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Reads & Thoughts I Return To [Perennial Post]

By Alex Mackenzie at

A perpetually evolving doc of reads and media I find myself going back to.

Reads:

  • The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant - Nick Bostrom. link
  • World's Hardest Problems - Jay Zaveri. link
  • Understanding Jane Street - Byrne Hobart. link
  • Advice - Patrick Collison. link
  • The Power of Defaults - Julian Lehr. link
  • Infinite Games - Graham Duncan. link
  • PS2 Rant - Simon Wistow. link
  • Why Big, Why Now, Why You? - Ho Nam. link
  • Technology Some People Are Excited About. link
  • Jiro's Dream - Karri Saarinen. link
  • Taste - Paul Graham. link
  • 2022 - Jordan Gonen. link
  • Research Ideas - Gwern.net. link
  • On "Taste" - Brie Wolfson. link
  • Writing Well - Julian Shapiro. link
  • What You Should Do With Your Life - Alexey Guzey. link
  • Work on These Things - Tyler Cowen. link
  • The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan - Elon Musk. link
  • Research Ideas - Alexey Guzey. link
  • The Market for Silver Bullets - Ian Grigg. link
  • Geeks, MOPs and Sociopaths - David Chapman. link
  • Are you Serious? - Visakan Veerasamy. link
  • What I learned at Palantir - Robert Fink. link
  • 34 Startup Lessons - John Reinstra. link
  • Principles for going -1 to 0 - Hardik Vala. link

Technical Reads:

  • System Design: Stripe Capture the Flag - Greg Brockman. link
  • Grapheme Clusters in Terminals - Mitchell Hashimoto. link
  • Why Log Systems Require So Much Infrastructure - Cribl. link

Video:

  • Finding your own sound - Pharrell & Maggie Rogers. link
  • On Storytelling - Ira Glass. link
  • 2,851 Miles - Bill Gurley. link
  • Do What You Can't - Casey Neistat. link
  • Public Key Crytography - Maxwell Krohn. link

Thoughts:

  • "An answer so wrong it would eventually point to the truth" - Siddhartha Mukherjee. link
  • "A minor-major transition" - Siddhartha Mukherjee. link
  • "Epoch-defining" - Walter Isaacson. link
  • "So bad it's not even wrong" - Wolfgang Pauli. link