Curiosity
Essays
Longer pieces by other people that stuck with me.
Against Learning From Dramatic Events↗
Scott Alexander
In The Long Run, We're All Dad↗
Scott Alexander
Lifeboat Games And Backscratchers Clubs↗
Scott Alexander
The Witching Hour↗
Scott Alexander
The Days are Long but the Decades are Short↗
Sam Altman
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me↗
Sam Altman
Situational Awareness, The Decade Ahead↗
Leopold Aschenbrenner
How to do the jhanas↗
Nadia Asparouhova
The Full Stack of Society: Can You Make A Whole Society Wealthier↗
Conrad Bastable
A Pilgrimage for Book People↗
Charlie Becker
Breaking Points↗
Agnes Callard
Getting the Pump↗
Jordan Castro
What's Expected of Us↗
Ted Chiang
Fast↗
Patrick Collison
The Stanford Marshmallow Prison Experiment↗
Hotel Concierge
Moving History
Tyler Cowen
Thoughts + Things
Jackson Dahl
Solitude and Leadership↗
William Deresiewicz
On IGSB and a Life Well Lived
Reece Duca
Letter to a Friend who May Start a New Investment Platform↗
Graham Duncan
What's going on here, with this human↗
Graham Duncan
Ur-Fascism↗
Umberto Eco
How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine↗
Simon Eskildsen
Harnessing Entrepreneurial Manic-Depression↗
Tim Ferris
On Useless Work↗
Abraham Flexner
A Crisis of Politics, Not Economics↗
Jeffrey Friedman
How David Hume Helped Me Solve My Midlife Crisis↗
Alison Gopnik
How to be More Agentic↗
Cate Hall
Final Version of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures↗
Alexander Hamilton
On Dragoneer's Investment Process
Christian Jensen
A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox↗
Henrik Karlsson
Childhoods of Exceptional People↗
Henrik Karlsson
Notes on energy and intelligence becoming cheaper↗
Henrik Karlsson
On having more interesting ideas↗
Henrik Karlsson
On limitations that hide in your blindspot↗
Henrik Karlsson
Scraping Training Data for your Mind↗
Henrik Karlsson
Think more about what to focus on↗
Henrik Karlsson
How People Learn to Become Resilient↗
Maria Konnikova
Tech & Investing Roundtable
Laffont, Philippe; Gurley, Bill; Sine, Jeff
Thoughts on Meaning and Writing↗
Matt Lakeman
Cato's Letters at 300↗
Joe Lonsdale
How To Be Good↗
Larissa Macfarquhar
On Lone Pine Capital's Investment Process and Philanthropy
Stephen Mandel
Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution↗
Meaningness
Address to the 54th World Economic Forum↗
Javier Milei
The Scientific Virtues↗
Slime Mold Time Mold
Conversation with Todd Combs
Charlie Munger
First Word Art : Last Word Art↗
Michael Naimar
Can We Survive Technology↗
John Von Neumann
Augmenting Long-term Memory↗
Michael Nielsen
Maybe a word from you will save me↗
Letters of Note
Is Progress a Delusion↗
Paul Orlando
On Progress and Historical Change↗
Ada Palmer
A Letter to Starters↗
TDM Growth Partners
TDM Market Memo 2023↗
TDM Growth Partners
The Punch Card Mentality↗
TDM Growth Partners
Will scaling work↗
Dwarkesh Patel
Chicago Trading Speech 2018↗
Thomas Peterffy
Paradigm Shifts
Robert Reinhart
On Apollo's Origins, Values and Philanthropy
Marc Rowan
On Effective Meetings↗
Brad Singerland
Books to read!
Steven Sinofsky
Building Under Regulation↗
Steven Sinofsky
Regulating AI by Executive Order is the Real AI Risk↗
Steven Sinofsky
Amping it up; Ramaswamy, Sridhar - AI Implications
Frank Slootman
I Should have Loved Biology↗
James Somers
Fascinating Fascism↗
Susan Sontag
Extropia↗
Maxwell Tabarrok
Conviction and Quality↗
Josh Tarrasoff
Essay about impact and duration
Josh Tarrasoff
Essay about investing↗
Josh Tarrasoff
The Straussian Moment
Peter Thiel
Letter on Finding Your Purpose
Hunter S. Thompson
There's More to Invention Than the Eureka Moment
Derek Thompson
Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think (Taming the Mammoth)↗
Tim Urban
The Depressed Person↗
David Foster Wallace
2020 Letter↗
Dan Wang
2021 Letter↗
Dan Wang
2022 Letter↗
Dan Wang
2023 Letter↗
Dan Wang
20 Life lessons↗
Byron Wien
Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History↗
Stephen Wolfram
The Atrophy of American Statecraft : Foreign Affairs↗
Philip Zelikow
Extreme brainstorming questions to trigger new, better ideas↗