Reading

A way to keep track of most of the things I read. Mostly better, long(er) form content. I read a lot of shitty tweets and other content that aren’t included here.


I try to tag the readings when I have time (they’re sort of messy and have a lot of overlap), but you can sort of use them to search/filter. I tag things with wow if I think it’s really interesting and worth reading.

2025

YouTubers Experience Peaceful and Traditional Life in Rongchang on Jan 1 #china
Dear Spotify. Can we just get a table of songs? on Jan 1 #tech #design
The Cows in the Coal Mine - Marginal REVOLUTION on Jan 1
Review on Amazon: Missing Some Critical Facts on Jan 1 #funny
Bell Labs Org Chart on Jan 1
I am rich and have no idea what to do with my life on Jan 5 #career #tech #life
Epoch Semantic Versioning on Jan 7 #dev
How Luma Works on Jan 8 #career #tech
Short Quantum Computing - Several 90%+ downside stocks with clear catalysts - Part 1 on Jan 8 #econ
How I Use Claude on Jan 9 #tech #dev
Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race on Jan 12 #china
Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC - by Brian Potter on Jan 13 #china #inspo
How China’s ‘reform and opening up’ transformed poor families into middle-class shoppers on Jan 13 #china
揭秘DeepSeek:一个更极致的中国技术理想主义故事 on Jan 14 #tech #china
Cognitive load is what matters on Jan 14 #dev #career
Nuclear Energy’s Bottom Line - The Atlantic on Jan 14 #society #science
How I got here - Inside thoughts on Jan 18 #inspo #tech
Five years of React Native at Shopify (2025) - Shopify on Jan 18 #dev
About the New Architecture · React Native on Jan 19 #dev
Music Theory that isn't boring - Lightnote on Jan 19 #edu
A Personal Note From Our Founder – Hindenburg Research on Jan 20 #inspo
How big data helped Airbus avoid a potential catastrophic accident - The Air Current on Jan 20 #science
Inside the Houthis’ moneymaking machine | The Economist on Jan 21 #society
Creation | anyon_e on Jan 24 #inspo #tech
DeepSeek FAQ – Stratechery by Ben Thompson on Jan 27
Less on Jan 30 #inspo
Liang Wenfeng, the DeepSeek founder panicking the tech world on Jan 31 #china #tech
An investors guide to key executive orders on Feb 6 #econ
Jack Ma's Bund Finance Summit Speech - by Kevin Xu on Feb 8 #china
2024 Annual Letter: Generational Company, Generational Wealth on Feb 13 #econ
Are AlphaFold's new results a miracle or a mirage? on Feb 13 #science #tech
The Divine Engineer of Ancient Sichuan on Feb 17 #china
Deep Research and Knowledge Value – Stratechery by Ben Thompson on Feb 19 #tech #china
We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It — The New Atlantis on Feb 19 #society
Why you should measure tail latencies | Roberto Vitillo's Blog on Feb 21 #dev
When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines · Jaz's Blog on Feb 21 #dev
Seeing Like a State How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed | Department of Political Science on Feb 24 #society #china
Nomadland star Charlene Swankie sends film earnings to South Sudan on Mar 2
Beijing versus Shanghai, Pastoralism as key to civilization, and why I travel (again) on Mar 5 #china #society
The meaning of, and in, McDonald's on Mar 6 #society
wow Why it's so hard to build a jet engine - by Brian Potter on Mar 13 #society #science
Building what customers need, not just what they ask for - Linear Blog on Mar 16 #dev
Founder Mode on Mar 20 #tech
wow Why I joined Zoo | Zoo on Mar 22 #tech #inspo #career
NASA’s Webb Images Young, Giant Exoplanets, Detects Carbon Dioxide - NASA Science on Mar 23
Why I Won't Use Next.js | Epic Web Dev on Mar 23
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans - The Atlantic on Mar 24
Will A.I. Soon Outsmart Humans? Play This Puzzle to Find Out. - The New York Times on Mar 27
Bypassing airport security via SQL injection on Mar 30
