Recommended Writeups
Hey, welcome to my blog that redirects you to other blogs. Here I've recorded a handful of reads I really enjoyed over the past few weeks; bookmarks I need to clear but words I don't wish to forget:
- Being a High-Leverage Generalist from char.blog -- notes by a technical consultant and researcher working on infra, machine learning, and security
- Doing Business in Japan by the very certainly qualified Patrick McKenzie
- Fast by Stripe CEO Patrick Collison lists "examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things"
- GPS explained and demonstrated by the beloved Bartosz Ciechanowski
- How much can you really learn about a country from visiting it? by popular economics writer and Substack overlord Noah Smith of Noahpinion
- Movie Poster of the Week: The Real and Fake Posters for “Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood” by Adrian Curry
- Notes on China by the best podcaster in the game Dwarkesh Patel
- On becoming competitive when joining a new company by *Ludwig*
- Reflections on Palantir by well-traveled startup founder Nabeel S. Qureshi will finally loop you in what Palantir actually does
- The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse is a 2016 paper with some interesting perspective on the origins of the cloud data warehouse market
- Things Unexpectedly Named After People by Roland Crosby (plus some great bonus community additions in this Hacker News thread)
- Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of [other] platform[s] by *hackermondev*, an extremely talented 15-year-old that will never know the pain of searching for a job
Reach out and let me know if you enjoyed any of these as much as I did. And, as always, please share your favorite blog posts or YOUR blog posts with me on X.
One last plug for poetry's sake: tesla.sexy
(The web needs more sites like this!)