Maria Popova ✓
@themarginalian · Brooklyn, NY · joined 02 Oct 2007
Reader. Writer. Creator of The Marginalian (long ago named Brain Pickings). Author of #Figuring. Lover of trees. Petter of moss. Rider of a cobalt blue bicycle.
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For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter — undistracted notes on the search for meaning through art, science, philosophy, poetry, and various other tendrils of wonder. For 20 years, it has remained a one-woman labor of love — free,
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Poetic ecology and the biology of wonder https://t.co/NvwUa2KpMS
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Your life, lived – some of the finest advice on the art of growing older https://t.co/WSc9shRqvS
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John Coltrane, born 100 years ago today, on creativity, perseverance against rejection, and how hardship fuels art https://t.co/dee1APlDaP
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The Vampire Problem – a brilliant thought experiment illuminating the paradoxical psychology of why it's so hard for us to change https://t.co/yEfaNa88D7
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The shortest #birddivination of all, and perhaps the truest. Find it among the set of 100, along with the story and process behind them, at https://t.co/xpo04XE701 https://t.co/3uYzZBwd3A
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"There was perfect trust between us, a source of joy to me, and it must have been a comfort to him. Perhaps birds understand more than we think."
What a blackbird taught a lonely man about friendship https://t.co/B7gUpPJcPR
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Dostoyevsky, just after his death sentence was repealed, on the meaning of life https://t.co/fvRlKZ2QB8
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A recipe for thriving through change. Find this #birddivination among the 100 in the original deck, along with the story and process behind them, at https://t.co/xpo04XE701 https://t.co/tmnt2X6r6H
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It is amazing that this exists: Hear Tolkien read from The Hobbit (published on this day in 1937) in rare audio from his first encounter with a tape recorder https://t.co/lf7kMku7za
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Dorothy Lathrop's dreamscapes – haunting century-old illustrations for French fairy stories by the woman who became the first artist to win the Caldecott Medal, the Nobel Prize of children's books https://t.co/mvhghBwc0Y
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The science of waiting and the art of delay https://t.co/0n3OeX3Rj0
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Random pages of found books, remixed into poems: https://t.co/gfJpexPKmJ https://t.co/sLLuKlkdJM
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James Baldwin on how to live through your darkest hour https://t.co/rhlnfdvI8U
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A spell against stagnation – John O'Donohue on beginnings https://t.co/KbYPGqPCej
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The best of The Marginalian this week, in one place – Tolkien on how to fall in love with life, regret vs. remorse and how to reconcile your most painful mistakes, getting over heartbreak in stone and clay: https://t.co/bEMC1Gr8Sw https://t.co/uSdICAkl8B
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How to be a stone – three poems for trusting time https://t.co/cDJZNEkdyp
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What it's like to be a panda, and what it tells us about our own mystery https://t.co/DpRFPwHe2o
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Be Still, Life – a songlike illustrated invitation to living with presence https://t.co/XbdNN5p9Ph
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How to be an artist – Beethoven's touching letter to a little girl who sent him fan mail https://t.co/PB828Fzvyx
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An antidote to the Cartesian myth of work/life balance – one artist's extraordinary letter to another about the nature of creativity https://t.co/s6Tz3Obdwm
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The Stoic key to living with presence – Seneca on time spent vs. time wasted https://t.co/ytiXfVYShf
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How love (finally) comes to you https://t.co/0lFXCJMzmp
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On losing a parent (which all of us either will or have) https://t.co/2SmPwx0t4P
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How to be a sea – Albert Camus on learning to live and learning to die https://t.co/2RJ59NTklW
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The art of losing and the art of beckoning love back – the story behind one of the greatest poems ever written https://t.co/GvAI8xezzx
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Actuality vs. possibility and how to hear the signal of your life https://t.co/ywFH7ciCX4
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Ursula K. Le Guin on growing older and what beauty really means https://t.co/7e0KWU19Nj
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How to be a sea – Albert Camus on learning to live and learning to die https://t.co/2RJ59NTklW
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How to grow old – wisdom from beloved creative titans, from Ursula K. Le Guin to Nick Cave https://t.co/a7j0jwk1r8
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Rispetto ad account della stessa dimensione
63 post degli ultimi 90 giorni, accanto alla fascia di 100K–1M follower. sotto i pari sia per copertura sia per interazione.
Visualizzazioni mediane5 018questo account5 983mediana per 100K–1M
Copertura, %0.60%questo account1.49%mediana per 100K–1M
Interazione, %0.47%questo account0.93%mediana per 100K–1M
| Metrica | Questo account | Mediana per 100K–1M | Rapporto |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visualizzazioni mediane per post | 5 018 | 5 983 | 0.84× |
| Copertura (visualizzazioni ÷ follower) | 0.60% | 1.49% | 0.40× |
| Tasso di interazione | 0.47% | 0.93% | 0.50× |
Altri account di questa fascia → Confronta con un altro account → Come sono costruiti questi parametri →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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6.9K23 Sep
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.52%21 Sep
0.78%
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0.50%22 Sep
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0.47%
0.36%23 Sep
0.32%
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0.59%24 Sep
0.43%
1.73%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes57.5%558 in total
Reposts9.7%94 in total
Replies1.1%11 in total
Quotes0.7%7 in total
Bookmarks31.0%301 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
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Daily snapshots since 23 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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