Farcaster Fam 👀 I’m doing some research and need your help 📚 What are your favorite essays from the internet? 👀🧠🫡
To be clear - I’m looking for essays, posts, newsletters, blogs, etc about anything. I just figured book people also read essay type content lol.
This is one of my favorites. I go back to read it at least once a year. https://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/
I still re-read this from time to time because I love it so. https://craigmod.com/essays/lets_talk_about_margins/
Quite a few classics and faves here - https://readsomethingwonderful.com
punk6529 twitter threads https://6529.io/education/tweetstorms/ Essays by Paul Graham and Chris Dixon Recent blog post that i still think about: What’s going on here, with this human? by Graham Duncan https://grahamduncan.blog/whats-going-on-here/
Recommended reading for those who don't "get" social media https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service
3 of my favorites -Wait but why on the AI Revolution -The generalist on multi player media -not boring on the great online game Can link them later
Anything ever published by the Atavist https://magazine.atavist.com/
You and your research by Richard Hamming. Also can watch the speech by him on YT https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
From crossbows to cryptography Chuck Hammill https://nakamotoinstitute.org/from-crossbows-to-cryptography/
Creativity faucet by Julian Shapiro https://www.julian.com/blog/creativity-faucet
Lateral thinking with withered ideas https://perell.com/note/lateral-thinking-with-withered-ideas/
The Next Ten Billion Years (https://web.archive.org/web/20170619212821/http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-next-ten-billion-years.html)
The Bitter Lesson (http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html)
A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century(https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation)
Secrets about People: A Short and Dangerous Introduction to René Girard (https://alexdanco.com/2019/04/28/secrets-about-people-a-short-and-dangerous-introduction-to-rene-girard/)
The only thing that matters - https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4 Startup = Growth http://paulgraham.com/growth.html Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager https://a16z.com/good-product-manager-bad-product-manager/
Underrated gem: https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/blog/between-scarcity-and-abundance/
Just like my username, road, i read milkroad to see the latest on crypto. https://milkroad.com/
Two of my favorite non-tech essays are 1) Violence is Golden: https://www.jack-donovan.com/sowilo/2010/09/11/violence-is-golden/ 2) Iron and The Soul: https://www.oldtimestrongman.com/articles/the-iron-by-henry-rollins/
https://open.substack.com/pub/bakerstudio/p/embracing-technology?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web I enjoyed this one from my most recent reads!
https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/10/13/financial-advice-for-my-new-son.aspx Found this from quora, when someone asked Morgan what's his favourite essay, he pointed to this and one more
i don't really like reading essays on the internet, but if i had to pick i guess paul graham or some sama tweets then elon videos
Good question! That list starts with Hyperstructures by @jacob (especially the annotated version with contributions by Nick Axel, as published in Zora Zine issue 001). There are more, but I need to look up titles. I'll return later with more. https://zora.co/collect/zora:0xb62509169af9ffb76d557229ba283160dda88dcb/6
A few that have stuck with me over the years. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/fashion/the-challenge-of-making-friends-as-an-adult.html https://markmanson.net/fuck-yes https://www.lifesnotebook.com/post/research-biology-of-happiness-and-how-to-navigate-temporary-low-middle-age
@dorian 's nature of software may be the best thing I've ever read https://the.natureof.software/
Everything Cedric Chin writes - https://commoncog.com/the-chinese-businessman-paradox/
- the squad wealth piece by Other internet - essays by gigabrain AZ lewis https://aaronzlewis.com/blog/2021/01/17/inside-the-digital-sensorium/
This is the essay that has got a lot of ppl acx pilled, haven't read it in full myself though https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
There are some good pieces in Max Hodak's (founder of neuralink) writing https://maxhodak.com/writings/
"What Happened to the New Internet" is really shaking up what I think about the future of the web (https://www.bryanlehrer.com/entries/new-internet/)
Meditations on Moloch, about suboptimal equilibria and issues with human coordination. Liv Boeree has a couple of podcasts worth listening to. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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