Favorite blog posts and YouTube videos by topic

Advice

• The days are long but the decades are short * - Sam Altman
• Advice - Patrick Collison
• What should you do with your life - Guzey
• The Only Two Pieces of Advice You’ll Ever Need - Tyler Cowen
• Advice for ambitious teenagers - Laura Demmings
• Favorite essays of life advice - Ben Kuhn
• Sam Altman on Choosing Projects, Creating Value, and Finding Purpose (YouTube)

Agency

• The most precious resource is agency by Simon Harris
• How to Create Luck - Max Dalton, YC (YouTube)
• What’s Stopping You? - Neel Nanda

Start-ups

• Pretty much all PG start-up related essays…
• Startup advice and Startup advice, briefly by Sam Altman
• #Define CTO - Greg Brockman
• Enstil.ai postmortem - Aman Sanger

Writing

• Paul Graham, ‘Putting ideas into words’
• Michael Nielsen, ‘How to use a personal website to enhance your ability to think and create?’
• Alexey Guzey, ‘Why You Should Start a Blog Right Now’
• James Somers, ‘More people should write’

Perspectives

• Ideas that changed my life - Morgan Housel via CollabFund

Fun

• How do I draw a pair of buttocks?
• Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics - Dynomight
• The Legend of Jeff Dean

Fiction

• The businessman and the fisherman - original variant by Heinrich Böll I believe
• The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant - Nick Bostrom
• The Gentle Seduction - Marc Stiegler