Tynan tynan.com
Twenty years of near-daily posts on living deliberately: habits, gear, cruise ships, and an island he bought with friends. His yearly gear post is a genre of its own.
Patrick McKenzie kalzumeus.com
patio11. Wrote the salary negotiation essay everyone forwards, then Bits about Money, on the plumbing underneath finance. Built VaccinateCA when nobody else would.
Scott Alexander astralcodexten.com
Slate Star Codex, continued. Psychiatry, prediction markets, book reviews, and the occasional 10,000-word essay that quietly rearranges your priors.
Patrick Collison patrickcollison.com
Stripe co-founder. His site is mostly lists—questions, books, things that got built fast—which is exactly the right way to do a personal site.
Nadia Asparouhova nadia.xyz
Working in Public, then Antimemetics, on why some ideas resist spreading. Lately writing about the jhanas, which is where our interests cross.
Nat Friedman nat.org
One page, two lists, no navigation. My beliefs page owes his an obvious debt. He also tested Bay Area food for plastic chemicals, which is very much my kind of project.
Gwern gwern.net
The most thorough person on the internet. Spaced repetition, the scaling hypothesis, anime, nootropics—everything footnoted, everything still being edited.
Andy Matuschak andymatuschak.org
Tools for thought, taken seriously. Quantum Country and Orbit make the case that a book should quiz you back; his working notes make the case for thinking in public.
Paul Graham paulgraham.com
The essays. Still the same unstyled HTML it was in 2001, which is the point.
Tyler Cowen marginalrevolution.com
Marginal Revolution, every single day since 2003. Read everything, travel everywhere, ask what’s the best version of the thing. A production function disguised as a blog.
Dan Wang danwang.co
His annual letter is the best thing I read each January. Seven of them became Breakneck, on China as an engineering state and America as a lawyerly one.
Alexey Guzey guzey.com
Took apart Why We Sleep, founded New Science, and wrote the definitive guide to making friends over the internet. Fitting, for this page.