Here’s a list I was keeping in a text file of the blogs/articles/essays I was reading through the first half of this year. Before I started keeping a lot of them here.
I was quite good about logging each piece I read and have since dropped off.
Title: Blogs and essays I’ve read
Tags: blogs, essays, saved-blog-list
- 2025-02-01: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/ai-firm
- 2025-02-02: https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/this-is-the-dream-timehtml
- 2025-02-02: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html
- 2025-02-02: https://pradyuprasad.com/writings/how-to-have-a-career-even-when-o3-drops/
- 2025-02-04: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/02/gradual-empowerment.html
- 2025-02-04: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html
- 2025-02-04: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/where-is-the-hope-what-is-hope/
- 2025-02-05: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/02/trumpian-policy-as-cultural-policy.html
- 2025-02-05: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/07/an-overly-simple-model-of-positive-and-negative-contagion.html
- 2025-02-06: https://kk.org/thetechnium/jobs-of-the-future/
- 2025-02-09: https://benthams.substack.com/p/the-upcoming-pepfar-cut-will-kill
- 2025-02-09: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/money-saved-by-canceling-programs
- 2025-02-09: https://kyla.substack.com/p/fafonomics-how-chaos-became-americas
- 2025-02-10: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/398460/jd-vance-ordo-amoris-order-love-christianity-catholic-charity
- 2025-02-10: https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/its-later-than-you-think?publication_id=1004053&post_id=156764375&isFreemail=true&r=3o9&triedRedirect=true
- 2025-02-10: https://readpolymathematics.substack.com/p/rough-draft-2025
- 2025-02-10: https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-last-mile
- 2025-02-11: https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-new-canon-wars
- 2025-02-11: https://samharris.substack.com/p/the-trouble-with-elon
- 2025-02-11: https://www.betonit.ai/p/do-ten-times-as-much?hide_intro_popup=true
- 2025-02-12: https://maraoz.com/raw-power/
- 2025-02-12: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/02/the-danger-of-trump-disobeying-court-orders.html
- 2025-02-12: https://x.com/TheFIREorg/status/1889455752894464305
- 2025-02-13: https://blog.samaltman.com/three-observations
- “Anyone in 2035 should be able to marshall the intellectual capacity equivalent to everyone in 2025; everyone should have access to unlimited genius to direct however they can imagine. There is a great deal of talent right now without the resources to fully express itself, and if we change that, the resulting creative output of the world will lead to tremendous benefits for us all.”
- 2025-02-14: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/we-live-like-royalty-and-dont-know-it
- 2025-02-14: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/02/how-to-teach-people-how-to-work-with-ai.html
- 2025-02-15: https://www.ystrickler.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet/
- 2025-02-16: https://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2023/02/tyler-cowen-ive-never-been-convinced-that-ai-will-rise-up-and-destroy-the-world-or-turn-us-into-paper-clips/
- 2025-02-16: https://www.ystrickler.com/thepostindividual/
- 2025-02-17: https://otherinter.net/research/squad-wealth/
- 2025-02-20: https://substack.com/home/post/p-157018533
- very good. seminal for understanding generations and the worry of loss of speed compared to tech
- 2025-02-21: https://www.epsilontheory.com/it-was-never-going-to-be-me/
- 2025-02-22: https://blog.samaltman.com/ai
- 2025-02-23: https://www.vox.com/2015/3/2/8120063/american-democracy-doomed
- 2025-02-23: https://www.thefp.com/p/the-online-right-is-building-a-monster?hide_intro_popup=true
- 2025-02-23: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/opinion/trump-ukraine-justice-zelensky.html
- 2025-02-23: https://www.epsilontheory.com/this-is-the-great-ravine/
- 2025-02-23: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/only-fools-think-elon-is-incompetent
- 2025-02-27: https://graymirror.substack.com/p/the-pleasure-of-error?r=br77s&triedRedirect=true&sort=community
- 2025-02-28: https://onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/the-new-rules-of-media