Jewel in the crown: Rolls-Royce’s single-crystal turbine blade casting foundry on Mar 31
Bad Ghibli on Apr 3
Minolta MC 300mm f4.5 worth a try? on Apr 6
Sidewalk Garden Transformation in San Francisco on Apr 7
AI usage is now a baseline expectation on Apr 7
Design for the AI age on Apr 9
How Mobbin shipped two internal tools in three months with the tldraw SDK • tldraw Blog on Apr 10
Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit — LessWrong on Apr 14
Very low tech high tech travel on Apr 18
Intuiting TLS | protty on Apr 22
Behind scenes on Apr 23
To Bring Manufacturing Back to America, Close the… | Arnold Ventures on Apr 26
LukeW | Designing Perplexity on Apr 26 #dev #design
How Europe's Market Maker Is Impacting Global Stock Trading - Bloomberg on Apr 26
Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars - NASA Science on Apr 29
The Wandering Lensman: My Current OM-1/Olympus Kit; Versatility and Image Quality In A Small Package on May 7
wow June Huh, High School Dropout, Wins the Fields Medal | Quanta Magazine on May 9 #inspo
I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out on May 11
To Get More Signal From Coding Interviews, Stop Saying This Word | Mandy Musings on May 11
Is it Euro-poor, or Ameri-poor? on May 14
The rising cost of cooking from my culture - by Mei Liao on May 17
What You'll Wish You'd Known on May 21
CRISPY CHICKEN THIGHS AND RED COCONUT CURRY on May 27
Find Your People - Jessica Livingston on May 28
Highlight: March 2024 on May 28
Apple Retreats – Stratechery by Ben Thompson on Jun 10
Race to Tokyo: JAL and Finnair’s separate paths from Helsinki | Flightradar24 Blog on Jun 18
Forty eight hours in Montreal, Logistics of Long Walks, Bad Delta, and Turtles on Jun 22
Inside Xiaomi’s Silicon Empire - by Moore Morris on Jun 24
Honkish on Jun 28 #inspo
Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?) \ Anthropic on Jun 28
New Renderings Showcase Related Companies and Wynn Resorts' Master Plan for Phase Two of Hudson Yards - New York YIMBY on Jun 30
Exclusive: Intel's new CEO explores big shift in chip manufacturing business | Reuters on Jul 3
To grow your business, you have to make big bets on Jul 4
How to build the perfect city on Jul 5
Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin on Jul 6
North Korea Infiltrated America by Taking Remote US IT Jobs - Bloomberg on Jul 31
How I raw-dogged vacation - by Tiffany - Cyber Celibate on Aug 4
New details emerge about Japan's notorious WWII germ warfare program on Aug 14
What's it like to live in a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright? This 101-year-old knows : NPR on Aug 18
wow Reflections on Palantir - Nabeel S. Qureshi on Aug 18 #tech #inspo
grug.design on Aug 20
How To Understand Things - Nabeel S. Qureshi on Aug 22
Lessons from Peter Thiel | Posts | 8VC on Aug 24
No one had retired into tranquility quite like David Geffen. Now, the billionaire is fighting for his fortune in an explosive divorce with a model 50 years his junior. What went so wrong? on Aug 26
You Have to Feel It – Mitchell Hashimoto on Aug 30
iPhones 17 and the Sugar Water Trap – Stratechery by Ben Thompson on Sep 10
Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks on Oct 22
Tales from Toddlerhood — Wait But Why on Oct 31
Historic Meatpacking District Loses Last Butcher Shop on Nov 2
Nothing But Respect For This Manual Ear And Nose Hair Trimmer - Aftermath on Nov 6
Some final China thoughts, a short political rant, and my upcoming England walk on Nov 18
Olmo 3 is a fully open LLM on Nov 23
Claude Opus 4.5, and why evaluating new LLMs is increasingly difficult on Nov 24
[untitled] - Not Boring by Packy McCormick on Nov 25
Metro-North Railroad’s Leaf-Zapping ‘Laser Train’ on Nov 27

2024

Choose optimism — Steph Ango on Jan 1
Stories from America (Part 1) on Aug 17 #society
Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds | WIRED on May 16 #dev
