These books, articles, and posts have meaningfully changed how I think about something.
A brilliant argument for why you can’t have freedom of anything without freedom of transaction.
A brilliant, deeply detailed breakdown of of “rhyming” themes in Star Wars.
A list of things that have been built fast, across the world, over the last couple of centuries… contrasted by more recent, sclerotic development in today’s society.
Honorary mention for an excellent summary, even if the individual points weren’t perspective-shifting (summarization is an art form).
I didn’t understand how seismic a shift ASI could be until I read this. This preceded the LLM era by a lot, which makes Tim Urban all the more prescient.
Historically, inequality is the norm not the exception. The late 1900s were an anomalous period of prosperity and equality that was unlikely to last.
The seminal work on human psychology and persuasion.
This long breakdown was thought-provoking in getting me to question assumptions about our biology. What if we’ve been “looking under the street lamp” on obesity?
Every person involved with building, operating, or investing in companies should read this.