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Mind and Psychology
- The Psychology of Human Misjudgment Charlie Munger · 1995
A catalogue of the biases behind bad decisions. - This Is Water David Foster Wallace · 2005
On choosing what you pay attention to. - Don't Blink! The Hazards of Confidence Daniel Kahneman · NYT Magazine · 2011
Why experts trust their gut too much. - The Tail End Tim Urban · Wait But Why · 2015
How little time is left with the people you love. - Why Procrastinators Procrastinate Tim Urban · 2013
The funniest model of procrastination. - Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy Tim Urban · 2013
Expectations vs reality. - The Cook and the Chef Tim Urban · 2015
Reasoning from first principles. - Is Google Making Us Stupid? Nicholas Carr · The Atlantic · 2008
What the internet does to deep reading. - Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? Jean Twenge · The Atlantic · 2017
Phones and teen mental health. - The Coddling of the American Mind Lukianoff and Haidt · The Atlantic · 2015
Fragility, anxiety and campus culture. - The 'Busy' Trap Tim Kreider · NYT · 2012
Busyness as a status symbol. - Solitude and Leadership William Deresiewicz · The American Scholar · 2010
Thinking for yourself needs time alone. - Hellhole Atul Gawande · The New Yorker · 2009
What isolation does to the human brain. - Meditations on Moloch Scott Alexander · 2014
Why groups end up in outcomes nobody wants. - Keep Your Identity Small Paul Graham · 2009
Why some topics make people stop thinking.
Money and Economics
- I, Pencil Leonard Read · 1958
Nobody alone knows how to make a pencil. - The Use of Knowledge in Society Friedrich Hayek · 1945
Prices as a way of sharing information. - Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren John Maynard Keynes · 1930
His guess about a 15-hour work week. - Ricardo's Difficult Idea Paul Krugman · 1996
Comparative advantage, explained plainly. - How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? Paul Krugman · NYT Magazine · 2009
The profession after 2008. - The Quiet Coup Simon Johnson · The Atlantic · 2009
Banks, power and the 2008 crisis. - Wall Street on the Tundra Michael Lewis · Vanity Fair · 2009
How Iceland's banks blew up a country. - The Great Moderation Ben Bernanke · 2004
Read it knowing what came in 2008. - The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville Warren Buffett · 1984
The case for value investing. - The Psychology of Money Morgan Housel · 2018
Behaviour matters more than knowledge. - How to Make Wealth Paul Graham · 2004
Wealth is created, not just shared out. - How to Get Rich (without getting lucky) Naval Ravikant · 2019
Leverage, skills and ownership. - Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Satoshi Nakamoto · 2008
Nine pages that started crypto. - Nobel Prize lecture Esther Duflo · 2019
Testing what actually reduces poverty. - Nobel Peace Prize lecture Muhammad Yunus · 2006
Microcredit and the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh.
History and Civilisation
- The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race Jared Diamond · Discover · 1987
Was farming a bad deal? - 1491 Charles Mann · The Atlantic · 2002
The Americas before Columbus were far bigger than we were taught. - The East India Company: the original corporate raiders William Dalrymple · The Guardian · 2015
How a company took over India. - The Great Divide William Dalrymple · The New Yorker · 2015
The violence of Partition. - Shooting an Elephant George Orwell · 1936
An officer in colonial Burma. - Hiroshima John Hersey · The New Yorker · 1946
Six survivors of the bomb. - Eichmann in Jerusalem Hannah Arendt · The New Yorker · 1963
The 'banality of evil'. - Letter from Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Jr. · 1963
Why waiting for justice is not enough. - The Case for Reparations Ta-Nehisi Coates · The Atlantic · 2014
Housing, race and American history. - The End of History? Francis Fukuyama · 1989
The famous claim that liberal democracy had won. - The Clash of Civilizations? Samuel Huntington · Foreign Affairs · 1993
The main rival theory. - The Clash of Ignorance Edward Said · The Nation · 2001
Said's reply to Huntington. - Welcome to the age of anger Pankaj Mishra · The Guardian · 2016
Old roots of today's populism. - Horizontal History Tim Urban · 2016
Who was alive at the same time as whom. - The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. Max Roser · Our World in Data
Long-run data on human living conditions.
AI and Technology
- As We May Think Vannevar Bush · The Atlantic · 1945
Imagined the web 50 years early. - Computing Machinery and Intelligence Alan Turing · Mind · 1950
The 'imitation game'. - Why the Future Doesn't Need Us Bill Joy · Wired · 2000
An early warning from a tech insider. - Why Software Is Eating the World Marc Andreessen · 2011
Every industry becomes a software industry. - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks Andrej Karpathy · 2015
A hands-on look at how language models learn. - Software 2.0 Andrej Karpathy · 2017
Code written by data instead of people. - The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence Tim Urban · 2015
The best beginner's guide to the big questions. - The Bitter Lesson Rich Sutton · 2019
Why general methods plus compute keep winning. - On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots Bender, Gebru and others · 2021
The main critique of large language models. - ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web Ted Chiang · The New Yorker · 2023
A useful metaphor for what LLMs do. - Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough Eliezer Yudkowsky · Time · 2023
The strongest version of the doom case. - Machines of Loving Grace Dario Amodei · 2024
What AI could do for biology, health and poverty. Very relevant to biomedicine. - Situational Awareness Leopold Aschenbrenner · 2024
AI as a national-security race. - The Intelligence Age Sam Altman · 2024
The optimist's short case. - AI as Normal Technology Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor · 2025
The counter-view: AI will spread slowly, like electricity.
