# Blogroll # Blogroll _Blogs and people who I think are doing cool work_. Presented in no particular order. - [Cate Hall](https://usefulfictions.substack.com/) - Topics: Personal agency - Good starting post: [50 things I know](https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/50-things-i-know) - [Zvi Mowshowitz](https://thezvi.substack.com/) - Topics: One of the sharpest writers on AI, extremely verbose coverage; also economics, policy, housing, etc. - Good starting posts: - [Levels of Friction](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/levels-of-friction) - [The AI Ad-Hoc Prior Restraint Era Begins](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-ai-ad-hoc-prior-restraint-era) - [Opus 4.7 Part 3: Model Welfare](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/opus-47-part-3-model-welfare) - [Charity Majors](https://charity.wtf/) - Topics: Tech careers, systems management - Good starting posts: - [Know your “One Job” and do it first](https://charity.wtf/2021/03/07/know-your-one-job-and-do-it-first/) - [Questionable Advice: The Trap of The Premature Senior](https://charity.wtf/2020/11/01/questionable-advice-the-trap-of-the-premature-senior/) - [Software deploys and cognitive biases](https://charity.wtf/2021/08/27/software-deploys-and-cognitive-biases/) - [Interconnected](http://interconnected.org/home/) by Matt Webb - Good starting posts: - [Risk: micromorts, microCOVIDs, and skydiving](http://interconnected.org/home/2020/09/01/microcovids) - [There is no After](http://interconnected.org/home/2020/05/06/lockdown) - [Lockdown and discovering new micro-hedonisms](http://interconnected.org/home/2020/08/20/micro_hedonisms) - [Daniel Sosebee](https://blog.danielsosebee.com/) - Topics: Personal systems, AI alignment, human programming - Good starting post: [Personal-Values Alignment Tech: Some Initial Motivations](https://blog.danielsosebee.com/p/personal-values-alignment-tech-some) - [Martin Tournoij](https://www.arp242.net/) - Good starting post: [Go’s features of last resort](https://www.arp242.net/go-last-resort.html) - [Of Dollars And Data](https://ofdollarsanddata.com/) - Topics: Finance, Investing - Good starting post: [Climbing the Wealth Ladder](https://ofdollarsanddata.com/climbing-the-wealth-ladder/) - [Slime Mold Time Mold](https://slimemoldtimemold.com/) - Topics: Scientific inquiry - Good starting post: [TODOs from Paper Systems](https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/01/18/todos-from-paper-systems/) - [Fred Hevert](https://ferd.ca) - Topics: Erlang, Systems Design - Good starting posts: - [You Reap What You Code](https://ferd.ca/you-reap-what-you-code.html) - [The Zen of Erlang](https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html) - [Overthinking Everything](https://drmaciver.substack.com/) by David MacIver - Good starting post: [Difficult Problems and Hard Work](https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/difficult-problems-and-hard-weeks) - [Astral Codex Ten](https://astralcodexten.substack.com/) (previously [StarSlateCodex](https://slatestarcodex.com/)) - Topics: Rationality, Medicine/Mental Health - Good starting post: [I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/) - [Matt Rickard](https://matt-rickard.com/) - Topics: Software engineering, programming, etc. - Good starting posts: - [Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming](https://matt-rickard.com/reflections-on-10-000-hours-of-programming/) - [The IKEA Effect in Software Development](https://matt-rickard.com/the-ikea-effect-in-software/) - [Jan-Lukas Else](https://jlelse.blog/) - Topics: Indie Web - [David Perell](https://www.perell.com) - Topics: Writing, Tech - Good starting post: [Why You Should Write Pseudonymously](https://www.perell.com/blog/why-you-should-write-pseudonymously) - [Tom Critchlow](https://tomcritchlow.com/) - Topics: Indie Web, Consulting - Good starting post: [Library JSON](https://tomcritchlow.com/2020/04/15/library-json/) - [Henrik Warne](https://henrikwarne.com/) - Topics: Technical Book Reviews, Software Development - Good starting post: [Artificial Intelligence - A Guide for Thinking Humans](https://henrikwarne.com/2020/05/19/artificial-intelligence-a-guide-for-thinking-humans/) (Book review) - [James