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353 links saved from 2005 to 2026; 21 with a note, 10 in a Weekly Thing.
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2026
- ★ HomeView Thoughts and Observations
- What If We Just Stopped?
- Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier
- Models Don't Go Rogue
- The Harness Is the Thing
- Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach
- The Hugging Face attack surprised me - by Ajeya Cotra
- Still Holds: Gall’s Law
- The Fuzzy Mind
- All Roads Lead to Om
- My Om Malik Story
- The Coming Loop
- Why Janet?
- The Ask
- The Copy and the Guru
- Pope Leo and human intelligence
- Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
- The append-and-review note
- Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
- Matt 4.2
2025
- The Lost Generation
- Thoughts on (Amazonian) Leadership
- The pause that refreshes
- On Classical Liberalism - by Cass Sunstein
- Team OKRs in Action
- Every Single Human. Like. Always.
- In His Own Words: Gary Kildall - CHM
- NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, and others
- It's EFF's 35th Anniversary (And We're Just Getting Started)
- It's Time for Something New
- Ten Years Indie
- The Intelligence Curse
- What Problems to Solve - By Richard Feynman
- Where We Are Headed - by Dean W. Ball
- The average college student today - by Hilarius Bookbinder
- Rewilding the Self – World Sensorium / Conservancy
- Can you complete the Oregon Trail if you wait at a river for 14272 years: A study
- ‘We’re Fine’: Lying to Ourselves About a Climate Disaster
- The Agony of Texting With Men
- The Anti-Social Century
- Stay Gold, America
- EFF’s 2023 Annual Report Highlights a Year of Victories: 2024 in Review
2024
- My favorite books of 2023
- OKRs for Evil and Good
- A Common Sense Democrat manifesto - by Matthew Yglesias
- Manton Reece - I support the mad king
- In Defense of “Y’all,” a Perfect Word
- 2024 in review.
- The Best Goals in Football for 2024
- Michael Tsai - Blog - Moom 4
- Why Does Ozempic Cure All Diseases? - by Scott Alexander
- 55 Things to Know About Tim Walz
- Musk, the Foxy Kingmaker
- ‘The Interview’: Robert Putnam Knows Why You’re Lonely
- Your Independence Day
- On Not Being Online
- ONCE — Writebook
- Weighing in on "Man or Bear"
- Read Write Own - Chris Dixon
- Read Write Own
- The 2024 Bookmark Situation
- 750 Words - Write every day.
- A New Year’s interview with Volodymyr Zelensky
- Calvin and Hobbes at Martijn's - Bill Watterson
- When the New York Times lost its way
2023
- Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule
- In Defense of Strategy
- Hooked on a feeling - by Mo Perry
- David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2
- Moai | by Arthur Hayes | Jul, 2023
- Reading Well - by Simon Sarris - The Map is Mostly Water
- The good news
- Len Sassaman and Satoshi: a Cypherpunk history
- Tau Day | No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto by Michael Hartl
- Staying in the arena
- The new normal
- Why Not Mars (Idle Words)
- What Just Happened
- What Will Happen In 2023
- 2022 in review
- Gnosis Year In Review - by GC Validator Newsletter
- Gnosis Year in Review 2022
- Stories From The Year Thirty Forty Two
- St. Thomas Names New President
- On Teenage Luddites
- Freeform Leverages the Freedom and Flexibility of a Blank Canvas
- The MacStories Selects 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award
2022
2021
2020
- National Anthem Protests Pt. 2 ft. Roger Goodell | Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man Ep 8
- Performative leadership.
- Protesting the National Anthem - Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man - Ep. 8 pt.1
- 10 Books That Will Blow Your Mind
- Book Review: Elon Musk. “We wanted flying cars, instead we got… | by Damon Allison | Aug, 2020
- Three Common Misunderstandings of Self-Taught GTD Fans
- The Giving Tree- Alternate Ending
- John Lewis: Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation
- Race vs Religion - Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man Ep. 7 w/ Carl Lentz, Hillsong Church
- White Parents, Raising Black Children - Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man - Ep. 6
- Webster's 1913
- EXTENDED VERSION - Interracial Relationships - Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man - Ep. 5
- Good Meetings are Jazz
- Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man - Episode 4
- Bridget Kromhout | twenty years on
- The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones
2019
- The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd
- 2019 in review.
- Who deserves a reply? Take the "No Ghosting" pledge.
- Waking Up with Sam Harris - Discover your mind.
