Most memorable articles
Eliezer Yudkowsky - Competent Elites - elites (CEOs, hedge fund managers, venture capitalists) are much smarter, happier, more alive than average people
James Somers - I should have loved biology - criticism of the schooling system
Steve Blank - The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free - explains how startups ossify, and the difference between startup and MBA culture
Scott Alexander - How The West Was Won - points out that "Western culture" isn't really Western but rather universal (global) culture that colonizes and consumes other (regional) cultures (including Western culture); the West just had a technological head start so was the first region to discover things that work (e.g. western medicine, Coca-Cola, egalitarian gender norms); a very interesting and intriguing discussion on culture follows
Paul Graham - Life is short - while I don't agree with all the points in the essay (namely, the fact that you have only a few years to spend with your children when they're young - "Christmas-as-magic lasts from say ages 3 to 10" - wouldn't change if human lifespans were 10x as long but childhood stayed equally short), it has some memorable quotes:
bullshit does have a distinctive character. There's something fake about it. It's the junk food of experience.
You take things for granted, and then they're gone.
Cultivate a habit of impatience about the things you most want to do.
When you have small children, there are a lot of moments so perfect that you can't help noticing.
Relentlessly prune bullshit, don't wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That's what you do when life is short.
Personal blogs of techno-optimists
Celine Halioua - founder of Loyal, a longevity biotech startup focusing on dogs (hopefully they can translate their discoveries into extending human lifespan)
antirobust - probably my favourite monthly "Links" newsletter, also features incredibly cool and awesome futuristic aesthetics
kipply - Anthropic (her decision-making) - I particularly liked her thoughts on discrimination ("discrimination looks a lot like stupidity") and her point that credentialism is similar to other forms of discrimination (sexism, racism) but much more prevalent in tech
Ben Kuhn - previously CTO at Wave, now Anthropic
Tristan Hume - also Anthropic, many posts on very technical CS subjects - inspired me to buy a tungsten cube (which is kind-of useless but super cool)
Andy Jones - friend and former coworker, now at Anthropic
Ben Thompson - former coworker, engineer, researcher
Stone Tao - former coworker, ML/robotics researcher
David Stanete - left his CTO job to work on longevity
Nat Friedman - profound advice right on the home page: technology raises the ceiling, do things fast, pro micromanagement, smaller teams are better
Patrick Collison - co-founder of Stripe hence famous, but I love his minimalist website design and some topics he highlights, in particular Fast and Questions
Ada Nguyen - longevity biotech - inspiration for this website
Vincent Weisser - biotech - inspiration for this website
Inspiring companies
Faeth - beat cancer by changing your nutrition to starve it
Quaise - geothermal using energy beams instead of drilling
Freeform - metal 3D printing company building autonomous factories, ex-SpaceX founders
a number of startups building androids (humanoid robots): Tesla, 1X, Clone, Figure, Agility, Sanctuary, Prosper, Apptronik, Fourier, Unitree