Prompt Engineering Best Practices on Jan 1
Inside the Life of Nicole Shanahan, RFK Jr.’s Running Mate - The New York Times on May 22 #society
The Hole: New York's Post-Apocalyptic Backyard - Untapped New York on Jan 3 #society #environment
What Denali’s road closure means for its wildlife - High Country News on Sep 13 #environment
wow Palmer Luckey, American Vulcan - Tablet Magazine on Sep 14 #tech #inspo #career
The enigma of the Lascaux Bird Man: The erection that embodies the mysteries of prehistoric art | Opinion | EL PAÍS English on May 15 #society
Revolut to Spin Out $9.5 Billion Wealth Assets With New Platform - Bloomberg on Sep 24 #econ
China’s ‘Silver Economy’ Is Thriving as Birthrate Plunges - The New York Times on Sep 24 #china #econ
How to Beat Online Poker: Russian Group Won Big With AI on Sep 24 #econ #tech
These are the AI companies that the CIA is investing in - Sherwood News on Sep 24 #tech #career
The Abandoned Fishing Village of Houtouwan - The Atlantic on Sep 25 #environment #photo
13 companies from YC Demo Day 1 that are worth paying attention to | TechCrunch on Sep 25 #tech #career
That time I beat a casino as a kid on Oct 19 #etc
What makes for a dream job? Here's what the evidence says. on Oct 22 #career #inspo
What's new in Kotlin 2.0.0 | Kotlin Documentation on Oct 22 #tech #android
The Trouble with Optionality on Oct 26 #inspo #career
America’s economy is bigger and better than ever on Oct 29 #society #econ
NASA, NOAA Rank 2024 Ozone Hole as 7th-Smallest Since Recovery Began on Oct 31 #environment
CBTC: Upgrading signal technology on Nov 4 #tech
4 years after the giant Arecibo Observatory collapsed, we finally know what happened | Space on Nov 9 #science #environment
Family Values on Aug 18 #inspo #design #dev
Daring Fireball: How It Went on Nov 11 #society #writing
No, the world doesn't hate America on Nov 12 #society
Hurricane Helene’s Gravity Waves Revealed by NASA’s AWE - NASA Science on Nov 13
wow What I Wish Someone Had Told Me - Sam Altman on Feb 17 #inspo #life
The Right Problems on Nov 17
A Chance to Build on Nov 20 #tech #society
Meta’s AI Abundance on Nov 21
Walking Phnom Penh on Nov 23
‘Vicious cycle’ found between excessive napping and Alzheimer’s — Harvard Gazette on Nov 28
Why the Founder of an AI Education Startup Is Now Accused of Fraud on Dec 1
The pursuit of fast feedback loops in Android development on Dec 1
Great teams merge fast on Dec 1
How to Run a CIA Base in Afghanistan - by Santi Ruiz on Apr 15 #society
Mexican Cartels Lure Chemistry Students to Make Fentanyl - The New York Times on Dec 8
Gelsinger's Last Supper - Irrational Analysis on Dec 8
Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » The Google Willow thing on Dec 11
Kyoto from the Water: Sacred Sites and Sun-Dappled Canals - The New York Times on Dec 11
Intel’s Death and Potential Revival – Stratechery by Ben Thompson on Dec 12
Beomagi's thoughts...: A bevy of Vintage 50s and focal reducers on Dec 16
The Death of Intel: When Boards Fail - by Doug O'Laughlin on Dec 16
(1) Walking Japan (again): From Fukuoka to Nagasaki on Dec 19
Why do we still need bundlers? | Rolldown on Dec 26
SAMURAI: Adapting Segment Anything Model for Zero-Shot Visual Tracking with Motion-Aware Memory on Dec 27
Building in the Era of Autonomous Software Development on Dec 27
Un-American Dream | NOWNESS on Dec 27
Notes on China - by Dwarkesh Patel - Dwarkesh Podcast on Dec 28
Anthropic thinks you should build agents like this on Dec 28
2025 Irrational Ideas - Irrational Analysis on Dec 31
A genetically modified purple tomato can now be raised by home gardeners : Shots - Health News : NPR on Feb 8 #science #food
AWS acquires Talen’s nuclear data center campus in Pennsylvania - DCD on Apr 3 #tech #society
The Basics - by Thorsten Ball - Register Spill on May 2 #dev #inspo
Intel Honesty – Stratechery by Ben Thompson on Sep 6 #tech #econ
