My favorite ~200 articles out of the ~2,700+ that I read in 2022. Particular favorites are marked with a star (⭐).
Book Reviews
- The Dawn Of Everything by Erik Hoel at Astral Codex Ten
- Exhaustion by “Van Occupanther” at Astral Codex Ten
- ⭐ Too Like the Lightning by @bormgans at Weighing a pig doesn’t fatten it
- Seven Surrenders by @bormgans at Weighing a pig doesn’t fatten it
- How Molecular Forces and Rotating Planets Create Life: The Emergence and Evolution of Prokaryotic Cells by @bormgans at Weighing a pig doesn’t fatten it
- The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul: Learning and the Origins of Consciousness by @bormgans at Weighing a pig doesn’t fatten it
- ⭐ Discourses on Livy, Part I by Conrad Bastable at Conrad Bastable
- ⭐ Discourses on Livy, Part II by Conrad Bastable at Conrad Bastable
- The Name of the Wind and The Children of Húrin by Adam Roberts at Strange Horizons
- How to Read a Book by Derek Sivers at Derek Sivers
History
- ⭐ Is the United States Exceptional? by Bret Devereaux at A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
- ⭐ The Chinese celebrate Tang poetry as a pinnacle of their culture at The Economist
- Wife Economics and the Domestication of Man (Part I) by Misha Saul at Kvetch
- Welcome, ghosts by Simon Sarris at The Map is Mostly Water
- Scene report from the Chernobyl Zone by Moxie Marlinspike at Moxie Marlinspike
- ⭐ History is in the making by Stephen Davies at Works in Progress
AI and ML
- ELK And The Problem Of Truthful AI by Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten
- Artificial intelligence and the rise of optical computing at The Economist
- The Hall Monitors Are Winning the AI Wars, Part 1: ChatGPT by Jon Stokes at Jon Stokes
- ⭐ Generative AI: autocomplete for everything by Noah Smith and roon at Noahpinion
- frank’s image generation model, explained by nostalgebraist at trees are harlequins, words are harlequins
- “An engine for the imagination”: an interview with David Holz, CEO of AI image generator Midjourney by James Vincent at The Verge
Gaming and Game Design
- 10 years of FTL: The making of an enduring spaceship simulator by Alex Calvin at Ars Technica
- ⭐ Simulation Games Might Be What The World Needs Now by Dan Grover at Dan Grover
- Spirit Island by @bormgans at Weighing a pig doesn’t fatten it
- How to design for impact and narrative variance with Roadwarden by Aureus Morale at Game Developer
Politics, Foreign Affairs, Diplomacy, and War
- Preparing for Defeat by Francis Fukuyama at American Purpose
- ⭐ Ten Rules That Demystify Politics by Bradley Tusk at Bradley Tusk
- ⭐ The Cold War Never Ended by Stephen Kotkin at Foreign Affairs
- The Weakness of Xi Jinping by Cai Xia at Foreign Affairs
- Ukraine Holds the Future by Timothy Snyder at Foreign Affairs
- Inside Putin’s circle — the real Russian elite by Anatol Lieven at Financial Times
- The great game of global public goods provision by Steve Randy Waldoman at interfluidity
- ⭐ What’s Wrong with California? by Philo at MD&A
- The Fight for Ukraine by Lawrence Freedman at Comment is Freed
- ⭐ Absolute Power by Graeme Wood at The Atlantic
- Possible Outcomes of the Russo-Ukrainian War and China’s Choice by Hu Wei at U.S.-China Perception Monitor
- 2021 letter by Dan Wang at Dan Wang
- The Impossible Suddenly Became Possible by Anne Applebaum at The Atlantic
Web3 / Crypto
- ⭐ The Only Crypto Story You Need by Matt Levine at Bloomberg
- Web3/Crypto: Why Bother? by Albert Wenger at Continuations
- Where to use a blockchain in non-financial applications? by Vitalik Buterin at Vitalik Buterin’s website
- ⭐ My first impressions of web3 by Moxie Marlinspike at Moxie Marlinspike