- 2025-02-28: https://onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/aggregation-theory
- 2025-02-28: https://www.economist.com/1843/2025/02/28/tyler-cowen-the-man-who-wants-to-know-everything
- 2025-02-28: https://jacob.energy/free-valuable.html
- 2025-03-02: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/politics/musk-federal-bureaucracy-takeover.html
- 2025-03-04: https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/philosophical-angst-as-culture-skepticism
- 2025-03-08: https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/the-battle-to-lose-independent-vote.html
- 2025-03-09: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/03/the-political-economy-of-manus-ai.html
- 2025-03-09: https://substack.com/home/post/p-158660265
- 2025-03-11: https://ofdollarsanddata.com/never-root-for-a-recession/
- 2025-03-12: https://jxnl.co/writing/2024/09/27/why-freelancers-will-win-the-ai-gold-rush/#the-window-of-opportunity
- 2025-03-12: https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-parallel-economy-and-the-new
- 2025-03-13: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/t-magazine/black-mountain-college.html
- 2025-03-13: https://visakanv.substack.com/p/for-future-reference
- 2025-03-13: https://visakanv.substack.com/p/are-you-serious
- 2025-03-14: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/technology/why-im-feeling-the-agi.html?unlocked_article_code=1.304.TIEy.SmNhKYO4e9c7&smid=url-share
- 2025-03-17: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/03/what-do-we-learn-from-torturing-babies.html
- 2025-03-17: https://vintagedata.org/blog/posts/model-is-the-product
- 2025-03-17: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/magazine/generative-ai-maga-style.html
- 2025-03-18: https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/8/3/tiktok-and-the-sorting-hat
- 2025-03-20: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/dems-need-to-moderate-and-fight
- 2025-03-20: https://substack.com/home/post/p-159383572?source=queue
- 2025-03-21: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/01/the-test.html
- 2025-03-21: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/03/my-first-trip-to-haiti.html
- 2025-03-24: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/03/what-follows-from-lab-leak.html
- 2025-03-28: https://substack.com/home/post/p-159939943
- 2025-03-28: https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/where-we-are-headed?publication_id=2244049&post_id=159959293&isFreemail=true&r=3o9&triedRedirect=true
- 2025-03-29: https://paulgraham.com/do.html
- “The most impressive thing humans can do is to think. It may be the most impressive thing that can be done.”
- 2025-03-29: https://substack.com/inbox/post/159983195?inbox=true&triedRedirect=true
- 2025-03-29: https://x.com/dishk15/status/1905803561256230946
- 2025-03-31: https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/is-it-okay/
- 2025-04-01: https://www.thefp.com/p/no-deportations-without-due-process
- 2025-04-01: https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-long-now-pt-1/
- 2025-04-01: https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-long-now-pt-2-make-protect-teach/
- 2025-04-02: https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/no-person-shall-be-deprived
- 2025-04-02: https://www.thefp.com/p/tyler-cowen-liberation-day-was-even
- 2025-04-04: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/technology/ai-futures-project-ai-2027.html?unlocked_article_code=1.804._yKi.QhwOp15Q3tcU&smid=url-share
- 2025-04-06: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1497/1497-h/1497-h.htm#link2H_4_0005
- read books 1-4, some of the first paragraphs of 5
- 2025-04-06: https://x.com/Molson_Hart/article/1908940952908996984
- 2025-04-07: https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/vibe-governing
- 2025-04-07: https://www.epsilontheory.com/crashing-the-car-of-pax-americana/
- 2025-04-07: https://www.thefp.com/p/market-uncertainty-trump-tariffs
- 2025-04-09: https://kyla.substack.com/p/bonds-stock-market-and-china-whats
- 2025-04-10: https://drewpavlou.substack.com/p/maga-maoism-trumpism-as-a-third-world
- 2025-04-10: https://www.thefp.com/p/china-america-fight-for-supremacy-xi-jinping-trump?r=1ahuy
- 2025-04-11: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/all-the-arguments-for-tariffs-are
- 2025-04-15: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-authoritarian-takeover-attempt
