Why I made this
Not long ago, when I would hit a bug I was trying to solve, I often come across an article written by some developer on how to fix it. Then I would start exploring that person’s website, their writing, and their projects — sometimes to learn more, sometimes just for the fun of it. It was such a genuine experience. Not just developers, but people from across domains will leave an impression via their writings.
Since few years, something has been bothering me, and a few others like me. The internet I enjoyed — real people writing and sharing real things — was slowly getting harder to find. AI answers got better, the feeds grew louder, and now a lot of what I read is not even written by a human.
So I made Sapiens Ink — a hand-picked list of writing that is worth your time, each one with a short note from a reader on why it matters. Nothing to sign up for. Nothing watching you. Just good things to read.
It begins with around 100 readings I have enjoyed and collected. I want it to become a quiet place you can open on any day and find something real — and I would love for you to read along, and suggest what we could add next.
And why the name, Sapiens Ink? Homo sapiens made cave paintings, some of them older than the Upper Paleolithic era. We no longer paint on cave walls — software is the canvas now. But we still cherish those paintings. Sapiens Ink represents that philosophy — to find, preserve, and revisit the best things we have written, between the invention of ink and the arrival of LLMs.