Archive
11 issues · 30 links · Updated weekly
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- 01 High Agency George Mack · 30 min read If your problem doesn’t defy the laws of physics, it’s not an unsolvable problem — regardless of what other people say.
- 02 Taste for Makers Paul Graham · 11 min read When you're forced to be simple, you're forced to face the real problem.
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- 01 Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System Donella Meadows Paradigms are the sources of systems.
- 02 The Bitter Lesson Rich Sutton We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered.
- 03 You and Your Research Richard Hamming If you want to do great work, you clearly must work on important problems, and you should have an idea.
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- 01 Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice Patrick McKenzie Software solves business problems.
- 02 Do Things that Don't Scale Paul Graham Actually startups take off because the founders make them take off.
- 03 1,000 True Fans Kevin Kelly A true fan is defined as a fan that will buy anything you produce.
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- 01 Meditations On Moloch Scott Alexander The opposite of a trap is a garden.
- 02 The Tail End Tim Urban Living in the same place as the people you love matters.
- 03 The Psychology of Money Morgan Housel A key use of wealth is using it to control your time and providing you with options.
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- 01 Choose Boring Technology Dan McKinley Technology for its own sake is snake oil.
- 02 Slow Ideas Atul Gawande But people talking to people is still the way that norms and standards change.
- 03 Reality has a surprising amount of detail John Salvatier At every step and every level there’s an abundance of detail with material consequences.
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- 01 Being Glue Tanya Reilly Glue work is the difference between a project that succeeds and one that fails.
- 02 How Will You Measure Your Life? Clayton M. Christensen Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life’s strategy.
- 03 Inventing on Principle Bret Victor Creators need an immediate connection to what they’re creating.
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- 01 Augmenting Long-term Memory Michael Nielsen That is, Anki makes memory a choice.
- 02 Normalization of deviance Dan Luu But once people get convinced that some deviation is normal, they often get really invested in the idea.
- 03 The Law of Leaky Abstractions Joel Spolsky All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.
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- 01 Status as a Service Eugene Wei Thirst for status is potential energy.
- 02 The Mental Model Fallacy Cedric Chin The most valuable mental models do not survive codification.
- 03 Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule Paul Graham A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in.
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- 01 This is Water David Foster Wallace You get to decide what to worship.
- 02 A Lesson on Elementary Worldly Wisdom Charlie Munger You’ve got to have models in your head.
- 03 How Complex Systems Fail Richard I. Cook Because overt failure requires multiple faults, there is no isolated ‘cause’ of an accident.
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- 01 The Wrong Abstraction Sandi Metz When the abstraction is wrong, the fastest way forward is back.
- 02 Simple Made Easy Rich Hickey Easy is not simple.
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- 01 How can we develop transformative tools for thought? Andy Matuschak & Michael Nielsen If those are well chosen, the medium expands the possible range of human thought.
- 02 Why Tacit Knowledge is More Important Than Deliberate Practice Cedric Chin Tacit knowledge is knowledge that cannot be captured through words alone.