I keep most of the other cool stuff in my wiki. Here’s distilled content that I thing might be of interest to anyone that stumbled upon this page.
My Favourites
My favourites in various categories in no particular order.
Articles
I am big fan of long format investigative writing. If the author spends the time researching the topic and is able to assimilate accummulated knowledge into a coherent piece writing the topic stops being relevant. This list is longer than I originally intended but I read a lot and there’s just simply a lot of great articles worth mentioning:
- The Clock Is Ticking - Inside the Worst U.S. Maritime Disaster in Decades by William Langewiesche
- The White Darkness - A solitary journey across Antarctica - by David Gran
- A Conspiracy To Kill IE6 - by Chris Zacharias
- “There Is Definite Hanky-Panky Going On” - The Fantastically Profitable Mystery of the Trump Chaos Trades - by William D. Cohan
- Dear Guy Who Just Made My Burrito - A Fictional Letter Written to a Fictional Person About a Real Struggle - oh yes, the famous burrito rant by Jack Dire
- Leave No Soldier Behind - The Unsolved Mystery of the Soldier Who Died in the Watchtower - by William Langewiesche
- The 10-Minute Mecca Stampede That Made History - William Langewiesche
- How to Fairly Divide Talking Time
- Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea - The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth - by Ben Taub
- 50 Ideas That Changed My Life
- The case of the 500-mile email
So many articles by William Langewiesche…
I will be fully honest here, absolutely anything by William Langewiesche is a pure masterpiece. If you love investigative, thrilling writing go ahead and read all Williams articles on Vanityfair. Disclaimer, you will want more!Blogroll
- Paul Graham
- Scott Alexander’s Slate Star Codes, newly also Astral Codes Ten
- Gwern Branwen
- Alexey Guzey
- 100 rabbits
- Jose Luis Ricon
- Tom MacWright
- Johnny Rodgers - beautiful minimalistic and mindful blog, also doubles as a great inspiration for building a house
- Paul Stamatiou
- Alex Danco
- Nikita Voloboev
- Dan Abramov
- Sandy Maguire and the other blog
- Nicholas Nethercote
- A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry by Dr. Bret C. Devereaux
- Amos
- Julia Evans - frequent smaller blog posts diving into various technical topics with comicstrips and wit
- Josh W Comeau
- Bartosz Ciechanowski - interactive long form deep dives on engineering topics such as lenses, GPS, etc.
- Wait But Why
- Arun Venkatesan
- Fabien Sanglard
- Paged Out! - not a blog per se but great source of reading nevertheless
- Lesswrong
- Tynan
- Carol Alexander - lots of awesome books on financial markets, blog posts, and more
- Stephen Diehl
- Apenwarr
- Vitalik Buterin
- Kris Machowski
- Jay Freeman (saurik)
- Danluu
- Blog Surf - blog search engine where blogs are sorted using the Market Rank
- Work In Progress
- How to Build a Life column in The Atlantic
- Tim Bray
- Lucas F. Costa
- Jim Fisher
- Thomas Lin Pedersen
- Steve Francia