(Note to self: This is updated up to episode 75 of the newsletter)
Here is a list of all the posts and articles I have recommended over the course of the Astukari Newsletter. I have removed all paywalled or 404 links, and categorized by general content.
Bite-sized
How to get rich, without getting lucky
40 Concepts for Understanding the World
10 years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned
100 Things I Learned in 10 Years and 100 Reads of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations
Ryan Holiday’s 33 Favorite Pieces of Advice
How To Handle Negative Comments
The Basecamp Guide to Internal Communication
The Daily Routines of 12 Famous Writers
99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice
Art & Media
Fonts in Use: Neon Genesis Evangelion
The Kanye West 2020 GQ Interviews
A Post Mortem on Dungeons of Edera
The Furry Lisa, CryptoArt, & The New Economy of Digital Creativity
Science & Technology
Smart homes, machine learning, and discovery
Black, Hot Ice May Be Nature’s Most Common Form of Water
A 53-Year-Old Network Coloring Conjecture Is Disproved
How Swarming Insects Act Like Fluids
A Two-Track Algorithm To Detect Deepfake Images
Decentralized identity and reputation
The World’s First Gattaca Baby Tests Are Finally Here
Why is black plastic so hard to recycle?
What I learned from chess and computers
Not even wrong: Predicting tech
Shock-Dissipating Fractal Cubes Could Forge High-Tech Armor
Self-Replicating Chernobyl Mold Tested on ISS as a Space Radiation Shield
Advancing AI to make shopping easier for everyone
Quickly Training Game-Playing Agents with Machine Learning
Why web3 distributed libraries will change the world
The Math of the Amazing Sandpile
Building 2,000 Unique SEO Pages with GPT-3
Mental Models & Biases
Learn the game, don’t become the game
How to Increase Your Luck Surface Area
To Get Good, Go After The Metagame
Feeling Good: Justin’s Program
May The Odds Be Ever in Your Favor
Nassim Taleb on the Notion of Alternative Histories
The Most Important Question of Your Life
Concept-Shaped Holes can be Impossible to Notice
I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup
Social Status: Down the Rabbit Hole
The Most Precious Resource is Agency
Investing & Crypto
Lessons Learned Turning $5k into $200k
Infrastructure investment tricks
Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective
Investment Principles and Checklists
On Value, Velocity, and Monetary Theory
Save Like A Pessimist, Invest Like An Optimist
Stablecoins, Stability, and Financial Inclusion
Business & Entrepreneurship
30 Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup
A profitability roadmap for the fast-changing automotive sector
Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice
23 rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle
How I Hit $100k/yr on GitHub Sponsors
Defining Interactive E-Commerce
Sustainable Sources of Competitive Advantage
No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees
The Evolution of the Influencer
How China is Chasing in on Group Chats
Elon Musk’s Battle to Sell Cars the Way Apple Sells iPads
How do content creators make money?
We Need 100x More Creators Online
The Part Time Creator Manifesto
Why the Canadian Tech Scene Doesn’t Work
Amazon 2020 Letter to Shareholders
Design Patterns for Managing Up
The Secret to a Great Planning Process
How Experts are Turning their Ideas to Currency
Give Away 99% For Free, Monetize the Last 1%
Starbucks, monetary superpower
Education & Learning
The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer
How To Rapidly Improve At Any Programming Language
Narratives & Profiles
What Impossible Meant to Feynman
The Secrets of the World’s Greatest Art Thief
He Was Once a Macro God. Now Alan Howard Wants to Be More Than That.
Who killed the prime minister?
The working witches of Los Angeles just want you to be your best self
Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide
The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann
11 Reasons Not to Become Famous