deepculture ▪️ 202
Tuesday ◾ December 23◾ 2025
This is the last deepculture edition this year. We’re taking a well deserved holiday break and will be back with a new edition on Tuesday, January 13, 2026.
🎄Christmas Edition! The Best of 2025
Before we take a short break, here's a special edition celebrating the most loved discoveries from 2025 - plus some fresh holiday finds. Thank you for being part of this community of curious minds.
What’s in the Menu for today’s packed Special Christmas Edition:
🎅 Free for everyone / 15 of the most interesting things we shared this year + 10 fresh holiday bonus finds
🦌 For paid subscribers only / +15 NEW recommendations + 10 bonus items for a more joyful Christmas
Enjoy the Holidays! ☃️
A nice collection of life hacks from expert psychologists that should make things a little bit easier. 19 Ways to Improve Your Life.
A very nice list with 35 Simple Health Tips Experts Swear By.
Seven uncomfortable truths about life that will immediately simplify everything. 7 Hard Truths That Will Simplify Your Life.
A very useful list with 1000 ChatGPT Prompts.
A lovely read reminding us that life moves faster than we think. 5 Things To Do Before You Die.
A list explaining each generation in a unique, funny way. An Updated Guide to Generations.
Seven gentle ways to recognize when you’re making life harder than it needs to be. 7 Signs You’re Overcomplicating Your Life.
A very nice website to find great movies and series to watch. A Good Movie To Watch.
An excellent list for every book lover out there. The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.
Esquire magazine reached out to the most interesting people they know and asked for advice they would like to share with the world. Life-Changing Advice from 50 of the Most Interesting People We Know.
Nearly 100 years ago, a group of deep thinkers dared to imagine what life would be like in 2025. 100 Year-Old Predictions about 2025.
Find out how to live a good life, using a mental model called inversion. Here are 20 Ways to Live A Miserable Life.
Essential life lessons shared by Darius Foroux. 25 Things About Life I Wish I Had Known 10 Years Ago.
A useful tool for everyone watching movies and series. All streaming services are covered. Streamin.
A superb and interesting read from Shani Zhang, who, as a painter of weddings, spent time observing strangers move through a room. 21 Observations from People Watching.
🎁 Bonus (+10)
🎄 A fun website packed with holiday magic. Track Santa’s journey around the world on Christmas Eve. Google Santa Tracker.
🌲 A heartwarming story about a father who always bought imperfect Christmas trees. We remember the misfit moments, not the perfect ones. The Misfit Tree.
🎯 A fascinating essay arguing that collective despair about world problems is a form of self-handicapping. Pick one problem and do something small. Use This Magic Bullet to Shoot Yourself in the Foot.
💜 In 2012, a man gave his heartbroken coworker his grandmother’s phone number. That single call sparked a movement where grandmas dispense life advice at purple lemonade stands. The Grandma Stand.
🔬 Scientists created a 3D printer nozzle from a mosquito’s proboscis, achieving better precision than metal nozzles. Welcome to necrobotics. Necroprinting.
🏭 Notion’s CEO explores how AI will transform work using brilliant historical metaphors. Steel forged the Gilded Age, semiconductors enabled the Digital Age, now AI arrives as infinite minds. Steam, Steel, and Infinite Minds.
🧸 A deeply personal essay about a grown man’s lifelong relationship with teddy bears. What begins as childhood attachment evolves into a profound exploration of connection. The Teds.
💻 Spotify Wrapped for GitHub. Enter your username and get a cinematic visualization of your 2025 coding year. GitStory.
💪 The psoas is the only significant muscle connecting your upper and lower body. Most people have no idea where it is. The Most Important Muscle You Don’t Know.
🚀 A stunning collection of the year’s most powerful space photographs, from Einstein rings to naked black holes. The Best Space Photos of 2025.
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !
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