Archive - a_real_society’s Substack

TikTok Never Ruined Anyone's Life

Scrolling isn't distracting you from some grand adventure, it's filling a void of inactivity. If you didn't waste time on your phone, you'd waste it…

Jul 10 •

June 2025

Universities Are Making You Look Stupid

The doom and gloom has gone too far. We’re just as good as we’ve always been, no matter what the data on the average college graduate says about us.

Jun 30 •

April 2025

So You Want to be a Farmer

A deep dive into farming and ranching financials

Apr 19 •

March 2025

Mediocrity Delenda Est

We don't have to be at the mercy of the bottom quintile

Mar 28 •

Privateers Reborn: Cyber Letters of Marque

Congressional failure to act and how America can leverage its citizenry on the global cyber battlefield

Mar 20 •

How to Keep Friends and Combat Entropy

The key to building and strengthening friendships as an adult

Mar 12 •

Dating Apps Are a Shortcut to Dying Alone

Why dating apps and networking events were doomed from the start

Mar 5 •

February 2025

January 2025

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Sort

Patio11 on The Sort

Jan 27 •

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