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You can’t finish it, ever. But that doesn’t mean it is a problem you need to solve. It means it’s a selection to taste from.

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I collect these unread articles, books, essays, blog posts, discussions, threads, etc, from my various RSS feeds in Inoreader.

Criteria

I collect things that are time-independent and relevant/interesting (either now or in the future).

Examples:

  • ✅ High-quality material which I’ll have a hard time rediscovering through search
  • ✅ Subjects I’m interested in and know I’ll read through eventually (e.g. parenting)
  • ❌ Anything primarily time-dependent (e.g. politics and news)
  • ❌ (With discretion) Things bigger than me that I cannot affect (e.g. climate change)
  • ❌ Write-ups on specific technologies I don’t expect to read (e.g. latest front-end hotness). I’ll look these up on-demand if necessary.

To watch

Movies

Series

Misc

  • Whirlyball world championship (sports)

To read

Possibly read again!

Books

  • (Watts 1951)
  • The World-Ending Fire
  • Enchiridion of Epictetus
  • The Creative Act
  • The Psychology of Money
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  • Shop Class as Soulcraft

Graphic narrative

Misc

https://fs.blog/compounding-knowledge/ (a)

Flashcards

Show HN: Three Things Daily – Make gratitude a daily habit (a)

99 bits of unsolicited advice (a)

Saying the Difficult Things (a)

What’s it take to be unflappable? (a)

Keep Your Identity Small (2009) (a)

How to Work Hard (a)

The most precious resource is agency (a)

Mise-en-place for knowledge workers (a)

Turning 38; life as a 37-year-old (a)

Follow boring advice (a)

Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable (2005) (a)

Be Intentional with Ben Kuhn (a)

How to get useful answers to your questions (a)

A developer’s guide to programatically overcome fear of failure (a)

How I got wealthy without working too hard (a)

Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction (2019) (a)

What’s your unconventional college or career advice? (a)

Be curious, not judgmental (a)

What are your generalisable heuristics for understanding the world? (a)

Ask HN: What’s Your Biggest Regret? (a)

Ask HN: How to find what I am really good at? (a)

First make the change easy, then make the easy change (2021) (a)

Where are you finding wisdom these days? (a)

Why Men Are Hard to Help (a)

Difficulty of implementation aside: what’s your One Simple Trick that would unlock the most amount of humanity’s locked up potential? (a)

How to be less agreeable (a)

How do SSC approach determine the appropriate length for delaying gratification? (a)

The definitive guide to “modulo bias” and how to avoid it (2020) (a)

The privilege of being relatable; how often do you filter what you say for the sake of fitting in? (a)

Ask HN: How can I come to peace with the years I wasted on pointless things? (a)

Low conscientiousness advice and insights thread (a)

Moving Lightly Through the World (a)

I’m an 18 year old developer. How do I become one of the best programmers ever? (a)

Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become (a)

What to Do When You’re Feeling Drained (a)

On the Shortness of Life (a)

No More “Insight Porn” (a)

A Guide to Practicing Trust (a)

Forer Statements As Updates And Affirmations (a)

The Balanced Path: An Open Heart Without Taking on Suffering (a)

Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment? (a)

We don’t do that here (2017) (a)

The Most Useful Question to Ask About Expertise (a)

Fake Vulnerability, Risk Aversion and You (a)

Ask HN: I’m in a rut. How did you get out of yours? (a)

How to Have a Powerfully Effective Day (a)

Giving a shit as a service (a)

Algorithms for Decision Making (a)

Seven ways to become unstoppably agentic (a)

How to make decisions like a poker player (a)

Tell HN: The loneliness of a pretty good developer (a)

Looking for advice in navigating early my 40’s (a)

Men Will Literally Have Completely Different Mental Processes Instead Of Going To Therapy (a)

Ask HN: What do you wish you had done/known in your 30s? (a)

Looking for advice in navigating late 20’s and early 30’s (a)

Ask HN: How did you overcome perfectionism? (a)

5 Ways to Simplify Your Life (a)

How to waste time and overcomplicate things (a)

