Formative Reading
Blog posts, essays, and other readings I find absolutely important.
No particular order.
- Go Hard to Go Easy
- Advice
- Life Hacking
- How to be more successful
- A Lack of Time is a Lack of Priorities
- Dive In
- Rest in Motion
- 95%-ile isn’t that good
- Advice on Research
- Want Now
- Favorable Conditions Never Come
- Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger)
- Things You’re Allowed To Do
- Six Lines
- Principles
- This Is Water (2005)
- How to be more agentic
- Attention is your scarcest resource
- The Top Idea in Your Mind
- On Exactitude in Science
- How to Succeed at MrBeast Production
- Becoming the person who does the thing
- What if you tried hard?
- HOWTO: Be more productive
- Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity
- literally just do things
- The case against morning yoga, daily routines, and endless meetings
- The Perils of Audience Capture
- Always Be Launching
- i’m just having fun
- First Principles: Thinking for Yourself
- What does a post-Google internet look like?
- Deliberate performance
- What is social impact? A definition
- What Should You Do with Your Life?
- Life is Short
- My favorite essays of life advice
- The Mundanity of Excellence
- On Living a Life of Purpose In Your 20’s
- Every productivity thought I’ve ever had, as concisely as possible
- Understanding
- SotW: Be Specific
- Searching for outliers
- How to increase your surface area for luck
- Relentlessly Resourceful
- How I practice at what I do
- Every marketing channel sucks right now
- Audience of One
- How to Create Luck
- Humans are not automatically strategic
- We Have Learned Nothing
- Increasing Your Luck Surface Area