election reflections of the politically orphaned;

  • Matthew Beebe: (5.5) From Aphrodite’s Tears;

  • Gairik Sachdeva (5.5): Creativity from Chaos: Like a Diligent, Discerning, Demon;

  • Charlie Becker (5.0): Chelsea is not a metaphor;

  • Rose (4.5): Gretchen and the Invisible Weight of Staying Whole;

  • Ines Lee (4.0): for anyone worried about being replaced by AI;

  • Randall Bennington (3.5): There are still libertarians?;

  • Claire Butler (3.0): wHat is ComMuNiTy aNd h0w d0 y0u MeaSure iT?;

  • Sam Woods (2.75): Wisdom in the Age of AI;

  • Dolores Lucero (1.0): Acceptance;

  • Ani (1.0); You should not want doom;

  • Malarkodi (1.0): Investing in Equity Around Your Constraints;

  • Michael Dean (0.5): The Babbling Idiot & The Tribe;


Our publishing score: 58% (18 of 31 published / up from 55%).
Our weighted score: 52% (16.25 of 31 / up from 47%).

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