Disaster Planning for Regular Folks (a)

Do, Then Think (a)

Feynman’s advice to W&M student resonates 45 years later (2020) (a)

Why Perfectionism Stops Us from Creating New Habits (a)

Simplifying Our Mental View (a)

Every thought about personal finance I’ve ever had, as concisely as possible (a)

Show HN: Get advice from a GPT3-based stoic philosopher (a)

We Make Everything Harder (a)

10 Ways to Avoid Being Fooled (a)

The Wisdom of Non-Effort (a)

Interesting question crossposting here: What do you believe are the best algorithms for daily life, implementable by a typical human who passed high school, and understands the basics of probability? (a)

Ask HN: What is the best advice you got on any aspect of life? (a)

When feeling worn out, rotate (a)

Deepen in Each Moment (a)

Ask HN: How do you deal with information and internet addiction? (a)

Best and worst decisions I’ve made (a)

You don’t have to engage with people on the Internet (a)

Telling your inner critic to chill (a)

The art of knowing when to quit (a)

What irrational beliefs do you hold/inclined to hold? (a)

Stop assuming so much (a)

How to Bounded Distrust (a)

What was something you wish you did early? (a)

Early-Life Crisis: How Do I Not Get Crippled by Self-Comparisons? (a)

Surviving disillusionment (2020) (a)

Staring into the abyss as a core life skill (a)

We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom (2021) (a)

Richard Feynman on looking at the world from another point of view (1973) (a)

What I do when I feel like giving up (2015) (a)

Keep Your Identity Small (2009) (a)

Be less scared of overconfidence (a)

What’s the difference, if any, between a life true to yourself and the life others expect of you? (a)

Underrated reasons to be thankful (a)

Underrated reasons to be thankful (a)

Ask HN: Again: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma (a)

[[https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1590885711611588608 (a)][A survey of every Swedish economist found the economics concept that would benefit the most people to understand is “opportunity cost.”

It is what you give up when you make a choice. Not just what you don’t buy, but also what you could have done by saving 💰 for later. Relevant!]]

:CREATED: [2022-11-11 Fri 01:54]

How I survived a year in ’the hole’ without losing my mind (a)

Ask HN: Advice that changed your life? (a)

Existential dread of turning 24 (a)

The PoWeR technique: a strategic approach to self-discipline (a)

Never waste a midlife crisis (a)

Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live is a beautiful relic – and the end of an era (a)

Solve your big problems by solving your real problem (a)

The Resourceful Life (a)

Ways to say no with grace and style (2021) (a)

Ferengi Rules of Acquisition (a)

In praise of blowing up your life (a)

Painful Lesson: Always ‘Show and Tell’ Your Product Before You Develop It (a)

Willingness to Look Stupid (a)

What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020) (a)

It’s time to embrace slow productivity (2022) (a)

Getting Stuff Done by Not Being Mean to Yourself (2010) (a)

Vint Cerf’s career advice for engineers (a)

Do the weirdest thing that feels right (a)

The businessman and the fisherman (1963) (a)

You and Your Research (1986) (a)

Improbably Right (a)

How to care more (about anything, but my personal goals especially) (a)

Recommendations about learning to spot grifters, con artist and marketing manipulation? (a)

What is the one piece of advice you would give your younger self in tech? (a)

How to do hard things (a)

I get it. If you can use “Bayes Theorem” to a daily life decision in a neat way, do so. But what other tactics greatly boost daily life reasoning? (a)

Brainstorm questions not ideas (a)

The Anti-Productivity Manifesto (a)

Call yourself titles (a)

The Coffeeshop Fallacy (2011)

The 24 Hour “Do Nothing” Challenge (a)

Curve into the target (a)

Life is a game, this is your strategy guide (2014) (a)

Superlinear Returns (a)

The 99% principle for personal problems (a)

Elon’s decision making: an anecdote compilation (a)

Intimacy does not scale (2021) (a)

Don’t be afraid to be wrong (a)

The “Do Something About It” Club (a)

