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things i've read, watched & listened to — and liked.

Content I Like

Sivers - Focus

Sivers' Berklee speech. I particularly like the part about focus.

Paul Graham - How to earn a billion dollars

Make stuff people want.

Paul Graham - How to work hard

How to do great work.

Marc Lou documents his way to $20,000 MRR

Marc Lou takes a business to $1M valuation

High Agency dot com

First principles thinking and self belief is most of what you need.

On Marriage

Poem on love and togetherness.

The Greatest Books

An aggregated ranking of the best books of all time.

Every Noise at Once

A scrollable map of every music genre in existence.

How to build an economic model in your spare time

Plain english guide to building economic models.

List of important papers from Brett V

Curated reference list of influential papers.

List of important memos from Sriram K

Collection of influential internal memos.

World Travel Guide

List of original travel writing by country. Curated by Patrick Collison.

Teach yourself CS

A self-study curriculum for Computer Science.

Blogs I Love

Derek Sivers

Short, contrarian essays on life, business, and doing your own thing.

Paul Graham

The Y Combinator co-founder's essays on startups, ideas, and how to think.

Sriram Krishnan

Writing on technology, investing, and building products.

Bartosz Ciechanowski

Gorgeous interactive explainers of how things work, from gears to GPS.

Brett Victor

Visionary essays and demos on tools for thought and creative computing.

Life Advice

Sam Altman

Patrick Collison

Alexey Guzey

Paul Graham - How to do what you love

Nate Soares - Collide with life

Bryan Braun - Your life in months

What to Work On, according to

Y Combinator

A random google doc I found

Patrick Collison

Tyler Cowen

Gwern

Nintil

Puzzles & Problems

Cut the Knot

Project Euler

CSE Blog

FiveThirtyEight

IBM