My Favorite Articles

How to read – 15 min. How to actively engage and learn from what you read
Tweet on writing – single most influential tweet I’ve read. Beautifully written and if you follow this you’ll write better emails than 95% of people
Antilibrary – 10 min, beautiful concept on intellectual curiosity

Accelerated Learning – 10 min from Farnam street synthesizing different approaches to learn more efficiently
Feynman Learning Technique – 20 min from Farnam Street on how to retain your learning
Decision journal template – One of the most effective ways to improve your thinking is to document your thought processes as they occur. Using this decision journal template and looking back on your approach to problems will help you gain feedback and improve your decision making
The Multidisciplinary approach to thinking – 20 min article. The virtue of range, but in a much more playful and relatable version
How to avoid using bad arguments – 10 min read on the different tactics of bad arguments and how we can avoid them
Standing on shoulders of giants – 10 min read on why copying ideas from others is good and the idea of the adjacent possible

How will you measure your life – 10 min read from the late Clayton Christensen. Absolutely beautiful piece with timeless advice in it about how to blend business concepts with your life’s purpose
Three big things – 15 min discussion on how much of history is logarithmic and a very few events can shape the world
The tail-end – 5 min read about why you should treasure every moment in your most important relationships
Why we focus on trivial things? – 5 min read on why is easier for people to focus on smaller things that don’t matter because they are easier to understand
Erik bern on opportunity cost – 10 min read arguing “Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost”
Amp it up by frank-slootman – 10 min read on why increasing pace is the best way to boost organizations
My-framework-for-dealing-with-fomo – 5 min article on why to focus on process and how events and successes that occur are lagging indicators
How to avoid half-heartedness – 10 min read on how to feel alive and follow your passions

Wealth is what you don’t spend -5 min article framing how important savings can really be. Great storyteller who often writes on the Collaborative Fund weekly newsletter
Why time has slowed – 5 min read on why surprising things cause time to slow down
- Helps explain why March 2020 felt so long with all the new/unexpected COVID news
Three big things – 15 min read from 2019 on the major events that have changed our world and how they have huge ripple effects. Especially relevant for COVID changing our worlds
Three sides of risk – 15 min moving story on what risk actually is
Two-worlds – 10 min read on how there’s been so much prosperity from COVID while also so much struggle particularly among the lower classes
Stockdale Paradox – 5 min article on why to be a short term pessimist, and long term optimist

Skipping breakfast – 5 min read on why studies showing skipping breakfast causes negative health effects are flawed and misleading
40 best questions to ask in an interview – 15 min read which would help anyone who is interviewing for new roles know what to focus on

Wait but Why Elon Musk series– 3 ~45 min articles. If you’ve ever been curious about musk, this is from the inside and is the best top down level thinking for why musk does what he does and why he is so crazy at times. The Tesla and SpaceX articles are so thorough they teach you about entire industries
Wait but why The Fermi Paradox – 20 min article. Ever wondered why we haven’t met extraterrestrial species. It is more interesting and scary than you think
The-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority – First 5 min are all you need for Nassim Taleb to explain why a passionate minority has outsized influence as others acquiesce
Status as a service – 45 min. Long form article that is a phenomenal synthesis of social networks
The housing theory of everything – 20 min article on how Western housing shortages create systemic problems driving inequality, lower productivity, and even falling fertility

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