Don’t “find” your niche, “develop” it (a)

How do I learn to be persistent? (a)

Cultivating Obsession (a)

Mistakes You Should Never Make (2014) (a)

Coping with what you can’t change or control (a)

A note to young folks: download the things you love (a)

Bjarne Stroustrup Shares Life Advice (a)

Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company (2019) (a)

The days are long but the decades are short (2015) (a)

What techniques are available/worthwhile for slowing down the (feeling of the) passage of time? (a)

Divide your life into semesters, even when you’re not in school (a)

Ask HN: What is your experience in tech consulting? (a)

The Art of Money Getting or Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum (1880) (a)

Mistakes to avoid to build a better 1-person business (a)

Startup Playbook (a)

Organization probably doesn’t want to improve things (a)

The Advice SaaS Startup Founders Would Give Their Younger Selves (a)

How to write a resume that converts (a)

The “self-made” myth: Why hard work isn’t enough to reach the top (a)

The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday (a)

Always Do Extra (a)

ε/δ Thinking (a)

It is your responsibility to follow up (2019) (a)

Quitting the rat race (a)

On Becoming a VP of Engineering (a)

On Becoming a VP of Engineering pt. 2 (a)

How to Do Great Work (a)

Get It Done (a)

Senior staffs/principals, who/what do you look up to for guidance? (a)

Want an unfair advantage in your tech career? Consume content for other roles (a)

What I Learned at Stripe (a)

Thoughts on how to form and share stronger opinions? (a)

Building Personal and Organizational Prestige (a)

When your coworker does great work, tell their manager (2020) (a)

How do I get rid of my ego? (a)

Is my advice too mercenary? (a)

I’m a very slow thinker (2016) (a)

Niched SWE - How did you efficiently become “So Good they can’t ignore you”? (a)

How to act like a Staff engineer while surrounded by brilliant Seniors? (a)

How to communicate when trust is low without digging yourself into a deeper hole (a)

On disdain for System 1 thinking and emotions and gut feelings in general (a)

The joy and freedom of harmlessly upsetting social norms (a)

“Don’t waffle, give a ‘‘‘simple’’’ answer.” (a)

Ask HN: Do you look angry while you work? (a)

What do you guys do with your ’ tired free time ’ at the end of your days? (a)

What is your unethical CS career’s advice? (a)

What did you learn as an Experienced Dev about Business/People that most people don’t know? (a)

Who is the most impressive software developer you know and what about them impresses you? (a)

Ask HN: What is the best advice you received in 2022? (a)

Identify a remarkable trait in anyone, then either copy or avoid it (a)

Advice for Young Scientists–and Curious People in General (a)

Decision Fatigue (a)

Amateurs obsess over tools, pros over mastery (a)

Mental Liquidity (a)

Having a small identity footprint (a)

The Biggest Mistake I See Engineers Make (a)

The art and science of spending money (a)

Ask HN: How to break anxiety/fear-avoidance cycle? (a)

Ask HN: How do you work on your mental health? (a)

Life Is Short (2016) (a)

Ask HN: Feeling burned out at an early stage in my career (a)

Lots of people focus on how to raise your IQ\intelligence\productivity. Let’s talk about the contrapositive – how not to lower your IQ\intelligence\productivity? (a)

Ask HN: How do you know when you are burning out? (a)

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (a)

Reading fast, reading well, and reading widely (a)

Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests (a)

Discovering Ourselves (a)

Merlin’s Wisdom Project (a)

How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016) (a)

Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes” (2011) (a)

How young people should deal with a future dominated by AI (a)

Repeat Yourself, a Lot (a)

Managing mental health while running a startup (a)

[Algorithms for Decision Making pdf (a)]

Some mistakes I made as a new manager (a)

Mistakes I made as an engineer, but had to become a manager to see (a)

Moving From Desire to Action (a)

Find Freedom in Any Moment (a)

How to Be Useless (a)

The Urgency of Piles (a)

3 Questions to Create Your Life (a)

Ask HN: Thoughts on being “boring” (a)

