Here are some blog posts, books and other things which I like.

Short-form

Why?

• Jai Dhyani’s 500 million, but not a single one more
• Holly Elmore’s We are in triage every second of every day
• N K Jemisin’s The ones who stay and fight

What?

• Marc Andreessen’s It’s time to build
• Katherine Boyle’s On seriousness
• Holden Karnofsky’s The most important century

How?

• Scott Alexander’s Nobody is perfect, everything is commensurable
• Sam Altman’s The days are long, but the decades are short
• Taylor Swift’s 2022 NYU commencement speech

Long-form

Philosophy

• Derek Parfit’s Reasons and Persons
• Thomas Scanlon’s Being Realistic About Reasons
• Tyler Cowen’s Stubborn Attachments

Economics

• Thomas Schelling’s Micromotives and Macrobehavior
• Paul Krugman’s The Age of Diminished Expectations
• Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s Poor Economics

Mathematics

• Sheldon Axler’s Linear Algebra Done Right
• Gareth James et al.’s An Introduction to Statistical Learning
• Larry Wasserman’s All of Statistics

STEM

• Daniel Friedman and Matthias Felleisen’s The Little Schemer
• Aditya Bhargava’s Grokking Algorithms
• Bruce Alberts et al.’s Molecular Biology of the Cell

Betting

• David Sklansky’s The Theory of Poker
• Euan Sinclair’s Option Trading
• Agustin Lebron’s The Laws of Trading

Media

TV Shows

• Young Justice
• Person of Interest
• The Newsroom

Movies

• La La Land
• The Social Network
• Too Big to Fail

Documentaries

• Miss Americana
• Free Solo
• Alpha Go