Recommendations

Here’s some stuff that I’ve found thought provoking, useful, or just cool.

Essays

In progress!

Some people who consistently write things worth reading.

“You all have a little bit of “I want to save the world” in you. I want you to know that it’s okay if you only save one person, and it’s okay if that person is you.” (from Evan Chen, it looks like original is lost?)

Some favorite tweets:

“it’s weird how early on in the tech tree ‘land a human on the moon and bring them home safely’ was” - @airkatakana
“favorite exercise for this is opening a new doc, writing down the goal and just CoTing [chain of thought] the 80IQ obvious things one should do to achieve it. you’d think this wouldn’t help but results often impress” - @nearcyan, in response to @sama: “the best way to get good at something is usually to just practice actually doing the thing in question. a lot of very capable people outsmart themselves with complex plans that involve working a lot on fake prerequisites.”
“‘power corrupts’ is a targeted memetic virus. It’s designed to work on those with integrity, so they stop competing, leaving empty seats for those who show up to seize it” - @DefenderOfBasic

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