Nadia Asparouhova

@nayafia

publishing @asteriskmgzn // books: Working in Public (open source) + Antimemetics (ideas that don’t spread)

San Francisco

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Nadia Asparouhova
@nayafia
Mar 26, 2025
I wrote a new book! It's called ANTIMEMETICS: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading, and it's about ideas that don't want to be shared or remembered, despite their importance. Now available for pre-order: darkforest.metalabel.com/antimemetics
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Nadia Asparouhova
@nayafia
Sep 17
I wrote Antimemetics last year partly as a response to the world we're living in, which is default-closed even as some types of information are more accessible than ever. Asterisk is now commissioning for our Winter issue, whose theme is Secrets. If you're as consumed by the
Asterisk
@asteriskmgzn
Sep 17
We are now accepting pitches for Issue 17, whose theme is Secrets:
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Nadia Asparouhova
@nayafia
Sep 17
What will it mean to live alongside a superintelligence that can't breathe or touch grass?
Ryan Orbuch
@orbuch
Sep 17
I wrote an essay about why the next frontier for AI is the world outside the data center Nature is a system more complex than anything we've ever created AI can learn how the system fits together, so we can finally understand how to shape it How? naturalgeneralintelligence.ai
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Nadia Asparouhova
@nayafia
Sep 16
Being a pastor's wife, it turns out, is a lot like being a founder's wife, where you trade in your identity for a supporting role in your spouse's. In both cases, the feeling of contributing to something bigger than oneself makes the job appealing. But there is something
The Unacknowledgeable Work of Pastors’ Wives
From asteriskmag.com
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Nadia Asparouhova
@nayafia
Sep 9
Scotland is an incredible case study for what could happen if we stopped teaching the humanities in school. In the 1990s/early 2000s, Scotland pivoted from teaching general knowledge to focusing on practical skills. The results were disappointing. Their student education scores
The Destruction of the Scottish Canon
From asteriskmag.com
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