An ongoing list of stuff that has influenced my writing, thoughts, beliefs. Includes a mix of practical advice, creative insight, and applicable philosophy.
people, sites, and things
specific things i often revisit
- Have no excuses
- Half-assing it with everything you’ve got
- How to be perfectly unhappy
- Hymn for Goldilocks
- Keep Your Identity Small
- Incorrect hypotheses point to correct observations
- The Thinking Ladder
- The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
- You Will Never Do Anything Remarkable
other stuff
- Against Self-pidgeonholing
- Wealth, shown to scale
- You Must Live an Interesting Life
- The Top Idea in Your Mind
- Creativity Starts Before Anything Is Made
- Melting Asphalt
- Sam Altman
- Zat Rana
- Bojack Horseman
- Existential Comics
- things that aren’t doing the thing
- exam for humans
- Simply locate yourself
- Write Like You Talk
- How to Write Usefully
- A Nihilist’s Guide to Meaning
- How Do I Learn…
- The Art of Response
- High Resolution
- How to Beat Procrastination
- You Are A Brain
- 100 Tips for a Better Life
- Taste For Makers
- A Letter to My Newborn Daughter
- Shoulder Advisors 101
- Thoughts on being mortal
- Start, then learn. Don’t learn, then start.
- Survival in the immoral maze of college
- What it’s like to make things for the web
- Life is a Picture, But You Live in a Pixel
- Desperation
- What You’ll Wish You’d Known
- Mailbag #2 (What should one do if a piece of media…is created by someone who’s a ‘bad’ human being?)
- The Story of Us: Full Series
- Why Nerds are Unpopular
- 18 possible meanings of “I Like Red”
- Eight Short Studies on Excuses
- How to Do What You Love
- Humans are not automatically strategic
- If You Demand Magic, Magic Won’t Help
- Religion for the Nonreligious
- The mechanics of my recent productivity
- How to Work Hard
- Social Media Isn’t the Problem…We Are (90/9/1 Rule section in particular)
- Being Normal
- meaningness.com
- The Age of the Essay
- Ribbonfarm
- The fence is uncomfortable, but it affords the best view
- Kant on how to be a genius
- Super Mario and the Meaning of Life
- A Project of One’s Own
- How to Do Philosophy
- The Void and I: A Story About Everything
- The paradox of discernment
- How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You)
- Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future
- Having a Coke with You
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