- 2025-04-15: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/if-and-when-you-live-in-a-dictatorship
- 2025-04-16: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/04/is-china-the-ultimate-free-rider.html#comments
- 2025-04-17: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/opinion/trump-tariffs-trumponomics.html?searchResultPosition=1
- 2025-04-18: https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-long-now-pt-3-is-this-normal-asking-for-a-friend/
- 2025-04-18: https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-long-now-pt-4-snip/
- 2025-04-19: https://www.epsilontheory.com/weve-tried-nothing-and-were-all-out-of-ideas/
- 2025-04-20: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/04/my-history-with-philosophy.html
- 2025-04-21: https://www.epsilontheory.com/wall-streets-not-so-golden-rule/
- 2025-04-21: https://www.piratewires.com/p/agency-is-eating-the-world
- 2025-04-22: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/on-jagged-agi-o3-gemini-25-and-everything
- 2025-04-23: https://www.thefp.com/p/elites-dont-deserve-hatred
- 2025-04-24: https://www.thefp.com/p/the-case-for-living-online
- 2025-04-24: https://www.thefp.com/p/rod-dreher-trump-enemies
- 2025-04-24: https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies
- 2025-04-26: https://www.epsilontheory.com/i-broke-the-dam/
- 2025-05-01: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/i-owe-the-libertarians-an-apology
- 2025-05-06: https://www.thefp.com/p/high-school-never-ends-in-dc
- 2025-05-07: https://www.thefp.com/p/tyler-cowen-is-classical-liberalism-for-losers
- 2025-05-18: https://substack.com/home/post/p-163411308?source=queue
- 2025-05-19: https://www.thefp.com/p/the-joe-biden-cover-up
- 2025-05-28: https://www.thefp.com/p/tyler-cowen-harvard-trump?taid=6834e0ff1f32e20001357cb1
- 2025-05-29: https://sahillavingia.com/doge
- 2025-05-29: https://www.epsilontheory.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-deficit-2/
- 2025-05-29: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic?_bhlid=3a81cf3170116bc16f2d871fbb4fae443f601ef7
- 2025-05-30: https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-four-phases-of-institutional/comments#comment-121172374
- 2025-06-03: https://www.thefp.com/p/the-fives-rules-of-finding-talent
- 2025-06-04: https://www.thefp.com/p/rod-dreher-the-woke-right-is-coming
- 2025-06-05: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/timelines-june-2025?manualredirect=&hide_intro_popup=true
- 2025-06-06: https://www.piratewires.com/p/right-wing-civil-war
- 2025-06-11: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/us/thomas-crooks-trump-shooter-butler-rally.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20250611&instance_id=156290&nl=from-the-times®i_id=275348749&segment_id=199705&user_id=b0c7c7a69c82b38b5af4a003b573cbad
- 2025-06-11: https://blog.samaltman.com/
- 2025-06-14: https://www.epsilontheory.com/paradise-losers/
- 2025-06-16: https://www.epsilontheory.com/in-praise-of-bitcoin/
- 2025-06-17: https://www.thefp.com/p/the-maga-tech-partnership-cracks-elon-musk-donald-trump
- 2025-06-20:https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/whats-happening-to-reading
- 2025-06-25: https://andymasley.substack.com/p/my-are-you-presuming-most-people
- 2025-06-25: https://www.honest-broker.com/p/audiences-prove-that-the-experts?publication_id=296132&post_id=166543421&isFreemail=true&r=3o9&triedRedirect=true
- 2025-06-26: https://substack.com/home/post/p-166662346?source=queue
- 2025-06-26: https://lukeburgis.com/mimetic-desire-101/
- 2025-06-26: https://monocle.com/affairs/asheville-recovery-post-hurricane-helene/
- 2025-07-01: https://sarahrunning.substack.com/p/a-drinking-and-running-story
- 2025-07-08: https://raggedfrontier.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/moby-dick-just-the-takeaways/
- 2025-07-09: https://kyla.substack.com/
- 2025-07-11: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/07/the-sputnik-vs-deepseek-moment-why-the-difference.html#comments
- 2025-07-15: https://www.epsilontheory.com/shitholes-sanctuaries-and-springfield/
- 2025-07-16: https://www.thefp.com/p/bitcoin-hits-120k-the-real-story-crypto-policy-trump
- 2025-07-17: https://joincolossus.com/article/flounder-mode/
- 2025-07-17: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/07/the-sputnik-vs-deep-seek-moment-the-answers.html