Occasionally, I stumble upon an online article or a podcast which I find interesting, worth reading, listening to or thinking about. Below, I will try to keep an up-to-date list of such articles. 📅 Updated Feb 15th 2026.
2025/12: ‘2025 Letter’ (on AI and life) by Zhengdong Wang
2025/11: ‘The advice I would give on a mentorship call’ by Avital Balwit
2025/08: ‘In praise of quitting’ by Cate Hall
2024/10: ‘Reflections on Palantir’ by Nabeel S. Quershi
2024/09: ‘The Mr. Beast Memo is a Guide to the Gen Z Workforce’ by Kyla Scanlon
2024/07: ‘Playing With Guns (and Phones)’ by Nadia Asparouhova
2024/07: ‘Lessons learned in 35 years of making software’ + ‘The farther you go up the ladder, the less it’s about your technical skills’ by Jim Grey
2024/06: ‘I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again’ by Nikhil Suresh (Ludicity)
2024/02: ‘What to do when you don’t know what to do’ by Pete Fuller
2024/01: ‘The Ethos of the Divine Age’ by @bayeslord and Nadia Asparouhova
2023/12: ‘How bad are search results? Let’s compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT’ by Dan Luu
2023/08: ‘Happiness is bullshit’ by David Pinsof
2023/07: ‘If You Are Going To San Francisco… (My 22 Tips and Tricks on Networking in the City)’ by Natalia Bielczyk
2023/06: ‘The Worst Game Ever Made (Moontower Munchies #20)’ by Kris Abdelmessih
2023/06: ‘Silicon Valley’s Civil War’ by Nadia Asparouhova
2023/04: ‘Explaining tech’s notion of talent scarcity’ by Nadia Asparouhova
2023/03: ‘I’ve been employed in tech for years, but I’ve almost never worked’ by Emmanuel Maggiori
2023/02: ‘Spending As Self-Discovery’ by Kris Abdelmessih
2022/12: ‘Is Europe Just Not Good at Innovating?’ by Bert Hubert
2022/12: ‘Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning’ by Jürgen Schmidhuber
2022/11: ‘Choose Good Quests’ & ‘Surviving and Thriving in Tech’s New Winter’ by Pirate Wires (Mike Solana)
2021/12: ‘Here’s how to live: Master something.’ by Derek Sivers
2021/05: ‘The 33 most effective productivity hacks I’ve come across in 10 years’ by LaTeX Ninja
2020/12: ‘Involvement Capitalism’ by Venkatesh Rao
2020/09: ‘The 450 Method’ by James Heathers
2019/10: ‘A forty-year career.’ by Will Larson (lethain)
2019/01: ‘Meeting people.’ by Will Larson (lethain)
2018/10: ‘Against Waldenponding’ by Venkatesh Rao
2018/06: ‘Here Are the 14 Habits of Highly Miserable People’ by Cloe Madanes
2018/06: ‘The Psychology of Money’ by Morgan Housel
2018/03: ‘The Tyranny of Convenience’ by Tim Wu
2016/04: ‘How economists rode maths to become our era’s astrologers’ by Alan Jay Levinovitz
2015/02: ‘How To Lose Weight in Four Easy Steps’ by Aaron Bleyaert
2013/09: ‘Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy’ by Tim Urban (Wait but Why)
2008/05: ‘Cities and Ambition’ by Paul Graham
1986/03: ‘You and Your Research’ by Richard Hamming
2023/06: Honestly: ‘How to Live Longer and Healthier - with Dr. Peter Attia’ with Bari Weiss
2023/01: Merged Podcast: ‘Expanding Our Understanding On UAP Technology - with Scientist Garry Nolan’ with Ryan Graves