Science, Biology and Medicine
- Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation Hanahan and Weinberg · Cell · 2011
The framework most cancer papers still cite. - Hallmarks of Cancer: New Dimensions Douglas Hanahan · Cancer Discovery · 2022
The 2022 update. - Understanding the Warburg Effect Vander Heiden, Cantley and Thompson · Science · 2009
Why cancer cells rewire metabolism. - The energetics of genome complexity Nick Lane and William Martin · Nature · 2010
Why mitochondria made complex life possible. - Can a biologist fix a radio? Yuri Lazebnik · Cancer Cell · 2002
A funny, sharp critique of how biology studies apoptosis. - In Girl's Last Hope, Altered Immune Cells Beat Leukemia Denise Grady · NYT · 2012
Emily Whitehead, the first child given CAR-T for B-ALL. - The Promise and Price of Cellular Therapies Siddhartha Mukherjee · The New Yorker · 2019
CAR-T from bone-marrow transplants to today, and its cost. - Cancer's Invasion Equation Siddhartha Mukherjee · The New Yorker · 2017
Seed and soil: why the environment matters. - The Cost Conundrum Atul Gawande · The New Yorker · 2009
Why one town spent twice as much on care. - The Checklist Atul Gawande · The New Yorker · 2007
A simple list that saves lives in ICUs. - Letting Go Atul Gawande · The New Yorker · 2010
Medicine and the end of life. - How the Pandemic Defeated America Ed Yong · The Atlantic · 2020
Pulitzer-winning account of COVID-19 failures. - AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology DeepMind · 2020
Protein structure prediction, the AI-biology bridge. - Nobel Prize lecture Jennifer Doudna · 2020
The story of CRISPR from the person who built it. - Cargo Cult Science Richard Feynman · 1974
Scientific integrity, in one talk.
Research, Academia and Careers
- You and Your Research Richard Hamming · 1986
Why some scientists do great work and most don't. - The importance of stupidity in scientific research Martin Schwartz · J Cell Sci · 2008
Feeling stupid is part of the job. - How to Choose a Good Scientific Problem Uri Alon · Molecular Cell · 2009
Feasibility vs interest, and the 'cloud'. - Strong Inference John Platt · Science · 1964
Design experiments that rule things out. - Why Most Published Research Findings Are False John Ioannidis · PLoS Medicine · 2005
The paper behind the replication crisis. - The Matthew Effect in Science Robert Merton · Science · 1968
Why credit goes to the already famous. - The mismeasurement of science Peter Lawrence · Current Biology · 2007
What impact factors do to research. - Ten Simple Rules for Getting Published Philip Bourne · PLoS Comp Bio · 2005
Practical and short. - Principles of Effective Research Michael Nielsen · 2004
Habits for a research life. - Science, the Endless Frontier Vannevar Bush · 1945
The report that created modern science funding. - We Need a New Science of Progress Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen · The Atlantic · 2019
Studying how progress happens. - The disposable academic The Economist · 2010
The hard numbers on PhD jobs. - How to Do Great Work Paul Graham · 2023
Curiosity, taste and persistence. - How to Do What You Love Paul Graham · 2006
Choosing work honestly. - Cities and Ambition Paul Graham · 2008
Where you live shapes what you aim for. Worth reading before a move abroad.
India and South Asia
- Hind Swaraj M. K. Gandhi · 1909
His critique of modern civilisation and idea of self-rule. - Annihilation of Caste B. R. Ambedkar · 1936
The undelivered speech that still shapes debate on caste. - Final speech to the Constituent Assembly ('Grammar of Anarchy') B. R. Ambedkar · 1949
Three warnings for the new republic. - Nobel Prize lecture Rabindranath Tagore · 1921
Tagore on East and West. - Nobel Prize lecture: The molecular scattering of light C. V. Raman · 1930
Indian science on the world stage. - Nobel Prize lecture S. Chandrasekhar · 1983
On stars, and the patience of science. - Nobel Peace Prize lecture Norman Borlaug · 1970
The Green Revolution that fed India and Pakistan. - Democracy as a Universal Value Amartya Sen · Journal of Democracy · 1999
Why democracy is not just a Western idea; famines and a free press. - Nobel Prize lecture: The Possibility of Social Choice Amartya Sen · 1998
Welfare economics and how societies decide. - Nobel Prize lecture Abhijit Banerjee · 2019
Evidence-based fights against poverty. - Is India a Flailing State? Lant Pritchett · Harvard · 2009
A strong head, weak limbs: the classic diagnosis of Indian governance. - Has India's 'flailing state' been turned upside down? Milan Vaishnav · Seminar · 2022
Pritchett's idea revisited 13 years later. - From emerging superpower to failed state? Scroll · 2021
How views of the Indian state shifted during COVID-19. - Nobel Peace Prize lecture Kailash Satyarthi · 2014
Child labour and child rights. - Nobel Peace Prize lecture Malala Yousafzai · 2014
Girls' education in Pakistan and beyond.
