A list of books/resources/blogs i've enjoyed / learn't a lot from. Some have notes:

  • The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?
  • The tinkerings of Robert Noyce
  • Impact, agency and taste
  • A dying industry dies a bit more
  • June 2020 Wave Hunting – Kunle
  • Confidence All The Way Up – Minding Our Way
  • The Cultural Narrative – Questioner (Substack)
  • Russell Napier: The World Will Experience a Capex Boom – The Market
  • Concave Thinking – Vitalik Buterin
  • Intimations – Brett P. Andersen
  • An Interview with Rippling Founder Parker Conrad – Stratechery
  • Startup Ideas – Paul Graham
  • Lego Mindset vs Woodworking Mindset – Scott Stevenson
  • In Defense of Not Invented Here Syndrome – Joel on Software
  • On Tools for Thought – Kepano (Twitter/X)
  • On Product Design and Simplicity – Karri Saarinen (Twitter/X)
  • Two Types of Knowledge – Farnam Street
  • Desperation-Induced Focus – RKG Blog
  • Water – RKG Blog
  • Where Coulds Go – Minding Our Way
  • Kimo – Derek Sivers
  • Do Not End the Week with Nothing – Patrick McKenzie
  • This is Water – David Foster Wallace (YouTube)
  • On Focus and Craft – Thomas Grizzle (Twitter/X)
  • Microsoft, Monopoly, and Dominance – Benedict Evans
  • Asymmetric Outcomes – Wealest
  • Stay in the Game – Albert Bridge Capital
  • The Three Sides of Risk – Morgan Housel (Collaborative Fund)
  • Aggregation Theory – Ben Thompson (Stratechery)
  • Luck and the Entrepreneur – Marc Andreessen (PM Archive)
  • Functions – Ryan Singer
  • Embracing the Improbable – Kevin Kelly (The Technium)
  • How to Think – Farnam Street
  • How and Why SpaceX Will Colonize Mars – Wait But Why
  • Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (YouTube)
  • The Mythical Man-Month (PDF) – Frederick P. Brooks
  • They Targeted Gamers – Questioner (Substack)
  • The Cultural Narrative – Questioner (Substack)
  • Soft Power – The Generalist
  • Your Startup Is a Movement – David Sacks (Substack)
  • The Cadence: How to Operate a SaaS Startup – David Sacks (Substack)
  • Intimations – Brett Andersen (Substack)
  • An Interview with Rippling Founder Parker Conrad – Stratechery
  • Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC
  • Anduril - The Amusement part for engineers
  • Capital will matter more than ever after AGI
  • Annas Archive
  • There is no speed limit - Derek Sivers