My docket of favorites:
Writers/bloggers:
- Paul Graham (Y Combinator)
- Ben Kuhn (Anthropic)
- Alexey Guzey
- Neel Nanda (Deepmind)
- Gwern
- Trent Bricken
- Others: (Twitter) @tautologer, @wordgrammer, @naval, @signull, @atomsnotbits, @arfurrock. lesswrong
Essays:
- On taste and what to work on: Y Combinator Request for Startups, PG, Elad Gil’s Defense Tech, AI Stack
- On productivity: Neel Nanda, Alexey Guzey
- On why to write: Ben Kuhn
- Advice/College: Ben Kuhn, Chris Olah, Sam Altman
Technical content:
- distill.pub (ML concepts)
- fast.ai (Neural Networks)
- Kaparthy’s YT (the GOAT himself)
- Phil Wang (Implements almost all papers)
- AI 2027 (AI agents, safety and infrastructure)
Favourite Books (fiction):
Essays/blogs have higher info to word ratio so I’m reading less non-fiction (for now)
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- The Great Alone by Hannah Kristin
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Music at the moment:
- Luke Chiang
- Vulfpeck
- Sherlock soundtrack (BBC)
- yung kai
- Laufey
Athletes (UFC + running):
- Islam Makhachev
- Paddy Pimblett
- Ilia Topuria
- Eliud Kipchoge