Mastering the Art of Letting Go (a)

Slow days, weeks, months, years (a)

A Nihilist’s Guide to Meaning (2016) (a)

Excellence is a habit, but so is failure (a)

If you succeed you will fail (a)

Ask HN: What mindset change made the biggest positive change for you? (a)

Screw productivity lifehacks, what are you hacks for a more meaningful life? (a)

[Don’t Talk to Police (2012) video (a)]

Relax for the same result (2015) (a)

60+ hour weeks this fall - how do the busiest among you manage your time? What made the biggest difference? (a)

Ambition as an anxiety disorder (a)

Why don’t we have a strategy? (a)

How to Tackle a Mountain of Tasks (a)

The constant regret of slacking off and yet it is constant (a)

Lessons from a Pessimist: Make Your Pessimism Productive (a)

How to Be Successful (2019) (a)

Shamelessness as a strategy (2019) (a)

The Honest Broker: My 8 best techniques for evaluating character (a)

Telling it like it is (a)

A Response to Jacob Kaplan-Moss’s “Incompetent but Nice” (a)

Ask HN: How do I develop focus? (a)

The Joy of Letting Go (a)

Pliny the Younger on Happy and Honorable Seclusion (a)

My 2022 self was wrong about meditation, monitors, and sleep (a)

Screw motivation, what you need is discipline (a)

Procrastination and the priority of short-term mood regulation (a)

What Can I Do With My Time as a Substitute for Strategy Computer Games? (a)

Create optimal conditions for lucky things to happen to you (2020) (a)

Spend Your Time Intentionally (a)

Staring into the abyss as a core life skill (a)

Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s? (a)

Ideas that changed my life (a)

I give up too easily and it’s ruining my life. (a)

No cure for loneliness (a)

Gratitude is a secret weapon for attracting more opportunities (a)

Choose Boring Technology (2018) (a)

A Senior Engineer’s Check-List (2019) (a)

Engineer’s Guide to Career Growth: Advice from My Time at Stripe and Facebook (a)

Software Engineering Insights from 10 Years at Google

What coding practices have you come to rely on in your career? (a)

All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people (2019) (a)

[[https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1590539101526454273 (a)][A real lesson of the Medici is not the ruthlessness of The Prince (written for later generations), but the sphinx-like nature of dynasty founder Cosimo de’ Medici.

His power came from his inscrutability, which made everyone try to serve him. Famous paper: stats.ox.ac.uk/~snijders/Padg…]]

:CREATED: [2022-11-10 Thu 02:57]

What happened to blogging for the hell of it? (a)

Ask HN: At 45, I can’t seem to read as well anymore (a)

Preparing for middle age (a)

Turning 40: a review of the last decade (a)

We’re All Just Temporarily Abled (a)

Life Has Several Exits (a)

Turning 40; life as a 39-year-old (a)

On being ready to die, and yet also now being able to swallow ice cream (a)

Paper about how parties/ceremonies are life changing? (a)

Nacirema (a)

Human Exceptionalism (a)

Social media may prevent users from reaping creative rewards of profound boredom (a)

Louvre makes its entire collection available online (a)

Why aesthetics matter to the success of ideologies and movements (a)

Infiltration - the zine about going places you’re not supposed to go (a)

Dancing is stupid (a)

How to Paint Like Hayao Miyazaki (a)

Would go well with “Meditations on Moloch”. “The twentieth century - Be embraced, you millions!” — Cover of the Austrian Die Muskete Magazine (1916) showing the machine of war smothering the masses. (a)

Thelonious Monk’s Tips for Musicians (1960) (a)

Why Is Everything So Ugly? (a)

The Voyage of Life (a)

Woodworking through the mind of an engineer (a)

[[https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1588701529472905219 (a)][Ethan Mollick retweeted:

The Old Gods twitter.com/emollick/statu…]]

:CREATED: [2022-11-05 Sat 01:15]

Why early modern books are so beautiful (a)

EXP TV – endless stream of obscure media and video ephemera (a)

Miyazaki’s Magical Food: An ode to anime’s best cooking scenes (a)

Icon Buddy – 100K+ Open Source SVG Icons, Fully Customizable (a)

Bringing 19th century ornamental tile illustrations into a 21st century web app (a)

TimeMaps (a)

Laws of UX (a)

Graphic design items from Internet Archive (a)

Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020) (a)

Tarkovsky’s films online for free (a)

The “baseline” scene in bladerunner 2049 was written by Ryan Gosling (2022) (a)

The unintentional dystopian beauty of oil rigs (a)

The Interstellar Style of Sun Ra (2016) (a)

Commercially Available Chairs in Star Trek (a)

What is the Demoscene? An obscure but influential art form (a)

Wikimedia Commons: Photographs by Gage Skidmore (a)

Alexis Kennedy’s Games (a)

Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design (2018) (a)

Lifers, Dayjobbers, and the Independently Wealthy: A Letter to a Former Student (a)

I plan to leave tech to pursue art (a)

Please Let Me Monetize My Hobbies (a)

The age of average (a)

Visual design rules you can safely follow (a)

Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020) (a)

When is the revolution in architecture coming? (a)

Ask HN: Anyone here have good material for learning how to sketch from scratch? (a)

Aesthetics Wiki: List of Aesthetics. From synthwave to grandparentcore to dark academia to 1950’s suburbia (a)

Classical music is for everyone (a)

Craft (a)

Our attention span is being robbed (a)

Yak Shaving: A Short Lesson on Staying Focused (2018) (a)

John Carmack on avoiding distractions (a)

How I Regained Concentration and Focus (a)

My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span (a)

Human attention has become a commodity (a)

The currency of the new economy won’t be money, but attention (1997) (a)

The ‘attention economy’ corrupts science (a)

Is Gen Z becoming dumber? (a)

Ask HN: How to Focus Again? (a)

Attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen (2022) (a)

Focus is saying no to good ideas (a)

Focus Is Saying No To Good Ideas (a)

You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? (2018) (a)

Notes on end-to-end biology (a)

Introduction to Genomics for Engineers (a)

Hereditarian left (a)

Your Book Review: The Mind Of A Bee (a)

How are we biologically different from people 150 years ago? (a)

You Don’t Want A Purely Biological, Apolitical Taxonomy Of Mental Disorders (a)

You Don’t Want A Purely Biological, Apolitical Taxonomy Of Mental Disorders (a)

The rise of biodigital surveillance (a)

Software engineers: consider working on genomics (a)

Unsong, a fantasy novel where the universe is programmable with Hebrew (2015) (a)

Summary of Atomic Habits (a)

The Fundamentals of Control Theory (a)

How blindsight answers the hard problem of consciousness (a)

Reading Soviet Sci-Fi at the End of the World (a)

Anything You Want — third edition for 2022 (a)

Visual book notes: Influence is Your Superpower - Zoe Chance (2022) (a)

Your Book Review: The Society Of The Spectacle (a)

Your Book Review: The Internationalists (a)

They’re made out of meat (1991) (a)

They’re Made out of Meat (a)

How To Know Everything (a)

Your Book Review: Public Choice Theory And The Illusion Of Grand Strategy (a)

Book Review – The Fourth Turning (a)

Book Review: Talent (a)

Book Review: Talent (a)

The Last Question (a)

Your Book Review: Making Nature (a)

Your Book Review: Making Nature (a)

Book Review: The Gervais Principle (a)

Your Book Review: Consciousness And The Brain (a)

Your Book Review: Consciousness And The Brain (a)

Book Review: The Gervais Principle (a)

Highlights From The Comments On “Sadly, Porn” (a)

Book review: Very Important People (a)

Review: Václav Havel’s “The Power of the Powerless” (a)

Book review: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (a)

Lisp in Small Pieces

Algorithms for Decision Making (a)

Book Review: Crazy Like Us (a)

The Mediocre Programmer (a)

Book Review: The Geography Of Madness (a)

The Mysteries by Bill Watterson (a)

