Timeless Essays
The writers I send people to when they ask what to read on the internet.
16 bookmarks
paulgraham.com
Thirty years of essays on startups, cities, and how to think. Every founder has opinions on PG; most of them come from here.
ribbonfarm.com
Venkatesh Rao's long-running blog on strategy, culture, and refactored perception. Dense, weird, occasionally transformative.
waitbutwhy.com
Tim Urban's hand-illustrated 10,000-word posts on AI, procrastination, and the Fermi paradox. Accessible without being shallow.
slatestarcodex.com
Scott Alexander's original blog — medicine, rationality, politics, book reviews. A liberal-arts-degree's worth of reading in the archive.
astralcodexten.com
Scott Alexander's current home on Substack. Still the most thorough book-reviewer writing on the internet.
lesswrong.com
A community built around applying rationality to everyday thinking. Start with the sequences if you have a weekend.
guzey.com
A young researcher writing about sleep, science funding, and the cracks in conventional wisdom. "Why You Should Lie" is the famous one.
meltingasphalt.com
Kevin Simler on social behavior, markets, and self-deception. Updates rarely; worth the wait every time.
pluralistic.net
Daily link blog plus long essays on enshittification, monopoly, and why the internet got worse. Unmissable on platform dynamics.
longform.org
Curated long journalism from across the web. Weekly picks plus the best single-serving reads in the feed.
longreads.com
The venerable destination for feature-length nonfiction. Their "best of the year" lists are a reading list factory.
aeon.co
Philosophy, science, and culture in essay form. Consistently publishes the kind of writing other magazines stopped commissioning.
nautil.us
Science writing with literary sensibilities. Each issue explores a theme; the archive is a maze you'll want to get lost in.
commoncog.com
Cedric Chin's project on expertise, tacit knowledge, and how operators actually learn. Underrated bookmark for practitioners.
sive.rs
Short, clear posts from a musician-turned-founder-turned-philosopher. Start with "Hell yeah or no" and keep clicking.
craigmod.com
Long walks, thick books, and thoughtful photography. Craig writes about Japan, slow publishing, and the internet like few others.