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Favorite Articles Read in 2022

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
Published Saturday, January 7, 2023.
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