Legal betting changed sports. Now it’s changing the players. - Sherwood News on Apr 16 #sports
Opening Mail / frantic.im on Jan 6
Devastation as world’s biggest wetland burns: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’ | Wildfires | The Guardian on Jul 17 #environment
A Review of Robinhood’s 3 Percent Cash-Back Card - The New York Times on Apr 3 #econ
Sell Your Startup for Half a Billion and Get Nothing on Mar 5 #tech #econ
A Revolution in Biology - by Kasra - Bits of Wonder on Jun 10
Capital One-Discover deal faces Washington buzzsaw | Semafor on Feb 20 #tech #econ
A most wanted man: Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek exposed as decade-long GRU spy on Aug 11 #econ
Cornell Discontinues Median Grade Visibility on Transcripts 15 Years After Inception - The Cornell Daily Sun on Feb 20
It’s a Jane Street world on Jan 11 #econ
Creative Spark: The Making of Robinhood's Gold Campaign - Robinhood Newsroom on Feb 20
Git Notes: git's coolest, most unloved­ feature - Tyler Cipriani on Jan 13 #dev
IKEA Hack - Kivik Sofa (New Legs) on Jan 6
A time traveler’s guide to the stock market - Sherwood News on Jul 19 #econ
How to Fix America’s Immigration Crisis on Jan 10 #society
Vanguard Announces CEO Retirement and Appointment of President – Company Announcement - FT.com on Mar 1 #econ
Vanguard 'nickel-and-dimes Grandma' after 49 years without junk fees on May 20 #econ
The polish paradox || Matthew Ström, designer-leader on May 5
Walking Mongolia beyond Ulaanbaatar - by Noa S on Sep 3 #society
A Chinatown Noodle Dynasty Returns in Style - The New York Times on Feb 11 #food #writing
‘Meme-lord’ Litquidity reveals his true identity on Feb 7 #econ #funny
wow Designing Fluid Interfaces - WWDC18 - Videos - Apple Developer on Aug 9 #inspo #design #dev
Boomer Apple – Stratechery by Ben Thompson on Sep 11 #tech
MKBHDs For Everything – Stratechery by Ben Thompson on Apr 17 #tech
How we grew Mintlify by doing things that don't scale - Mintlify on Jan 26 #tech
KUOW - A cougar attacked them. They fought back for 45 harrowing minutes on Mar 17
National Guard and State Police Will Patrol the Subways and Check Bags on Mar 7 #society
How I'm funded - Daniel Roe on Jan 29 #dev #career
Building a Highly Performant Weather App on Jan 4 #dev #inspo
The Migrant Children Selling Candy in New York Subways on May 30
Chef Shorty Tang Helped Introduce the U.S. to Sesame Noodles. His Son Is Bringing Them Back. on Feb 11 #food
I tried it: A $200 luxury bus to the Hamptons that serves wine while you sit in traffic - Gothamist on Jun 2
Introducing Hoek Home, a Sustainable Flat-Pack Furniture Brand | Apartment Therapy on Jul 1 #design
These 20-something entrepreneurs needed less than a year to sell their company to Ramp | Fortune on Feb 4 #tech
How Art Can Be Good on Feb 11 #art #writing
EMP Weapons and the New Equation of War on Apr 6 #society #science
wow The B Lane Swimmer – Holly Witteman on May 5 #sports #life
How Beeper Mini Works - Beeper Blog on Jan 5 #tech
Inside TSMC’s Phoenix, Arizona expansion struggles - Rest of World on May 2 #funny #china
Stories from America (Part 2) on Aug 31 #society
Why Keith Rabois just left Founders Fund for Khosla Ventures | TechCrunch on Feb 20 #tech
The End of Software on Jun 1
Why the U.S. and China Suddenly Care About a Port in Southern Chile on May 10 #society #environment
The end of Airplane.dev on Jun 3 #career #tech
Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust on Jan 29 #dev
Tales From the Eclipse — Wait But Why on Apr 10 #life #science
Who is pommel horse hero Stephen Nedoroscik : NPR on Jul 30 #sports
How does DuckDuckGo make money? | DuckDuckGo Help Pages on Feb 12 #tech
How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages on May 2
RedTeam Pentesting - Blog - Bitwarden Heist - How to Break Into Password Vaults Without Using Passwords on Jan 5 #tech
