Favorite blog post and YouTube videos by topic
Advice
- The days are long but the decades are short * - Sam Altman
- Advice - Patrick Collison
- What should you do with your life - Guzey
- The Only Two Pieces of Advice You’ll Ever Need - Tyler Cowen
- Advice for ambitious teenagers - Laura Demmings
- Favorite essays of life advice - Ben Kuhn
- Sam Altman on Choosing Projects, Creating Value, and Finding Purpose (YouTube)
Agency
- The most precious resource is agency by Simon Harris
- How to Create Luck - Max Dalton, YC (YouTube)
- What's Stopping You? - Neel Nanda
Start-ups
- Pretty much all PG start-up related essays...
- Startup advice and Startup advice, briefly by Sam Altman
- #Define CTO - Greg Brockman
- Enstil.ai postmortem - Aman Sanger
Writing
- Paul Graham, 'Putting ideas into words'
- Michael Nielsen, 'How to use a personal website to enhance your ability to think and create?'
- Alexey Guzey, 'Why You Should Start a Blog Right Now'
- James Somers, 'More people should write'
Perspectives
- Ideas that changed my life - Morgan Housel via CollabFund
Fun
- How do I draw a pair of buttocks?
- Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics - Dynomight
- The Legend of Jeff Dean
Fiction
- The businessman and the fisherman - original variant by Heinrich Böll I believe
- The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant - Nick Bostrom
- The Gentle Seduction - Marc Stiegler