### My favorites [Yesterday](https://archive.is/20240112053727/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/09/yesterday-haruki-murakami) [How to Do What You Love](https://paulgraham.com/love.html) Warning, these are about suicide: [Men Who Kill Themselves](https://open.substack.com/pub/metropolitanreview/p/men-who-kill-themselves) [Good Old Neon](https://sdavidmiller.com/octo/files/no_google2/GoodOldNeon.pdf) ### Shorter [232 Sand Dollars](https://sive.rs/232) [The Problem of the State](https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2022/02/09/the-problem-of-the-state.html) [You don’t need to work on hard problems](https://www.benkuhn.net/hard/) [Don't delegate understanding](https://stephango.com/understand) [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) [Relentlessly Resourceful](https://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html) [Sailors and Rowers](https://www.quarter--mile.com/Sailors-and-Rowers) [Reality has a surprising amount of detail](http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail) [Weights and Biases](https://aidanjs.com/blog/biases-weights/) [You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss](https://paulgraham.com/boss.html) [Good People](https://archive.is/20150121062228/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/02/05/good-people) [The Bitter Lesson](http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html) [Speed matters](https://jsomers.net/blog/speed-matters) [There’s no speed limit](https://sive.rs/kimo) [Mutually Assured Mediocrity](https://staysaasy.com/saas/2025/02/17/judge.html) [Emails for humans](https://quarter--mile.com/Emails-for-Humans) [Optimism Shapes Reality](https://alexw.substack.com/p/optimism-shapes-reality) [Everything you've been told about burnout is wrong](https://open.substack.com/pub/bscholl/p/everything-youve-been-told-about) [How I Cured My Procrastination](https://learnhowtolearn.org/how-i-cured-procrastination/) [How To Get Hired at a Startup](https://quarter--mile.com/How-To-Get-Hired) ### Longer [My techno-optimism](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html) [The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas](https://shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf) [The Lesson to Unlearn](https://paulgraham.com/lesson.html) [Meditations on Moloch](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/) [A Mathematician's Lament](https://worrydream.com/refs/Lockhart_2002_-_A_Mathematician%27s_Lament.pdf) [Galaxy Brain Resistance](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/11/07/galaxybrain.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/) [If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/if-you-let-ai-do-your-writing-i-will)