## Meaningful [Life is Short](https://paulgraham.com/vb.html) [The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas](https://shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf) [Sand Dollars](https://sive.rs/232) [A Mathematician's Lament](https://worrydream.com/refs/Lockhart_2002_-_A_Mathematician%27s_Lament.pdf) [The Lesson to Unlearn](https://paulgraham.com/lesson.html) [You and Your Research](https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html) [i woke up on the verge of tears and so i will make myself a big breakfast](https://averymelhado.substack.com/p/i-woke-up-on-the-verge-of-tears-and) [The Problem of the State](https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2022/02/09/the-problem-of-the-state.html) [Meditations on Moloch](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/) [You don’t need to work on hard problems](https://www.benkuhn.net/hard/) [Don't delegate understanding](https://stephango.com/understand) [Save the Robots: Cyberprofiling and Your So-Called Life](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1229522) [I am nothing](https://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2011/08/i-am-nothing.html) [This Ship Has Good Bones](https://katielotz.substack.com/p/this-ship-has-good-bones) [You Are Not Late](https://kk.org/thetechnium/you-are-not-late/) [The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (just between you and me)](https://www.tesla.com/en_gb/secret-master-plan) [The Myth of Sisyphus](https://dbanach.com/sisyphus.htm) [Consider the Lobster](https://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf) [An Existential Guide to Making Friends](https://theshadowedarchive.substack.com/p/an-existential-guide-to-making-friends) [Relentlessly Resourceful](https://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html) [On Self-Respect](https://www.vogue.com/article/joan-didion-self-respect-essay-1961) [You Could Just Choose Optimism](https://quarter--mile.com/You-Could-Just-Choose-Optimism) ## Useful [The Bitter Lesson](http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html) [Acronyms Seriously Suck](https://gist.github.com/klaaspieter/12cd68f54bb71a3940eae5cdd4ea1764) [On becoming competitive when joining a new company](https://ludwigabap.com/posts/On%20becoming%20competitive%20when%20joining%20a%20new%20company) [Galaxy Brain Resistance](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/11/07/galaxybrain.html) [How to Do What You Love](https://paulgraham.com/love.html) [Do Things That Don't Scale](https://paulgraham.com/ds.html) [Dear future undergraduate researcher](https://rosewang2008.github.io/blog/2021/01/03/undergrad-research-advice.html) [Willingness to look stupid](https://danluu.com/look-stupid/) [Optimism Shapes Reality](https://alexw.substack.com/p/optimism-shapes-reality) [Burnout Prevention and Recovery](https://evenmere.org/~bts/RCD/MIT-views.html) [Everything you've been told about burnout is wrong](https://open.substack.com/pub/bscholl/p/everything-youve-been-told-about?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1tagua) [How I Cured My Procrastination](https://learnhowtolearn.org/how-i-cured-procrastination/) [Emails for humans](https://quarter--mile.com/Emails-for-Humans) [No big deal or the end of the world?](https://world.hey.com/jason/no-big-deal-or-the-end-of-the-world-0b0d8619) [How To Get Hired at a Startup](https://quarter--mile.com/How-To-Get-Hired) [Taste for Makers](https://paulgraham.com/taste.html) [Some things I believe (Nat Friedman)](https://nat.org/) [On Being Successful](https://gonen.blog/on-being-successful/) [To listen well, get curious](https://www.benkuhn.net/listen/) ## Written by me [Free Listening](https://kogappa.com/rants/listening/) [Dancing on the Edge](https://kogappa.com/rants/racecar/)