Interesting blogs

Irrational Exuberance - Will Larson

https://lethain.com

• Leadership
• Strategy
• System thinking

Derek Sivers

https://sive.rs/

• Deep thinker
• Nomad
• Musician and entrepreneur

A Smart Bear - Jason Cohen

https://longform.asmartbear.com/exponential-growth/

https://longform.asmartbear.com/fulfillment/

• Startups and bootstrapping
• Product management
• Marketing — Why hypergrowth is quadratic

matklad - Alex Kladov

https://matklad.github.io/2023/08/06/fantastic-learning-resources.html#Fantastic-Learning-Resources

• Programming and algorithms
• Rust

Eli Bendersky

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/measuring-context-switching-and-memory-overheads-for-linux-threads/

• Programming

Tania Rascia

https://www.taniarascia.com/me

• All things web development
• Music

Armin Ronacher

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/tags/thoughts/

Vgel.me

https://vgel.me/posts/c500/

• C compiler in 500 lines
• SDF renderer in 47 lines
• LLM from scratch

Coding horror - Jeff Atwood

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-cloud-is-just-someone-elses-computer/

Harrison Scott Key

https://longreads.com/2023/12/06/christmas-holidays-alone-not-home/

https://www.salon.com/2018/11/05/the-great-american-dream-value-menu-the-hard-truths-nobody-tells-young-people-about-their-dreams/

• Great writing

Logical.li - Gustavo Carvalho-Homen

https://logical.li/about/ https://logical.li/blog/entropy/

• Software eng managemwnt
• With a physics twist

Anne-Laure Le Cunff - Ness Labs

https://nesslabs.com/job-titles

• Personal growth
• From a neuroscience and PM background

Slava Akhmechet

https://www.spakhm.com/p/how-to-get-promoted

• Unconventional take on engineering and corporate life

Boz

https://boz.com/articles/strength-weakness https://boz.com/articles/focus-on-impact

• Leadership, CTO, being vulnerable

Brandur

https://brandur.org/aws-intrinsic-static

• Technology, software, APIs

Brian Storti

https://www.brianstorti.com/

• distributed systems 101
• Kubernetes

Victoria Drake

https://victoria.dev/blog/breaking-bottlenecks/

• software
• tech leadership
• dev efficiency

Amin Eftegarie

https://eftegarie.com/

• Investments
• knowing interesting people

Maciej Cegłowski - Idlewords

https://idlewords.com/

Joel Spolsky

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

• software development
• management
• business

Maggie Appleton

https://maggieappleton.com/garden

Joel Hooks

https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden/

Tom Critchlow - Independent consulting

https://tomcritchlow.com/

Charity Majors - Eng management and Tech

https://charity.wtf/2023/05/01/choose-boring-technology-culture/

Marianne Bellotti - Eng management

https://bellmar.medium.com/all-the-best-engineering-advice-i-stole-from-non-technical-people-eb7f90ca2f5f

Tom MacWright

https://macwright.com/2022/11/18/optimism-updates

James Hague - Programming in the 21st century

https://prog21.dadgum.com/

Jason Fried - Basecamp

https://startbootstrap.com/previews/landing-page

Breaking Smart

https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/into-the-weirding-part-1

• futurism, geopolitics

Mostly Harmless - Rob Rhinehart

https://www.robrhinehart.com/

• innovation, spirituality

Kalzumeus

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/do-not-end-the-week-with-nothing

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/17/ramit-sethi-and-patrick-mckenzie-on-getting-your-first-consulting-client/

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/21/ramit-sethi-and-patrick-mckenzie-on-why-your-customers-would-be-happier-if-you-charged-more/

• advice for consultans
• power of side projects and building OSS
• get your work known

Paolo’s weblog

https://val.demar.in/about/

• Italian, CTO, living in London, interesting perspective on IT and Italy

Cold Takes - futurism, growth, AI

https://www.cold-takes.com/

Dragons Abound

https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-forever-project.html

• procedural terrain generation

Morgan Housel

http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/the-optimal-amount-of-hassle/

• Optimal amount of hassle

Jamie Wong

http://jamie-wong.com/post/speedscope/

Nelson Elhage

https://blog.nelhage.com/

• sw eng, Stripe

Gradient Ascent

https://albertazout.substack.com/p/gradient-ascent-10

• advanced machine learning
• entrepreneur, investor

Nested - Jeff Schwab

https://nested.substack.com/p/short-fat-engineers-are-undervalued

Ruben Ugarte

https://rubenugarte.substack.com/p/i-dont-want-to-do-our-cheat-way-of

• Company strategy
• Planning

Native Places

https://nativeplaces.org/

• Art and wonder
• Slow life

Porkbrain

https://porkbrain.com/

• Links to interesting essays
• Database
• Math, control theory

… and orher blogs to explore

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