“The problem with merit is that merit itself has become so sought after. That is, by implementing meritocracy, we inevitably create perverse incentives to get ahead and make it look like we deserve our success, even when we cheated every step along the way.” —Book Review: The Tyranny of Merit (a)

A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network (a)

Ask HN: Books you read in 2022 and recommend for 2023 (a)

Accelerando (2005) (a)

Book Review: First Sixth Of Bobos In Paradise (a)

Book Review: Malleus Maleficarum (a)

Book Review: Rhythms Of The Brain (a)

Book Review: Rhythms Of The Brain (a)

Your Book Review: On the Marble Cliffs (a)

The Overflowing Brain: Information overload and the limits of working memory (a)

Patterns of Distributed Systems (a)

Your Book Review: Public Citizens (a)

Your Book Review: Man’s Search for Meaning (a)

Your Book Review: Man’s Search for Meaning (a)

Book Review: How Minds Change (a)

Your Book Review: Lying for Money (a)

A novel the CIA spent a fortune to suppress (a)

Book Review: Wild Problems by Russ Roberts (a)

Your Book Review: Cities And The Wealth Of Nations/The Question Of Separatism (a)

Book Review: The Arctic Hysterias (a)

Book Review: The Arctic Hysterias (a)

Read “Gravity’s Rainbow” fifty years later (a)

Book review: Going Infinite (a)

Tao Te Ching (a)

Aldous Huxley’s Deep Reflection (a)

Book Review: Elon Musk (a)

Your Book Review: Zuozhuan (a)

Tolkien, 50 Years On (a)

[Advanced Situational Awareness pdf (a)]

Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks (2017) (a)

The Design of Everyday Things – Book Summary and Notes (a)

Julia Galef and her new book The Scout Mindset (a)

Book Review: How Asia Works (a)

I read a book that blew my mind a little (a)

Your Book Review: Humankind (a)

Is this a good book for me, now? (a)

Book Review Contest: Winners (a)

Book Review: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Eating (a)

What Diet Books Don’t Teach: A book review and a request for more reading (a)

Book review request: Brain Energy, by Christopher M. Palmer (a)

Your Book Review: How Children Fail (a)

Some Books that Have Influenced Me during the Past Decade (a)

Books I loved reading this year (a)

What is that one self-improvement book which you liked enough to read a second time? (a)

Ask HN: What’s the best book you read in 2021? (a)

Ask HN: What book have you re-read 3x or more? (a)

Ask HN: Which book would you pick to re-read for the rest of your life? (a)

ACX Book Rating (a)

Updated list of good non fiction books to read? (a)

Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study? (a)

Ask HN: What book changed your life? (a)

The Books I Read in February 2022 (a)

All of Gwern’s book reviews - sorted by his favourites (a)

Every Book I Read in 2022 (a)

Books for Software Engineers in 2023 (a)

Best non-fiction book(s) you have read this year? (a)

What would you want to add to a SSC Reading list? (a)

Ask HN: Which books have made you a better thinker and problem solver? (a)

A Reading Journey (a)

SBF says that most books should have been blog posts. Which books are really great in light of this? (a)

Books/advice about living a “non traditional” life (a)

Five Books: The best books on everything (a)

Ask HN: What books helped you in your entrepreneurship journey? (a)

Dive into Deep Learning (a)

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (2003) (a)

The Staff Engineer’s Path - Book Review (a)

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an in-depth explainer (a)

[The Elements of Statistical Learning pdf (a)]

Your Book Review: The Anti-Politics Machine (a)

Goliath by Matt Stoller (a)

Book Review: The Programmer’s Brain (a)

Data-Oriented Design (2018) (a)

Grokking Simplicity: Taming complex software with functional thinking (a)

How to Design Programs (2023) (a)

Books that changed my career as a software engineer (a)

A non-standard book list for software developers (a)

Writing summaries is more important than reading more books (a)

Your competitor wrote the RFP you’re bidding on (a)

Corporate power plays (a)

Gitlab’s Startup Acquisition Process (a)