- Vito Mannone: Goalkeeper of the Year
- Advanced Topic – Essential SAFe
- Thread by robin on Rosegarden, archived six hours ago
- I Can't Stop Winning (Pinboard Blog)
- USA 2019 Womens World Cup champions were unflappable, unequaled
- Hypercritical: Jony Ive
2018
2017
- Santa Facts —xkcd.com
- Aziz Ansari on Quitting the Internet, Loneliness, and Season 3 of Master of None
- In for the Kill
- Change goes away
- Book Excerpt: 'Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D&D'
- Feel like you belong
- 5 Good Summer Reads
- Tradition Tuesday: Wonderwall
- How Brandi Carlile Got Adele and Obama for a Benefit Album
- Teacher Celebrates 50 Years - Story | North Dakota
- The Neighbor Rule
- Introduction · ssb-handbook
- Candor With Justin Kaufenberg
- My favorite books of 2016
- Looking Back, Looking Ahead—2017 Edition
2016
- 5 Reasons Why Trump Will Win
- How the Big Green Egg became a phenomenon
- Larry Lessig Has a Very Good Attitude
- A wagon full of hope
- Is Donald Trump Actually Trying to Win?
- Elon Musk's recommended books
- YC's Summer Reading
- Jon Stewart Takes Over Colbert's Late Show Desk
- #BlackLivesMatter puts the Catholic vision of higher education to the test.
- Sad! - The Huffington Post
- The Most Important TED Talk Ever
- On the Road to Recap:
2015
- Revisiting Empathy
- The Lonely Death of George Bell
- Burning Down the Mouse — Matter
- Saying no to everything else
- Amazon’s Culture Controversy Decoded
- The Kim Davis situation: How to make distinctions when conscience and duty collide
- Who’s still wearing cargo shorts?
- When I’m Gone
- New York Magazine’s Cosby: The Women
- Trapped on Lyndale Avenue
- Growing Up Trans | FRONTLINE
- I, Racist
- Watching Women Want
- DSHR's Blog: Brittle systems
- The Last Lecture (in a long time) | LESSIG Blog, v2
- Live with Phil
- Books | William Hertling's Thoughtstream
- Just Smart Enough
- The Chokehold of Calendars
- Notes on the Surrender at Menlo Park
- The Miracle of Minneapolis
- Chomsky & Krauss: An Origins Project Dialogue (OFFICIAL) - (Part 1/2)
- Books read in 2014
- The Hiring Post
- Moxie Marlinspike >> Blog >> GPG And Me
- How Boyhood won by losing at the Oscars
- The Miracle of Minneapolis - Atlantic Mobile
- A mile wide, an inch deep
2014
- On Disconnecting
- How Americans Die
- Garrick’s Recommended Reading List – 2014 Edition | Garrick van Buren
- 'Sports Night': An oral history, starring Aaron Sorkin and his cast | Inside TV
- Announcing Prophet
- Three Simple Questions
- The Story of the PING Program
- This American Life tries to turn its radio audience onto podcasting with its new show Serial
- move fast & break nothing
- Douglas Crockford: The Better Parts - JSConfUY 2014
- Pen Pals: Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Veteran of the Process Wars
- Always On
- Garrick van Buren's Morning Routine
- Twenty Questions for Donald Knuth
- Monitorama Portland 2014 - From Zero to Visibility
- Obama Declares Climate Change Is A Fact
- The Four Freedoms
- Sandman
2013
- Publics Views on Human Evolution
- Fox Valley Kubb Radio-Episode #6 Planet Kubb 10/13 by Fox Valley Kubb Radio | Sports Podcasts
- A Texan tragedy: ample oil, no water | Environment
- Seth's Blog: Words are hooks, words are levers
- The slippery slope
- Text of SXSW2013 closing remarks by Bruce Sterling
- Show Me The Way
- Minnebar 8 Recap » Nate Bird
- Your Phone vs. Your Heart
- Letters of Note: Love, Dad
- 29C3 Talks Recorded (mirror)
2012
- The WELL: State of the World 2013: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky
- A Short Lesson in Perspective
- Dilbert "Cloudwash"
- Turing Centenary Speech (New Aesthetic)
- Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin
- Mary Meeker Re-Imagines Nearly Everything
- The American Dream Then and Now
- Take us to The Rivers
- Girlyman, Supernova Shine Bright
- Stand Up for Fitness
- The Last Taboo
- Edits Quarterly × Ian Coyle
- THE SHINING (1979) analysis by Rob Ager
- Favorite Books of 2011
2011
- The Right to Read
- Eating Animals - Nicolette Hahn Niman - Health
- Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice
- Cutting their own throats
- Adam Lisagor – interview by Merlin Mann
- The Rap Board - Signature catchphrases from your favorite rappers
- RossTraining.com Blog
- The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz
- Dawkins on homosexual
- Republic, Lost by Larry Lessig
- There’s Something Happening Here
- It’s Good to Be Michael Lewis
- Transom Radiolab: An Appreciation by Ira Glass
- jon-stewart-profile-1011
- Branford Marsalis: The Problem With Jazz
- ANNIE the Musical | Coming to Broadway Fall 2012 | Official Site
- The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit)
- TEDxConcordiaUPortland - Jefferson Smith - Priceless politics: The secret to making democracy work
- Matt Mullenweg: State of the Word 2011
- London riots: update
- The Transformation of Michele Bachmann
- Chuck Klosterman on Breaking Bad
- An Oral History of Friday Night Lights
- What Would Don Draper Do?