- The St. Petersburg Paradox by Taylor Pearson at Taylor Pearson
Finance and Economics
- Changing how Main Street businesses bank by Patrick McKenzie at Bits about Money
- Accounting for SaaS and swords by Patrick McKenzie at Bits about Money
- Plastic (and payments) in the fantasy supply chain by Patrick McKenzie at Bits about Money
- Siting bank branches by Patrick McKenzie at Bits about Money
- ⭐ Demystifying financial leverage by Patrick McKenzie at Bits about Money
- The Distributive Distraction by Bryan Caplan at Bet On It
- ⭐ American Zaibatsu: Macroeconomics for Tech Employees by Conrad Bastable at Conrad Bastable
- Reversion to the mean: the real long COVID by John Luttig at luttig’s learnings
- Reflections on the Investing Process with Michael Mauboussin at Compound Manual
- It’s Never the Subsidies by Philo at MD&A
- In a world… of venture capital by Zvi Mowshowitz at Don’t Worry About the Vase
Business, Work, and Leadership
- ⭐ Optimism Shapes Reality by Alexandr Wang at Rational in the Fullness of Time
- A career ending mistake by John Arundel at Bitfield Consulting
- Half Staffed is Unstaffed by Boz at boz
- What Qualities Best Enable Success? by Bradley Tusk at Bradley Tusk
- Stuff I Wish I Had Been Told by Bradley Tusk at Bradley Tusk
- Managing Your Manager by Brie Wolfson at Every
- ⭐ We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business by Niek Hilkmann and Thomas Walskaart at Eye on Design
- Reverse Interviewing Your Future Manager and Team by Gergely Orosz at The Pragmatic Engineer
- Reverse Interviewing: How to interview a company as well as they interview you by Adam Fishman at FishmanAF Newsletter
- Your Activation Experience: Onboarding successfully in your first 90 days by Adam Fishman at FishmanAF Newsletter
- ⭐ How CEOs Manage Time by Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria at Harvard Business Review
- How to present to executives by Will Larson at Irrational Exuberance
- Reminiscing: the retreat to comforting work by Will Larson at Irrational Exuberance
- Want to be a Disruptor? by Marc Randolph at Marc Randolph
- ⭐ Why Pebble failed by Eric Migicovsky at Eric Migicovsky
- The Data-Informed Manifesto by Julie Zhuo at The Looking Glass
- Things you’re allowed to do by Milan Cvitkovic at Milan Cvitkovic
- The Chokehold of Calendars by Mike Monteiro at Mike Monteiro
- Become a person who Actually Does Things by Neel Nanda at Neel Nanda
- The three-or-four-hours rule by Oliver Burkeman at Oliver Burkeman
- ⭐ What Happened to Yahoo by Paul Graham at Paul Graham
- ⭐ Choose Good Quests by Markie Wagner and Trae Stephens at Pirate Wires
- Addressing Uncertainty, an overview by Jerry Neumann at Reaction Wheel
- Peter Thiel’s Anti-Lean Manifesto by Sachin Rekhi at Sachin Rekhi
- Writing is Thinking by Ibrahim Bashir at Run the Business
- How to Design a Better Pitch Deck: Fundraising, Pitch Deck, YC Demo Day by Kevin Hale at Y Combinator
- The next train by Seth Godin at Seth’s Blog
- ⭐ The art of the long goodbye by Vicki Boykis at Normcore Tech
- Where Did the Long Tail Go? by Ted Gioia at The Honest Broker
- Managing..up? by Sam Schillace at Sunday Letters
- What is Company Culture & Why is Culture Important? by Taylor Pearson at Taylor Pearson
- OPP (Other People’s Problems) by Camille Fournier at Camille Fournier
- ⭐ Hybrid Anxiety and Hybrid Optimism: The Near Future of Work by Rajiv Ayyangar at Tandem
Strategy and Product Management
- The Product/Market Interest Chasm by Ben Mathes at Adventure Capital
- Let’s DO Have Hindsight! by Albert Cory at Albert Cory
- How To Select A Target Market by April Dunford at April Dunford
- What’s your favorite interview question? by Gibson Biddle at “Ask Gib”
