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