non exhaustive list, i have probably read on the order of 100 blog posts i wanna link, so i'll link them gradually when i think of them
have changed my worldview significantly, and when i read it:
- the elon musk series by waitbutwhy (grade 8, 2019)
- the lesson to unlearn, what you'd wish you'd known by paul graham (grade 10, 2020)
- peter thiel's religion by david perell (grade 10?, 2021?)
- the enchiridion by epictetus, that buddhist book i forgot its name (grade 10 summer, 2021)
- meditations on moloch by slatestarcodex (grade 11, 2022)
- worldviews of some humans. naman. damon. emotions contain information era (2023)
writing guides
- david perell's 50 days of writing. and just his general ideas. i binge read his essays like no tomorrow during 2021-2022. and i just in general kinda absorbed his way of thinking during this time period (wrt writing and life.)
- lazy, stupid, and mean. by jim pryor
- julian shapiro's writing guide. specifically i love the "rewriting" and "style" sections <333
also:
- JACKIE LIU ART her youtube videoss
- https://quantum.country/qcvc
- https://numinous.productions/ttft/, https://andymatuschak.org/books/
2023:
- http://paulgraham.com/mean.html
- http://paulgraham.com/lies.html
- http://paulgraham.com/jessica.html
- ben kuhn outliers
- ben kuhn staring into the abyss
- looking for alice
- https://www.alicemaz.com/writing/program.html hot
2022:
- richard hamming's talk
- our perception of love is messed up (yt video) (or maybe this was 2021)
- david perell: the humanity advantage, the taste article (laura should find the link sometime, idt you can find the link of these by searching bc they were newsletters)
moloch adjacent bullshit:
- finite and infinite games
- integrity for consequentialists
- functional decision theory, that post by nicky case
philosophy era, take 2:
- clifford's famous piece i forgot its name
- the will to believe
- aristotle's nichomachean ethics (just do the right thing it's a vibe <3)
- THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS BY ALBERT CAMUS
2021
- navalmanack <3
discipline era:
- do the real thing by scott young
- tkp podcast with nir eyal
- tkp podcast with seth godin
- the next big idea podcast with nir eyal
2020, tks initiation era
- serendipity post by david perell
- tkp podcast with naval ravikant
(again, the years are when i read the stuff, not when they were published.)
- typora.io - samson default typedown editor
- caret.io - samson says this is so pretty
- splime.design - figma but 3d
- coolors.co - tool for generating color palettes from rishi
