Resources that have shaped how I think — essays, articles and seminal texts worth your time. The blogs I read regularly have their own page.
Articles and blogs
- 1000 True Fans — Kevin Kelly
- How to Do Philosophy — Paul Graham, 2007
- How to Write Usefully — Paul Graham, 2020
- 100 Little Ideas — Morgan Housel
- Life is Short — Paul Graham, 2016
- Climbing the Wrong Hill — Chris Dixon
- On Keeping a Notebook — Joan Didion
- Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully — Stephen King
- The Real Problem — Anil K. Seth — on consciousness
- Twelve Virtues of Rationality — Eliezer Yudkowsky
- When I’m Not Writing — Literary Hub
- How to Pick a Career That Actually Fits You — Tim Urban
- You Owe Me an Argument — Rachel Fraser
- Just Give Me My Equality — Teresa M. Bejan
Seminal essays
- Famine, Affluence and Morality — Peter Singer, 1972
- On Liberty — John Stuart Mill, 1859
- The Catastrophe of Success — Tennessee Williams, 1947
- Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor — Rob Nixon, 2013