- Why We Celebrate July 4th
- Everything is a Remix (Part 2)
- Jon Stewart on Fox News Sunday
- ginandtacos.com » Blog Archive » THE LEAST DANGEROUS BRANCH
- ‘A Frightening Time in America’: An Interview with David Foster Wallace by Ostap Karmodi | NYRblog
- When Food Kills
- SEDUCTION
- 37signals Interviews Newsvines Mike Davidson
- Scenes from MinneBar 2011
- The Sophie Choice « StevenLevy.com
- Derek K. Miller’s Last Post
- Is Sugar Toxic?
- Is Sitting a Lethal Activity?
- Guernica The Straight Dope
- Write In Color
- The One-Percenters
- To the young brilliant minds
- Minor Differences Part 3
- A New Kind Of Stripping
- Secrets of Thunderbolt and Lion
- 2010ltr.pdf
- Mind vs. Machine
- Malcolm Gladwell Remarks to the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Annual Meeting
- The Geek-Kings of Smut
- The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained
- Judgment Days
- Interview: Marco Arment
- 2010 Books
- Please see "Inside Job"
- Wikipedia – an unplanned miracle
- On Overconfidence
- Atul Gawande: On Dressing For Tennis (And Payment Reform)
- Eric's Archived Thoughts: Reset Revisited
- Todd Alcott’s Seven Part Analysis of ‘The Shining’
- Little People, the tiny street art project by Slinkachu
- The world is socialist
2010
- Crotchety Old Power Users
- Dave Does Podcast!
- The Original Birth of Freedom
- 2010: The year in review
- People Who Touch Your Junk
- A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation
- The Ocean’s SOS →
- A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I'm An Atheist
- Let Us Pay
- Peter Orszag: The Shoe That Didn't Drop - James Fallows - Politics
- Interview With Public Radio Tuner Creators Bill Heyman and Damon Allison
- Approval By Numbers: How Obama Compares To Past Presidents
- They Grow Up So Fast
- Todays Best Chicago News, picked by Chicagoans - WindyCitizen.com
- The Glory of the Rails
- The Fall of Niagara Falls
- Stopping the world
- ‘I, Reader’
- WinerLinks and outliners
- SubZin
- The Great Unheard
- Matt Kernan Stands His Ground
- There Will Be Blood
- Urban Guerrillas - Darwin's Theory Of Pelvic Revolution LP : Larry Sahagian, David Loy, Larry Abitz, John Hewitt, Steve Fjelstad : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
- Generations: Gen X and the Cloak of Invisibility
- What Jon Stewart Meant to Tell Rachel Maddow
- The View from Nowhere: Questions and Answers
- Arise, Mechanical Turks, Arise
- Life aboard the International Space Station Science The Guardian
- Are You A Pirate?
- Daniel Ellsberg on the Limits of Knowledge
- Sammy.js with Aaron Quint
- THE JOHNNY CASH PROJECT
- The Future of the Book. on Vimeo
- MacSpeech gets upgraded to Dragon Dictate 2
- What the hell were we thinking?
- Same-sex marriage
- Americans don't know how to die
- Shanghai: 1990 vs. 2010
- Three Weeks in Three Videos
- Voyager 2 stops making sense
- why the lucky stiff
- The Avon Barksdale Story