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320 links saved from 2007 to 2026; 310 with a note, 214 in a Weekly Thing.
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2026
2025
- Why We Need to Die
- Universal consciousness as foundational field: A theoretical bridge between quantum physics and non-dual philosophy | AIP Publishing
- How to Not Get Acquired
- Five for 50
- Good Writing
- Garbage — Ridgeline issue 203
- My Life in Weeks by Gina Trapani
- Daring Fireball: Fox’s New Scorebug Graphic Design, and Our Innate Resistance to Change
- Mark All Read
2024
- Slowly Percolating Forms: “So, how’s the sabbatical going?”
- Your life is not a story: why narrative thinking holds you back
- Relationship circles - annie's blog
- What Are You Building With Your Life? | David O’Hara
- Matthew Dicks: How to Tell a Story so That Everyone Listens [The Knowledge Project Ep. #202]
- The defensive arrogance of TL;DR
- Why the Short-Lived Calvin and Hobbes Is Still One of the Most Beloved & Influential Comic Strips
- The Best Essay
2023
- When the committee decides
- Writing to Think
- Project resistance
- The Omni Show: GTD Focus President Meg Edwards Returns
- Life Lessons from the Death Bed
- We’re in a ‘polycrisis’ - a historian explains what that means | World Economic Forum
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb & Scott Patterson (#691)
- On Craft
- Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well | by Keaton Brandt | Source and Buggy | Jul, 2023
- Actor, entertainer, and writer Nick Offerman on creativity as a design for life
- Ideas in progress: David O'Hara on interdisciplinary humanities, sustainability, and bees
- The Ultimate Deliberate Practice Guide: How to Be the Best
- Mental Liquidity
- David Foster Wallace "This is Water."
- Do Personal Brands Matter?
- What is a friend? | always happy; never satisfied
- The Case for the Total Liberation of Ukraine
- Collect Stories, Not Generalizations
- Beyond Getting Stuff Done
- Meditations On Moloch
- New decisions based on new information
- Leverage is brittle
- Unpacking Adult Mindsets — Willing to Be Disturbed
- 2022 letter
- It’s not about the land…
- Tell Good Stories
- Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery.
- Four Thousand Weeks
2022
- Is it worth writing about?
- The Need to Read
- The Buy And Hold Mindset
- Starting principles: How to find your principles
- Reminiscing: the retreat to comforting work.
- 50 ways to be ridiculously generous — and feel ridiculously good.
- Adversarial Collaboration: An EDGE Lecture by Daniel Kahneman
- Prestige Writing
- Get Yourself Free by Mo Perry
- Problems now (problems later)
- Where To Spend More Part Three
- About 200 years ago, the world started getting rich. Why?
- book notes
- Thinking in Bets: How to Make Decisions Like a Poker Player
- Thoughts on OKRs
- Some Notes On 'Asshat'
- Disinformation and Fooled by Randomness
- What You’re Feeling Isn’t A Vibe Shift. It’s Permanent Change.
- Lincoln's Humility
- Sparking Your Inner Stoic with Dave O'Hara
- When we share our fears, we might learn how much we're alike
- Putting Ideas into Words
- Focused #144: Enough, with Patrick Rhone
- Personal velocity
2021
- Wanting | Feel The Byrn
- Contrarians Start Here
- Reddit Reads: Book reccomendations from reddit
- The Universal Structure of Storytelling
- How to Navigate Stress in a Storm
- When Your Parents Are Dying: Some of the Simplest, Most Difficult and Redemptive Life-Advice You’ll Ever Receive
- Work, Family, Scene: You Can Only Pick Two
- The Most Important Decision You Make – Daily Dad – The Blog
- Taleb Concepts Vol. 2
- Beyond Smart
- How to be a man
- Back to School
- Improve your business writing with the TL;DR principle
- The Art of Not Taking Things Personally by Dave Bailey | The Founder Coach
- My Kids Will Not Be Home Today: On the Mental Weight We Carry
- The Things That Make Fathers Happiest
- Guiding Positive Change
- The Circles of Friendship
- A Once-in-a-Lifetime Chance to Start Over
- A Lifetime of Systems Thinking
- The self is not singular but a fluid network of identities
- Identity and ideas
- An interlude.
