Links

A curated collection of interesting content from around the web. Updated periodically.

Essays & Articles

• You and Your Research — Richard Hamming’s legendary talk on doing great research
• What You’ll Wish You’d Known — Paul Graham’s advice to high school students
• The Mundanity of Excellence — How excellence comes from small, consistent improvements
• Meditations on Moloch — On coordination problems and why bad outcomes persist

Tools & Resources

• Anki — Spaced repetition flashcard software
• Hypothes.is — Annotate the web collaboratively
• Internet Archive — Digital library of internet sites and cultural artifacts
• Sci-Hub — Free access to research papers

Websites Worth Exploring

• Gwern.net — One of the best personal websites on the internet
• LessWrong — Rationality and AI safety community
• Marginal Revolution — Tyler Cowen’s economics blog
• Slate Star Codex / Astral Codex Ten — Scott Alexander’s essays

Videos & Lectures

• 3Blue1Brown — Beautiful math visualizations
• MIT OpenCourseWare — Free university courses
• Lex Fridman Podcast — Long-form interviews with researchers

Datasets & Visualization

• Our World in Data — Global data on important topics
• Gapminder — Hans Rosling’s data visualization project
• Observable — Interactive data visualization notebooks

Miscellaneous

• The 36 Questions — Questions designed to create closeness
• Wait But Why — Long, illustrated explainers on big topics
• xkcd — Webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language

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