Revenue is easy, profit is harder (a)

Ask HN: Whatever Happened To Freelancing? (a)

Explorers are bad leaders (a)

If co-ops and mutuals are better, why are they so rare? Vanguard and the mutualist paradox. (a)

Contracts you should never sign (a)

How I ruined my SEO (a)

Part II: The failure points from $5M to $100M in ARR (a)

Be where your business is (a)

New industries come from crazy people (2021) (a)

Ask HN: What’s a build vs. buy decision that you got wrong? (a)

The simplest app that makes money (a)

I am done. I give up (a)

Is This a Moat: Mailchimp and PayPal’s Algorithmic Advantage (a)

It’s Time for ‘Maximum Viable Product’ (a)

Ask HN: How do you start a startup in your 30s when you have wife/kids/mortgage? (a)

Betting on Things That Never Change (a)

[[https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1589315227069599744 (a)][Ethan Mollick retweeted:

While this paper is about entrepreneurs, it it also gives a general rule for when it is time to stop exploring alternatives & start doing something:

Explore until you find two equally good options. Then pick the one that matches your goals & get to work! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…]]

:CREATED: [2022-11-06 Sun 17:54]

The Workplace Is Rigged to Favor Morning People (a)

Excuse me, is there a problem? (a)

Renaming the Business Expertise Triad (a)

The Skill of Capital (a)

Zoom fatigue unpacked (a)

When Action Beats Prediction (a)

Building a Valuable Business? It’s How You Spend It That Matters (a)

Why we bootstrap (a)

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[[https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1589087305255464962 (a)][While this paper is about entrepreneurs, it it also gives a general rule for when it is time to stop exploring alternatives & start doing something:

Explore until you find two equally good options. Then pick the one that matches your goals & get to work! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…]]

:CREATED: [2022-11-06 Sun 02:48]

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[[https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1589421511802519552 (a)][We exchange verbal information with each other at 39 bits/second. https://t.co/eQbsqiX1PW (a)

Quoted tweet from @emollick:

No matter the language, we exchange information at 39 bits/second, suggesting a biological limit. Languages that are lower information density are spoken fast (Spanish & Japanese) while denser languages are spoken more slowly (Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese). advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/ea… https://t.co/NRZh2wud18 (a)]]

:CREATED: [2022-11-07 Mon 00:56]

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The biggest boosts to creativity were sleep & mulling over ideas after work (meaning you had to leave work)]]

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[[https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1590708277897097217 (a)][So I posted to my new Substack about two graphs that should haunt every manager: as team size grows, there are more opportunities for collaboration, but also an increase in slacking & communication costs.

The solution? Increase collective intelligence. oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/the-problem-…]]

:CREATED: [2022-11-10 Thu 14:09]

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This paper argues that left-wing & right-wing ideology can be explained in part by our views of moral universalism: do we have the same altruism & trust towards strangers as we do to our in-group?

Traditional political views map well onto this framework, but there’s more… 1/2 https://t.co/V1QhxrzHz1 (a)]]

:CREATED: [2022-11-04 Fri 18:15]

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This paper outlines 7 classes of errors that destroy strategic decisions, ending with the epic-sounding Type VII Iatrogensis Cascade.

If you understand these errors, you will know what questions to ask to avoid strategic failures. So, a 🧵on seven types of errors… 1/9 https://t.co/wRsrdARVsk (a)]]

:CREATED: [2022-11-07 Mon 23:55]

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[[https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1588890091706949632 (a)][Ethan Mollick retweeted:

Read these 3 pages. I post them every so often because I think it is some of the tightest, wisdom-packed writing on managing complex systems ever.

And almost every system is a complex system today, which is why cascading failures are swirling around us. researchgate.net/publication/22…]]

:CREATED: [2022-11-05 Sat 13:44]

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If you understand these errors, you will know what questions to ask to avoid strategic failures. So, a 🧵on seven types of errors… 1/9 https://t.co/wRsrdARVsk (a)]]

:CREATED: [2022-11-06 Sun 01:28]

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