- Editing it down
- Crazy New Ideas
- Thinking clearly about "cancel culture"
- Why handwriting beats typing
- Daring Fireball: 'That's What Makes Bill Very, Very Dangerous'
- 2020 Letter to Shareholders
- Identity is often used against us
- Writing tools I learned from The Economist
- Build a Better Backstory
- The OODA Loop: How Fighter Pilots Make Fast and Accurate Decisions
- 'The Code Breaker' by Walter Isaacson
- Commenting vs. making
- Beyond Burned Out
- Brené on Words, Actions, Dehumanization, and Accountability
- A long read on vulnerability, an honest account of 2020, and an ask for help.
2020
- Michael Sandel: The tyranny of merit
- How to Think for Yourself
- How to Buy Gifts That People Actually Want
- How to write an essay well
- Pope Francis: The Covid-19 Crisis Reveals What Is in Our Hearts
- How Magic Mushrooms Are Changing the Lives of Terminal Cancer Patients
- ten recent thoughts
- Designing Your Life | Bill Burnett | TEDxStanford
- How to Write Well: 4 Steps to Improve Your Writing
- This is a test…
- Writing Is Thinking
- Life & Death
- We like what we choose
- The Unlived Life
- Free is Better
- These 7 Lessons Will Make You Better
- The Subtle Power of Changing Your Identity
- Write More. All too often I see a lot of time and… | by Cindy Sridharan | Jul, 2020
- Stuff I've learned about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion over the past few years.
- A Body of Work
- Do You Know How Divided White And Black Americans Are On Racism?
- Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
- Racial Injustice has Benefited Me - A Confession
- Anti-racism resources for white people
- Uncertainty, as mantra | Curious Public
- Do. The. Work. – wonder and beauty
- The Technium: 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
- Life Comes at You Fast. So You Better Be Ready.
- Luca Dellanna on Twitter: "We all know the importance of skin in the game for organizations and societies. But what about yourself?"
- Signaling as a Service « julian.digital
- Corporate Socialism: The Government is Bailing Out Investors & Managers Not You
- Day trading emotions
- The Deep Life: Some Notes - Study Hacks
- Mary Dash’s Writing Tips
- You All Instead of You Guys
- Share stories, not advice.
- Finland is winning the war on fake news. Other nations want the blueprint
- How Will You Measure Your Life?
- The Crucible Of Leadership
- A Note on Reading Big, Difficult Books...
- Thinking faster with mind maps
2019
- It’s Time to Get Back to Basics
- Warren Rustand on Working in the White House and Building a Purpose-Driven Life | Elevate Podcast
- The First Non-Bullshit Book About Culture I’ve Read
- For Fathers of Daughters | Jules Pieri
- Highlights from "The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande
- The Atomic Minimalist: My Conversation with James Clear - Study Hacks
- The China Cultural Clash
- Three Big Things: The Most Important Forces Shaping the World
- Writing is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence
- The Egg
- swissmiss | How To Write by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Journaling :: Up and to the Right — Jonathan Borichevskiy
- You’re Not Lazy, Bored, or Unmotivated
- Inno-Versity Presents: Greatness by David Marquet
- Hey From The Future - Advice people wish they had at your age.
- How Cooking Can Change Your Life - Michael Pollan
- Denver votes to decriminalise magic mushrooms by razor-thin margin
- The Greatest Coach
- When Do You Know You Are Emotionally Mature? 26 Suggestions - The Book of LifeThe Book of Life
- Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform
- A Magician Explains Why We See What’s Not There - Issue 70: Variables
- Good enough to eat? The toxic truth about modern food | Books
- How to Apply The Principles of Long-Term Investing to Everything
- Intentionality
- The Observation Deck » Reflecting on The Soul of a New Machine
- How To Be Successful
- The books I read in 2018
- Oil Fail
2018
- Trillion Dollar Coach - Eric Schmidt - Hardcover
- How to Write a Novel With Ulysses, Part I: Organization and the Writing Process
- TED Talk on Getting Things Done for Teens
- 16 (x4) Books We Read Winter 2018
- Ant Colonies Retain Memories That Outlast the Lifespans of Individuals | Science
- 5 books I loved in 2018
- The End of Trust (McSweeney's 54)
- The Hidden Tribes of America - Hidden Tribes
- ongoing by Tim Bray · On Cash
- So Good They Can't Ignore You
- Slowly Percolating Forms: Contemplation, Conversation, Commentary
- Margin is Not a Luxury
- Quit wasting your precious energy
- Favorite Sayings
- Kobayashi Maru Management
- How I Read