Geopolitics and the World
- The Sources of Soviet Conduct George Kennan ('X') · Foreign Affairs · 1947
The article behind Cold War containment. - The Tragedy of the Commons Garrett Hardin · Science · 1968
Shared resources and why they get overused. - The Coming Anarchy Robert Kaplan · The Atlantic · 1994
A dark forecast of state collapse. - The Rise of Illiberal Democracy Fareed Zakaria · Foreign Affairs · 1997
Elections without liberty. - Nobel Peace Prize lecture Nelson Mandela · 1993
The end of apartheid. - Nobel Peace Prize lecture Wangari Maathai · 2004
Trees, women and peace in Kenya. - How to Write About Africa Binyavanga Wainaina · Granta · 2005
A satire of Western clichés about Africa. - Global Warming's Terrifying New Math Bill McKibben · Rolling Stone · 2012
The carbon budget in three numbers. - The Uninhabitable Earth David Wallace-Wells · New York · 2017
The worst-case climate scenarios. - Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault John Mearsheimer · Foreign Affairs · 2014
The realist view. - On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians Vladimir Putin · 2021
Primary source: read it to understand the 2022 invasion's justification, not as history. - The Thucydides Trap Graham Allison · The Atlantic · 2015
Can the US and China avoid war? - How the Enlightenment Ends Henry Kissinger · The Atlantic · 2018
AI as a geopolitical shock. - Why Technology Favors Tyranny Yuval Noah Harari · The Atlantic · 2018
Data, AI and authoritarian power. - The Bad Guys Are Winning Anne Applebaum · The Atlantic · 2021
How autocracies help each other.
Philosophy and Living Well
- Moral Letters to Lucilius Seneca · c. 65 CE
Short Stoic letters; start with Letter 1, on time. - Self-Reliance (in Essays: First Series) Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841
Trust your own judgement. - Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau · 1849
The essay that influenced Gandhi and King. - In Praise of Idleness Bertrand Russell · Harper's · 1932
The case for working less. - Famine, Affluence, and Morality Peter Singer · 1972
Written about the 1971 East Bengal crisis; the 'drowning child' argument. - Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism Martha Nussbaum · Boston Review · 1994
Builds on Tagore's The Home and the World. - On Self-Respect Joan Didion · Vogue · 1961
Character as taking responsibility for your life. - The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant Nick Bostrom · 2005
A parable about ageing and death. - Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? Nick Bostrom · 2003
The simulation argument. - Commencement address ('Stay hungry, stay foolish') Steve Jobs · Stanford · 2005
Three stories about life and death. - Advice to graduates George Saunders · Syracuse · 2013
On regretting failures of kindness. - The Moral Bucket List David Brooks · NYT · 2015
Résumé virtues vs eulogy virtues. - Regrets of the Dying Bronnie Ware
Five regrets heard from patients in palliative care. - How Long Have I Got Left? Paul Kalanithi · NYT · 2014
A neurosurgeon on his own cancer. - My Own Life Oliver Sacks · NYT · 2015
Gratitude after a terminal diagnosis.
Writing, Thinking and Learning
- Of Studies (in The Essays) Francis Bacon · 1625
'Some books are to be tasted…' The original short essay. - Essays Michel de Montaigne · 1580
The man who invented the essay; try 'Of Experience'. - Politics and the English Language George Orwell · 1946
Six rules for clear writing. - Why I Write George Orwell · 1946
Four motives behind every writer. - The Science of Scientific Writing Gopen and Swan · American Scientist · 1990
Where readers expect information in a sentence. - Why Academics Stink at Writing Steven Pinker · Chronicle of Higher Education · 2014
Fixing academic prose. - Write Simply Paul Graham · 2021
Short and to the point. - Putting Ideas into Words Paul Graham · 2022
Writing as a way of thinking. - The Age of the Essay Paul Graham · 2004
What an essay is really for. - How Do People Get New Ideas? Isaac Asimov · 1959
On creativity. (Written 1959, published 2014.) - Augmenting Long-term Memory Michael Nielsen · 2018
Using spaced repetition (Anki) to learn papers deeply. - Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions Farnam Street
A toolkit from many fields. - The Cathedral and the Bazaar Eric S. Raymond · 1997
How open-source collaboration works. - Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art Ted Chiang · The New Yorker · 2024
Art as a series of choices. - The Fermi Paradox Tim Urban · 2014
Where is everybody? Pure curiosity, well explained.