Things worth returning to.
Books
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson (series) by Robert A. Caro
- Incerto (series) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Maxims for Thinking Analytically by Dan Levy
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
- Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
- Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel & Blake Masters
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Endurance by Alfred Lansing
- Truman by David McCullough
- Grant by Ron Chernow
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Movies
- Interstellar
- Ex Machina
- Forrest Gump
- Inception
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Gattaca
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Step Brothers
- The Social Network
- Michael Clayton
Articles
- We Need a New Science of Progress by Patrick Collison & Tyler Cowen
- Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail by John Salvatier
- I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup by Scott Alexander
- Your Family: Past, Present, and Future by Tim Urban
- The Fermi Paradox by Tim Urban
- The Really Big One by Kathryn Schulz
- Climbing the Wrong Hill by Chris Dixon
- What Would It Take to Recreate Bell Labs? by Brian Potter
- Risk, Uncertainty and Ignorance in Investing and Business from 25iq
- Inside a Moneymaking Machine Like No Other by Katherine Burton
- Childhoods of Exceptional People by Henrik Karlsson
- AI, Unemployment and Work by Alex Tabarrok
- The Three-Body Problem by Ben Hunt
- How to Make a Clock Run for 10,000 Years by Dylan Tweney
Blogs & Writers
- Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabarrok
- Derek Thompson
- Andrej Karpathy
- One Useful Thing by Ethan Mollick
- Stratechery by Ben Thompson
- Astral Codex Ten by Scott Alexander
- Dwarkesh Patel
- Noahpinion by Noah Smith
- The Grumpy Economist by John Cochrane
- Calculated Risk by Bill McBride
Podcast Digest
- Conversations with Tyler with Tyler Cowen
- What Really Matters with Walter Russell Mead & Jeremy Stern
- Animal Spirits with Ben Carlson & Michael Batnick
- Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
- TBPN with John Coogan & Jordi Hays