- The Speed Trap: When Taking Your Time [Really] Matters
- Boobs, Muscles & Fairy Wings: Everything I Know About How Humans Design Their Avatar Selves
- YC’s 2018 Summer Reading List
- Hindsight
- How the Disposable Straw Explains Modern Capitalism
- Michael Pollan: "How to Change Your Mind" | Talks at Google
- Episode #41: David Allen Talks with General Randal Fullhart
- Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem
- The Piggyback Guy
- The ultimate Bill Gates book recommendation list
- The Cult of the Root Cause
- On Gaming & the Breath of the Wild
- The Curious Brain (Why Curiosity is as Important as Intelligence)
- Principles by Ray Dalio
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Advice on Borrowing Money and Getting Financial Freedom
- Peter Stern: A Birthday Note for my Daughter
- Training Partners | superteam
- The Art of Dialogue – MIT Spectrum
- The Role of Luck in Life Success Is Far Greater Than We Realized
- Live Like a Hydra – Thinking Is Hard
- The two mental shifts highly successful people make
- Brave Enough
- The TLS interview: Twenty Questions with Steven Pinker
- Episode #38 – The Power of Outcome Thinking
- Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention – Locus Online
- Book: Principles by Ray Dalio
2017
- Equifinality
- Once, We Were Explorers
- Universal Basic Income explained
- Book: Why We Sleep
- Your personality and your brain | Scott Schwefel | TEDxBrookings
- On Being - Daniel Kahneman - Why We Contradict Ourselves and Confound Each Other
- On Being - Atul Gawande - What Matters in the End
- Kitchen Soap – The Infinite Hows (or, the Dangers Of The Five Whys)
- Think, live, be positive aggressive | Phil Soran | TEDxFargo
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Enlightenment Technology
- YC’s 2017 Summer Reading List
- Going beyond the basic checklist
- Scientists explain ancient Rome's long-lasting concrete
- The Critical Difference Between Complex and Complicated
- On The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up
- David “DHH” Heinemeier Hansson: The Entrepreneurial and Unstoppable Stoic
- Actions, not words, reveal our real values
- In the Kingdom of the Blind —Bridget Kromhout
- Simple rules —a n n i e m u e l l e r
- OpenBook Consulting | Processing a century of research on thinking and learning
- NetLogo Models Library: Ethnocentrism
- A Fresh Take on Contexts
2016
2015
- Love in the Age of Big Data
- The Two Adams
- The Best Books I Read in 2015
- Simplicity
- What The Brain Can Tell Us
- Daniel Kahneman: ‘What would I eliminate if I had a magic wand? Overconfidence’
- A Day for Brutally Honest Review. - My Name is Michael
- just another scala quant - just another scala quant
- The Moral Bucket List
2014
2013
- The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky
- EFF's Reading List: Books of 2013
- Web Site of Rajiv Pant | Victory is winning people, not defeating others.
- Exceptional Letterpress Strategy - Slanted Viewpoint
- Ray Ozzie here. Regarding "minitruth" - you've got to maintain a bit of a sense... - Hacker News
- "Creativity is the Ability to Play"
- Linda Stone on Maintaining Focus in a Maddeningly Distractive World - James Fallows
- There's More to Life Than Being Happy - Emily Esfahani Smith
- YOU HAD ONE JOB!
2012
- KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON with the Keep Calm-o-matic
- Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong
- A life less posted
- The Willingness to Think Differently
- Theoretical physicist Brian Greene on origins of the universe
- Bill Watterson's Speech at Kenyon College (1990)
- Turning Pro
- Michael Lewis Princeton Commencement Remarks
- How to end junk news
- Getting serious about experimentation
- Ludwig von Mises
- Brian Greene: Is our universe the only universe?
- Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man
- Rory Sutherland: Sweat the small stuff
- Rory Sutherland: Perspective is everything
- Books Every Geek Should Read to Their Kids
- The Top of My Todo List
- TIME Ideas
- The Chairs Are Where the People Go
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
2011
- EFF's Reading List from 2011
- 'Nudge' policies are another name for coercion
- The Limits of Human Rationality
- Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now)
- Forks Over Knives
- Made By Hand
- Dead Man's Switch
- How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think
- Kill Math
- Clear, Concise, Sentences
- Clement Bezold
- Introducing The Hive, in which Slate readers offer great new ideas for the world's trickiest problems. - By David Plotz
- Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior