About

Sapiens Ink is a curated list of the best human writing on the internet — articles, essays, books, threads, papers, and more. It is carefully crafted, edited, and maintained by a handful of human volunteers.

Why Sapiens Ink?

With the rise of AI & LLMs, I'm getting increasingly tired of AI slop — mainstream platforms, social media, and the rest filling up with AI-generated content. I feel search engines and social media algorithms are getting worse day by day at helping you discover human-first content. Real people writing, indie blogs, small websites, content written decades ago, books with taste — they're no longer easily discoverable.

Content Philosophy

• Human First, No AI — Something a human wrote, strictly not AI slop.
• Worth Sharing — Would you share this with your friends or colleagues?
• 2 Lines of Why — While sharing, can you tell in two lines why one should read this?
• Timeless — Would it be worth reading even after several years?
• Small Web — Individual websites, blogs, and articles, not large corporates or media houses.

What It's Not

Not a platform. Not a feed. No sign-ups. No trending. No AI summaries. No generated filler.

For developers

The whole list is one public JSON file — no key, no sign-up. If you'd like to build something with it — a reader, a bot for a friend, your own corner of the small web — help yourself:

GET https://sapiensink.com/api/entries.json

It's an array of entries; each one looks like this:

{
  "id": "feynman-value-of-science",
  "title": "The Value of Science",
  "author": "Richard P. Feynman",
  "url": "https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/1575/1/Science.pdf",
  "type": "essay",
  "category": "science",
  "tags": ["science", "doubt", "wonder"],
  "year": 1955,
  "annotation": "Feynman on why doubt and uncertainty are features of science, not things to apologize for. He treats not-knowing as something close to a moral stance."
}

You may see above data structure, fields changing quickly for upcoming features. The file is rebuilt every time the site is, so it always matches what you see here.

One ask: keep it human. Use it to help people find good writing — please don't pour it into a model to manufacture more of what this site exists to avoid.

Want to submit something?

The standard for adding something is simple, and a little demanding: would you care to write 2 lines on why it's worth reading?

If you've read something that meets the bar, we would genuinely like to see it. You can email me at hi@sapiensink.com, or there's a submit page — it comes to me, I read it, and if it fits, it goes in. No promises on speed, only on attention.

Who is behind this initiative?

It's mostly me, and sometimes few volunteers help maintain it. You can get to know more about me on this page.