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Links

Things I've found interesting enough to save.

Essays

• 1,000 True Fans — Kevin Kelly
• The Bitter Lesson — Rich Sutton
• The Techno-Optimist Manifesto — Marc Andreessen
• How to Do Great Work — Paul Graham
• The Hacker's Manifesto — The Mentor, 1986
• You and Your Research — Richard Hamming
• Meditations on Moloch — Scott Alexander
• Cargo Cult Science — Richard Feynman
• Do Things that Don't Scale — Paul Graham
• The Cook and the Chef — Tim Urban
• Social Signals 2025 — Matthew Stasoff
• How to Get Rich — Naval Ravikant
• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant — Eric Jorgenson
• Hell Yeah or No — Derek Sivers
• This is Water — David Foster Wallace
• The Top Idea In Your Mind — Paul Graham
• Finding Your Purpose — Hunter S. Thompson
• Becoming a Magician — Autotranslucence
• How To Be Successful — Sam Altman
• How to do what you love — Paul Graham
• The Autonomy Spectrum — Casey Winters
• The Tail End — Tim Urban
• The Egg — Andy Weir
• Make Good Art — Neil Gaiman
• The Psychology of Human Misjudgement — Charlie Munger
• Dilbert Career Advice — Scott Adams
• If Men Could Menstruate — Gloria Steinem
• The Mundanity of Excellence — Daniel F. Chambliss
• Strategy Letter III: Let Me Go Back! — Joel Spolsky
• What You'll Wish You'd Known — Paul Graham
• Climbing the Wrong Hill — Chris Dixon
• Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity — Marc Andreessen
• The Day You Became a Better Writer — Scott Adams
• The days are long but the decades are short — Sam Altman
• Agency Is Eating the World — Gian Segato
• 95%-ile isn't that good — Dan Luu
• against narrative — internet princess
• Staring into the abyss as a core life skill — Ben Kuhn
• Be impatient — Ben Kuhn
• Be Skeptical — Nick Cammarata
• Against Universal Basic Income — Alexey Guzey
• On becoming competitive when joining a new company — Ludwig
• Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks — Barabási & Albert, 1999
• Causal Diagrams for Empirical Research — Judea Pearl, 1995
• Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence — Marvin Minsky, 1961
• Mastering the Game of Go with Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search — David Silver et al., 2016
• On Computable Numbers — Alan Turing, 1936
• A Mathematical Theory of Communication — Claude Shannon, 1948
• Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine — Norbert Wiener, 1948
• Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails — Nassim Taleb, 2020
• On the Statistical Properties and Tail Risk of Violent Conflicts — Nassim Taleb, 2015
• The Age of Em — Robin Hanson
• The Power of the Marginal — Paul Graham
• What You Can't Say — Paul Graham
• How to Make Wealth — Paul Graham
• Beating the Averages — Paul Graham
• Hackers and Painters — Paul Graham
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar — Eric S. Raymond, 1997
• The Art of Unix Programming — Eric S. Raymond, 1999
• Computational Information Design — Ben Fry, 2004
• The Human Tech Stack — Patrick McKenzie
• Startup Engineering Essays — Patrick McKenzie
• How We Build Software — Zach Holman
• The Submarine — Paul Graham
• Maker's Schedule vs. Manager's Schedule — Paul Graham
• The Age of the Essay — Paul Graham
• The Other Road Ahead — Paul Graham
• Learning to Do Hard Things — Paul Graham
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money — John Maynard Keynes, 1936
• The Logic of Scientific Discovery — Karl Popper, 1934
• Bootstrapped Startups Lessons — Indie Hackers, 2015–2025

Talks & Podcasts

• Josh Wolfe: Inventing the Future — The Knowledge Project
• Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher — The Knowledge Project
• Eric Weinstein: The Formula for Innovation — James Altucher Show
• How to Get Rich: Every Episode — Naval Ravikant
• USC Gould School of Law Commencement — Charlie Munger
• Principles For Living — Shane Parrish
• Seneca on The Shortness of Time — Shane Parrish

Resources

• arXiv — open-access archive
• The Lindy Library — time-tested books
• AI neurostimulation for attention — Nature Medicine

People

• Kevin Kelly — The Technium
• Naval Ravikant — almanack
• Paul Graham — essays on startups
• Derek Sivers — unconventional wisdom
• Gwern Branwen — deep research, AI
• Scott Alexander — Astral Codex Ten
• Patrick Collison — Stripe, progress studies
• Venkatesh Rao — Ribbonfarm
• Tyler Cowen — Marginal Revolution
• Nassim Taleb — Incerto
• Patrick McKenzie — patio11
• Tim Urban — Wait But Why
• Jack Butcher — Visualize Value
• Anthony Fu — open source dev
• Steve Jobs Archive — in his own words
• Make Something Wonderful — Steve Jobs book, free
• Folklore.org — original Macintosh stories
• Stephen Wolfram — computational thinking

Tools

• Excalidraw — hand-drawn diagrams
• Notion — notes and docs