- ⭐ What specifics in a daily routine separate a good Product Manager from a great Product Manager? by Gibson Biddle at “Ask Gib”
- Curves by Boz at boz
- CEOs and Product Leaders by Ken Norton at Bring the Donuts
- Sequencing Business Models: So You Want To Be A Platform? by Casey Winters at Casey Accidental
- What Type of Job is This: My First Year as Chief Product Officer by Casey Winters at Casey Accidental
- Plan on a Page Checklist by John Cutler at The Beautiful Mess
- ⭐ Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System by Donella Meadows at The Donella Meadows Project
- PRDs are the worst way to drive product progress by Adam Fishman at FishmanAF Newsletter
- ⭐ Products Are Functions by Ryan Singer at Ryan Singer
- A review of Shreyas Doshi’s Managing your PM Career Seminar by Tim Woods at Tim Woods
- Embodied Strategy by Dimitri Glazkov at Dimitri Glazkov
- ⭐ Being Strategic by Dimitri Glazkov at Dimitri Glazkov
- Use PEARL instead of STAR to shine in your PM interviews by Jackie Bavaro at Cracking the PM Newsletter
- ⭐ The 3 Stages of a Product Manager’s Career by Jackie Bavaro at Cracking the PM Newsletter
- The Charcuterie Framework for Roadmap Planning by Jackie Bavaro at Cracking the PM Newsletter
- Google has a company strategy, not a product strategy by Jackie Bavaro at Cracking the PM Newsletter
- ⭐ What is Product Strategy? by Jackie Bavaro at Cracking the PM Newsletter
- ⭐ Product Management at a Startup 101 Talk Notes by Leigh Marie Braswell at Leigh Marie Braswell
- Not all product visions need to be similar to that of building a ‘metaverse’. by Vivek Kumar at Growth & product management of infrequent consumer products
- Un-BELT your consumer problems to create a successful infrequent product by Vivek Kumar at Growth & product management of infrequent consumer products
- ⭐ The Doorbell in the Jungle by Alex Komoroske at Alex Komoroske
- The self-sustaining flame by Alex Komoroske at Alex Komoroske
- Surfing through trade-offs by Alex Komoroske at Alex Komoroske
- The Art of Product Management by Ken Norton at Bring the Donuts
- Product Discovery Lessons: Going from Zero to One by Ravi Mehta at Ravi Mehta
- How Product Managers Lose the Trust of Engineers by Shimon Rura at Shimon Rura
- How (and why) to document the assumptions underlying your product by Shimon Rura at Shimon Rura
- The Supermarket of Software by Martina Lauchengco at Silicon Valley Product Group
- Transformation Defined by Jon Moore and Marty Cagan at Silicon Valley Product Group
- The Product Scorecard by Marty Cagan at Silicon Valley Product Group
- Fifth-Generation Management by Venkatesh Rao at ribbonfarm
Writing and Blogging
- ⭐ A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox by Henrik Karlsson at Escaping Flatland
- ⭐ Why and how to write things on the Internet by Ben Kuhn at benkuhn.net
- Other Story Ingredients beyond World, Characters, and Plot by Ada Palmer at Tor/Forge Blog
Privacy, Security, Content Moderation, and Advertising
- Principled Privacy by Robin Berjon at Robin Berjon
- A Taxonomy of Access Control by Bruce Schneier at Schneier on Security
- Micropayments for content by Seth Godin at Seth’s Blog
- Moderation Is Different From Censorship by Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten
- Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve by Mike Masnick at Techdirt
Culture and Society
- Intentionally Making Close Friends by Neel Nanda at Neel Nanda
- Stanford’s War on Social Life by Ginevra Davis at Palladium
- Heresy by Paul Graham at Paul Graham
- What is Good Within Social Networks by Simon Sarris at The Map is Mostly Water
- The Smartest Book About Our Digital Age Was Published in 1929 by Ted Gioia at The Daily Beast