Here is something I used to believe by Virtual Riot on Apr 9 #inspo
Apple Intelligence on Jun 7
Visa, Mastercard Reach $30 Billion Swipe-Fee Deal With Merchants - Bloomberg on Apr 3 #econ
How To Do Business Casual Without Looking Like a Schmuck – Put This On on May 13 #inspo #fashion
wow Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare — Kevin Chen on Sep 11 #tech
A submerged Japanese library by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP as a ‘tranquil place’ for reading and rest | News | Archinect on Apr 3 #art #design
Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the scrolls! | Vesuvius Challenge on Feb 8 #science #society #tech
wow work with people who give a shit | prakhesar's blog on Apr 20 #inspo #career #life
Hedge funds make billions as India’s options market goes ballistic on May 6 #econ
Here's How Dirty The NYC Subway Air Really Is - Secret NYC on May 12 #society
Billionaire Marc Benioff is buying up land in Hawaii. And no one knows why : NPR on Feb 29 #society #tech
Family of NYC Chef Shorty Tang Opening Two New Restaurants on Feb 11 #food
Meta's new LLM-based test generator is a sneak peek to the future of development on Mar 1 #tech
All Quiet in the Eastern Port on Apr 6
llama.ttf on Jun 25 #dev
View Nova Explosion, ‘New’ Star in Northern Crown – Watch the Skies on Apr 18 #science
Language shapes the way we think - Steve P Brady on Jan 29 #writing
HEPA Filter 101: Standards and Benefits on Jan 1
Stocketa — PaulStamatiou.com on May 2 #dev #inspo #design
Capital One Is Buying Discover Financial on Feb 20 #econ
i tried to sell dingboard to X. they gave me a job instead on May 13 #inspo #tech
How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction on Mar 1 #tech #dev
The history of tomatoes: How a tropical became a global crop | Illinois Extension | UIUC on Feb 8 #food #society
Introducing Juno for Apple Vision Pro on Feb 4 #dev
wow Progress, Rediscovered on Apr 16 #inspo
The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food - Consumer Reports on May 10 #science #environment
Where have I been? on Jan 18
How Bad Are Ultraprocessed Foods, Really? - The New York Times on May 11 #science #environment
University of Vermont researchers help find new fossils in Greenland ice deposits that rewrite its geological past | Vermont Public on Aug 7 #environment #science
Mount External Drive in TrueNAS on Jan 30 #dev
Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks - Sci Phi Journal on Apr 19 #society
How React 19 (Almost) Made the Internet Slower on Jun 18 #dev
Doing More with Moore: Biotech’s Tech Moment | Andreessen Horowitz on Feb 11
How I built my course platform on Mar 22 #dev
AI Stock Frenzy Spurs $50 Billion ETF Boom in Taiwan - Bloomberg on Apr 17 #econ
Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” video has a shocking revelation: how she holds a pen. on Jan 2 #funny
The Tragedy of Indian Point | City Journal on Apr 16 #society
Android Developers Blog: More frequent, focused updates for Android Studio on May 8 #dev #android
A Stalled American Dream - Chris Arnade Walks the World on Aug 11 #society
TipRanks, an AI-based stock tip evaluator created after its founder got burned by bad advice, sells for $200M to Prytek | TechCrunch on Aug 16 #econ
Pete Wells Reviewed Restaurants for 12 Years. How Have They Changed? - The New York Times on Aug 11 #food
Operation Choke Point 2.0 Is Underway, And Crypto Is In Its Crosshairs on Jul 28 #econ
Gemini and Google’s Culture – Stratechery by Ben Thompson on Apr 10 #tech
git worktree on Jul 1 #dev
These Teenagers Know More About Investing Than You Do on Feb 20 #econ
The cocktail revolution - Works in Progress on Apr 16 #food #society
What Snowflake isn't saying about its customer data breaches | TechCrunch on Jun 8
So Long, and Thanks for All the Bytes | by Chet Haase | Feb, 2024 | Medium on Feb 20 #android