Stanley](https://incoherency.co.uk/blog) - Topics: Hardware Projects - Good starting post: [Autopatzer: My Automatic Chess Board](https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/autopatzer.html) - [John Battelle](https://battellemedia.com) - Good starting post: [Predictions 2020](https://battellemedia.com/archives/2020/01/predictions-2020-facebook-caves-google-zags-netflix-sells-out-and-data-policy-gets-sexy) - [Tom MacWright](https://macwright.org/) - Topics: Web, Programming - Good starting posts: [Elm](https://macwright.org/2020/04/26/old-fashioned-front.html), [Dark](https://macwright.org/2020/03/29/dark.html) - [Robert Heaton](https://robertheaton.com/) - Topics: Software Engineering, Blogging, Privacy - Good starting post: [A blogging style guide vol. 2](https://robertheaton.com/a-blogging-style-guide-vol-2/) - [Tim Kadlec](https://timkadlec.com/remembers/) - Good starting post: [The Ethics of Web Performance](https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2019-01-09-the-ethics-of-performance/) - [Matt Levine](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthew-s-levine) (Bloomberg) - Topics: Finance, Economics - Good starting posts: - [Day Traders Might Have Fun Saving Hertz From Bankruptcy](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-12/if-you-want-hertz-have-some-hertz%0A) - [People Loved Nikola But Not Its Warrants](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-21/people-loved-nikola-but-not-its-warrants) - [Jestem Króliczkiem](https://beepb00p.xyz/) - Topics: Quantified self, Python - Good starting post: [What data on myself I collect and why?](https://beepb00p.xyz/my-data.html) - [FasterThanLime](https://fasterthanli.me/series) - Topics: Rust, Networking, System Programming - Good starting posts: [Image decay as a service](https://fasterthanli.me/articles/image-decay-as-a-service), [Working with strings in Rust](https://fasterthanli.me/articles/working-with-strings-in-rust) - [Rick Carlino](https://rickcarlino.com/) - Good starting post: [Software Tools for Hobby-Scale Projects](https://rickcarlino.com/2019/11/02/software-tools-for-hobby-sized-projects-html.html) - [Dennis Schubert](https://overengineer.dev/) - Topics: Decentralization, ActivityPub - Good starting post: [The 2010s and alternative Social Media: A decade full of work, hope, and disappointment](https://overengineer.dev/blog/2020/01/01/2010s-alternative-social-media.html) ## Digital Gardens - [Matt Widmann](https://mattwidmann.net/) - [Gwern](https://www.gwern.net/) - Topics: Open Science, Quantified Self, Statistics and Experimentation - Good starting post: [Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning](https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition) - [Alexey Guzey](https://guzey.com/) - Topics: Open Science, Writing, Quantified Self - Good starting post: [Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible](https://guzey.com/productivity/) ## Inactive - [Normcore Tech](https://vicki.substack.com/archive) by Vicki Boykis - Topics: Tech, Privacy - Good starting posts: - [Congrats, you're the CEO now](https://vicki.substack.com/p/congrats-youre-the-ceo-now) - [The person on the other side of the crowd](https://vicki.substack.com/p/the-person-on-the-other-side-of-the) - [Pablo Meier](https://morepablo.com/) - [Paul Jarvis](https://pjrvs.com/) - [I'm Left Handed](https://imlefthanded.com/) - [Second Breakfast](https://secondbreakfast.co) - Good starting posts: - [It’s too late to collect sand](https://secondbreakfast.co/its-too-late-to-collect-sand) - [Shaving and being human](https://secondbreakfast.co/shaving-and-being-human) - [Margins](https://themargins.substack.com/) by Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk - Topics: Tech, Finance - Good starting posts: - [Robinhood and How to Lose Money](https://themargins.substack.com/p/robinhood-and-how-to-lose-money) - [The Other Digital Divide](https://themargins.substack.com/p/the-other-digital-divide) ## Friends - [Joshua Dunigan](https://www.joshdunigan.com/): Philosophy, Ethics, Arts/Culture - [Tyler Kim](https://tyler.kim/) - [Naran Dasan](https://narendasan.com/) --- _Standard Disclaimer_: Linking to a blog does not mean I agree with everything the author has written. 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