An Inneresting Digest: 2026 Q2

Once again, we're putting together a highlights issue to look at what you, the readers, are finding inneresting!

Looking back at the most popular links we've shared over the last few months, a few themes seem to emerge. We've grouped these popular links accordingly.

Making plans (for making plans)

The Decision Lab explains The Planning Fallacy, including how breaking a task down into smaller tasks makes people better at estimating how long tasks will take.

Chris Sparling shares how using specific goals to limit his scope when writing Buried took him from the desire to write something small enough that he could produce it himself to creating a terrifyingly claustrophobic film.

8BitJoystick shares a method for overcoming decision paralysis when you have a long list of things you want to read/watch/play in your limited free time.

Working through difficult emotions

Pranav Jain on how adulthood seems designed to dismantle friendships and the invisibility of friendship grief.

Nandini Maharaj wants you to know that the impulse to lie on the floor when you're overwhelmed is actually healthy.

Chris Jones on disassociating into his reporter mind as he watched his marriage end over a text thread.

Creating meaningful connections

Mary Alice Miller collects prompts to explore what it feels like when you know someone is listening to you, and how to provide that same attention to others.

Jay Acunzo uses a framework for introducing himself that can also serve as part of an explanation to yourself, or a pitch to others about why this is your story. It ties together a mission, your background, and an anecdote about yourself as a cohesive package.

Anil Dash sounds the alarm on how LLMs are dismantling what’s left of the open web (and what you can do to counter it).

Seeking out new inspiration

Steven Soderbergh famously did this with a silent, black & white edit of Raiders of the Lost Ark, which is available to screen on his blog.

Maria Popova shares Sol LeWitt's motivational letter to sculptor Eva Hesse, a call to action for any artist.

Robert Lang compiles a list of short experimental films and narrative features with experimental influences.

Jonathan W. Stokes on ways to make your audience invest in your hero.

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What else is Inneresting?

• Marcin Wichary muses on why Apple keeps trying to make the Fn/🌐 key happen.
• Alvaro Romero-Calvo and Theo St. Francis explain how the International Space Station maintains its oxygen supply. To answer your first question, yes it does involve captured urine.
• Polyphonic and Adam Neely highlight what made John Coltrane’s reworking of My Favorite Things an enduring classic.

And that’s what’s inneresting this week!

Inneresting is edited by Chris Csont, with contributions from readers like you and the entire Quote-Unquote team. 

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