My favourite blogs

Thu Aug 10 2023E.W.Ayers

Technology

• Erik Bernhardsson
• Jamie Brandon
• Lambda the Ultimate is a programming languages news/articles aggregation blog.
• Lilian Weng does the best AI blogging
• Andrej Karpathy (+ some Medium posts) - Edan Meyer (video) does fantastic AI paper reviews.
• Vitalik Buterin is a steady but optimistic voice in cryptocurrencies.

Software business

• Paul Graham, the best-of is in a book Hackers and Painters.
• Joel Spolsky unfortunately doesn't blog anymore but there is a big backlog. I recommend the printed collections.
• Trung Phan's SatPost.
• Nikhil Suresh

Progressive philosophy

By this I mean this new blend of progress studies, rationalism and effective altruism.

• Scott Alexander
• Dwarkesh Patel is the best podcaster ever. I've listened to most of the episodes twice. (youtube channel)
• Zvi Mowshowitz, also an AI newsletter. He also wrote detailed weekly reports of the pandemic.
• Construction Physics by Brian Potter. I love technical articles aimed at a non-specialist and this hits perfectly.
• Devon Zuegel is fantastic.
• Marginal Revolution is a stream-of-conciousness firehose but it's good.

Other

• Sam Kriss is an excellent writer, reminds me of Charlie Brooker's old Guardian articles.
• Exurbia (youtube) does fun youtube videos and also good fiction.
• CGP Grey (youtube)