What we measured
We loaded psyche.co in a real browser, accepted the cookie banner, and scored what came back. Every number below is on a 0–10 scale where 10 is best.
- Ad restraint
- 10
- Design
- 8
- Reach
- 7
- Editorial
- 8
- Signal-to-noise
- 8
- Access
- 10
- Cadence
- 9
- Independence
- 8
Ad entities counted on the homepage after accepting the cookie banner
Clutter, hierarchy, typography and whitespace, scored from our screenshot
Tranco rank for the registrable domain, capped where the feed is a section
Curated judgement of the writing, not a measurement
How much of the feed is the thing you subscribed for
How much is readable without a paywall or a login
Whether it publishes often enough to be worth a slot
Ownership, and how much it constrains what gets covered
What it looks like
Our screenshot of psyche.co, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from Psyche
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
- The impact of self-talk
- The satisfaction of doing work that lasts
- Writing letters is a spiritual practice for our age of speed
- Two actors, no director, one dreamlike play
- Being in a crowd doesn’t make you part of a mindless mob
- A portrait of Liliana Porter
- How to think like a Hegelian
- How to cultivate compassion
- Climbing gives me a break from my brain
- Mother Teresa was virtuous, but she was wrong about virtue
- How to enter a state of flow
- Free-range fraud
- Teddy
- Why we should learn to embrace the middlebrow
- Hoarding: how it impacted my life
Where it sits in Ideas & Longform
- #2 Aeon86.5
- #3 Paul Graham: Essays86.5
- #4 Psyche84.5
- #5 Public Domain Review84.5
- #6 Astral Codex Ten84