Curation
Internet content I find insightful, useful, or thought-provoking.
My curations
- Nassim Taleb’s probability theory library
- A semester of probability with Persi Diaconis (suggested reading and accumulated wisdom)
Links I like
- Four Masted Barque rounding Cape Horn, 1928. YouTube.
- Andy Matuschak’s notes
- Novel, inspirational ways to organize knowledge
- David Samuels, “The Happiest Place On Earth: A visit to Switzerland reveals the coming age of techno-Calvinism, created by the merger of iPhones and the new Puritan America
- Public Intellectuals Have Short Shelf Lives – But Why by Tanner Greer
- “There are practical implications for all this. If you are an intellectual, the sort of person whose work consists of generating and implementing ideas, then understand you are working against time. Figure out the most important intellectual problem you think you can help solve and make sure you spend your thirties doing that. Your fifties and sixties are for teaching, judging, managing, leading, and dispensing with wisdom. Your teens and twenties are for gaining skills and locating the problems that matter to you. Your thirties are for solving them.”
- Talking To the Diamond Hands – Party at the Moontower
- On risk and different ways of thinking of it.
- Businesses I Love from The Sweaty Startup
- Interview with Anthony Braxton
- Rediscovering E. Digby Baltzell’s Sociology of Elites — Aaron Renn
- A great summary of the work of sociologist E. Digby Baltzell, who popularized the term WASP and argued for the importance of a generationally-meritocratic upper class in America.
- Beware of tight feedback loops by Brian Lui
- Feedback loops in the presence of noise. World construction -> noisy feedback -> world elimination -> action.
- Process improvement: create many parallel processes and discard those that are unfit, not iterative improvements to a single process
- Performance Matters, CppCon 2020 – Emery Berger
- Familiarity and Belonging by Simon Sarris, as well as Work on these (other) things
- David Perell’s links page
- One of the inspirations for this page.
- Alexey Guzey’s old links page (new)
- Another one of the inspirations for this page. His homepage is also good.
- The Online Books Page
- A site founded by John Mark Ockerbloom in 1993. It is a huge and excellent catalog of links to books available freely online, and great for finding old books.
- John Cook’s blog, for succint posts from an applied mathematician working as a consultant.
- Welcome to the Everything Game and Twilight of the AI Nerds by Jon Stokes
- Quantification is the digestive fluid of software eating the world. What is quantified is easily gamified. Everything that is gamified, sucks.
- “accusations of ‘bad faith,’ ‘virtue signaling,’ ‘disinformation,’ and ‘fake news’ are signature moves in the Everything Game — because the game itself actively frustrates our human intuitions about authenticity by nakedly and explicitly reducing everything to a set of software-mediated experiences that consist of signals, rules, scores, and incentives.”
- ML got discovered by capital and the cool kids rolled in.
- Ted Gioia’s piece on Hermeto Pascoal, the most musical man in the world
- The videos on this page are fantastic. In one, Hermeto plays jazz with a coffee cup.
- Niccolo Soldo’s interviews with Marc Andreessen and James Poulos
- McLuhanomics: The Medium versus the Market by James Poulos.
- Tyler Cowen’s advice on visiting Paris
- The Higher Education Bubble by Erik Torenberg
- “College isn’t insurance—It’s a nightclub. If colleges were normal businesses, with the entire world clamoring to get in, they’d increase enrollment. If they’re offering a great product, more people should benefit from it. But not universities. Because it’s not about learning, it’s about status.”
- “Education has become increasingly a status driven credential, where you simply get it in order to get other things. Everything is about extending optionality. And thus higher ed becomes a way to avoid thinking about the future.”
- On Deck Series A Memo.
- “On Deck is where top talent comes to accelerate their ideas and careers, surrounded by a world-class community.”
- Article about Tyler Cowen’s Emergent Ventures and talent curation by Tony Kulesa
- Homeskoolin’ with Tom Bukovac
- Cast Iron Chaos
- Life advice: become a billionaire by Applied Divinity Studies.
- Advice: How to be a good billionaire by Rohit.
- Career advice compiled by MoontowerMeta
- Alastair Roberts’s full audio commentary on the Bible. I believe the cost of knowing the Bible well has been substantially lowered by the free release of this commentary.
Backlog
Warning: unevaluated!
- Building products at Stripe
- Jonathan Bi interviews David Perell
- Maryam Mirzakhani, Dynamics Moduli Spaces of Curves, Part I
- Rob Henderson’s homepage
- Podcast: Peter Thiel on the Bible
- Ergodicity Economics
- The Brazilianization of the World
- James Burnham’s Managerial Elite
- Personal values by Julian Shapiro
- Peter Norvig’s Probability pytudes
- Parmenides’ poem and SEP article
- The Ramanujan Machine
- Be more productive
- Prof. Sussman’s reading list
- The work of Paul Virilio
- On Deck’s Series A Memo
- Thread of twitter threads by Erik Torenberg
- Driverless crocodile blog
- Friesian School
- https://dwarkeshpatel.com/talent/, https://www.safegraph.com/podcasts/tyler-cowen-identifying-talent-measuring-organizational-capital
- https://www.cbui.dev/how-to-rapidly-improve-at-any-programming-language/
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/09/03/entrepreneurs-are-the-new-labor-part-i/?sh=38b2aeab4eab
- Cornelius Lanczos interview
- fravia.net
- https://fanfarearchive.com/