Climate, Energy, Cities, and Homes
- ⭐ Mapping out the tribes of climate by Nadia Asparouhova at Nadia Asparouhova
- Energy Superabundance by Austin Vernon and Eli Dourado at Center for Growth and Opportunity
- What Carmel, Indiana, can teach America about urbanism at The Economist
- ⭐ Designing a New Old Home: Beginnings by Simon Sarris at The Map is Mostly Water
- Designing a New Old Home: Curiosity by Simon Sarris at The Map is Mostly Water
- Designing a New Old Home: Research, Sketch, Collect by Simon Sarris at The Map is Mostly Water
- Patina and Intimacy by Simon Sarris at The Map is Mostly Water
- Why Some Cities Thrive by Tomas Pueyo at Uncharted Territories
Philosophy, Learning, and Thought
- The Thinking Path by Steven Johnson at Adjacent Possible
- The Gods Only Have Power Because We Believe In Them by Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten
- ⭐ Augmenting Long-term Memory by Michael Nielsen at Augmenting Cognition
- Searching for outliers by Ben Kuhn at benkuhn.net
- Be less scared of overconfidence by Ben Kuhn at benkuhn.net
- ⭐ Staring into the abyss as a core life skill by Ben Kuhn at benkuhn.net
- Little Rules About Big Things by Morgan Housel at Collab Fund
- ⭐ The Dangers of Treating Life as a Game by Cedric Chin at Commoncog
- Why we stopped making Einsteins by Erik Hoel at The Intrinsic Perspective
- The Small Steps of Giant Leaps at Farnum Street
- ⭐ We are made to live like firemen by Misha Saul at Kvetch
- courage by Molly Mielke at Mind Mud
- ⭐ callings by Molly Mielke at Mind Mud
- critical by Molly Mielke at Mind Mud
- Career Advice by Moxie Marlinspike at Moxie Marlinspike
- What You (Want to)* Want by Paul Graham at Paul Graham
- The Midwit Trap by Philo at MD&A
- Tangle Logic by Venkatesh Rao at ribbonfarm
- ⭐ Start With Creation by Simon Sarris at The Map is Mostly Water
- Long Distance Thinking by Simon Sarris at The Map is Mostly Water
- Working with Your Inner Resistance by Leo Babauta at zen habits
- Overwhelm: The Survival Guide by Leo Babauta at zen habits
- Destroy What You Know by Leo Babauta at zen habits
- On the Shortness of Life by Leo Babauta at zen habits
- Moving From Desire to Action by Leo Babauta at zen habits
- My 10 Rules for Public Speaking by Ted Gioia at The Honest Broker
- The Baloney Detection Kit by Maria Popova at The Marginalian
- ⭐ Designs for Learning by Stephen Stearns at Stearns Lab
- Modest Advice by Stephen Stearns at Stearns Lab
- Prediction Market FAQ by Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten
- Upside decay by Brian Lui at Brian Lui’s blog
Science, Technology, and Progress
- The Simple Cure by Steven Johnson at Adjacent Possible
- Horse-human cooperation is a neurobiological miracle by Janet Jones at Aeon
- ⭐ GPS by Bartosz Ciechanowski at Bartosz Ciechanowski
- ⭐ Mechanical Watch by Bartosz Ciechanowski at Bartosz Ciechanowski
- ⭐ Sound by Bartosz Ciechanowski at Bartosz Ciechanowski
- The bright side of the Covid pandemic by Eric Topol at Eric Topol
- iPhone 13 Pro: The Edge of Intelligent Photography by Sebastiaan de With at Lux
- What Impossible Meant to Feynman by Paul Steinhardt at Nautilus
- ⭐ The story of VaccinateCA by Patrick McKenzie at Works in Progress
- ⭐ The Maintenance Race by Stewart Brand at Works in Progress
- A year of new avenues by Robin Sloan at Robin Sloan
- ⭐ The end of the conservative age by Ryan Avent at The Bellows
- Record-Breaking Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down by Tim Folger at Scientific American
- ⭐ (Excerpts from Alan Kay Emails) by Bret Victor at worrydream
- The Anti-Promethean Backlash by Brink Lindsey at The Permanent Problem
- The Retreat from Reality by Brink Lindsey at The Permanent Problem