My docket of favorites:

Writers/bloggers:

  1. Paul Graham (Y Combinator)
  2. Ben Kuhn (Anthropic)
  3. Alexey Guzey
  4. Neel Nanda (Deepmind)
  5. Gwern
  6. Trent Bricken
  7. Others: (Twitter) @tautologer, @wordgrammer, @naval, @signull, @atomsnotbits, @arfurrock. lesswrong

Essays:

  1. On taste and what to work on: Y Combinator Request for Startups, PG, Elad Gil’s Defense Tech, AI Stack
  2. On productivity: Neel Nanda, Alexey Guzey
  3. On why to write: Ben Kuhn
  4. Advice/College: Ben Kuhn, Chris Olah, Sam Altman

Technical content:

  1. distill.pub (ML concepts)
  2. fast.ai (Neural Networks)
  3. Kaparthy’s YT (the GOAT himself)
  4. Phil Wang (Implements almost all papers)
  5. 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)

  1. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  2. The Great Alone by Hannah Kristin
  3. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  4. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
  5. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Music at the moment:

  1. Luke Chiang
  2. Vulfpeck
  3. Sherlock soundtrack (BBC)
  4. yung kai
  5. Laufey

Athletes (UFC + running):

  1. Islam Makhachev
  2. Paddy Pimblett
  3. Ilia Topuria
  4. Eliud Kipchoge

Images: