Links
Links are not endorsements in bulk. They are the small set of people, institutions, tools, and archives I keep close because they improve how I think, build, and decide.
People
- Andrej Karpathy A personal site I keep returning to as a model of how to publish on the web.
- Balaji Srinivasan Networks, money, and the technology of states.
- Byrne Hobart The Diff — where finance and technology actually meet, my favorite lens on both.
- Dan Wang Annual letters on technology, China, and industrial capability.
- Gwern Branwen A living research archive — knowledge that compounds in public.
- Jason Crawford Roots of Progress — the history and philosophy of progress as a deliberate project.
- Maggie Appleton Notes, essays, illustrations. A garden in the proper sense.
- Naval Ravikant Judgment, wealth, and leverage, compressed.
- Patrick Collison The model for this site — relentless curiosity, public questions, and a bookshelf that compounds.
- Paul Graham Not for the opinions but for the demonstration that a long, plain HTML page is still the best reading format anyone has invented.
- Qasar Younis A reminder that quiet, direct, and personal is the best aesthetic.
- Stephen Wolfram Computation as a worldview, written without apology for its length.
- Tyler Cowen Marginal Revolution — relentless cross-disciplinary curiosity, every day.
- Vitalik Buterin Programmable money and trust, argued from primary source.
Research Labs
- Anthropic Research Interpretability, alignment, economics, and model behavior.
- Apollo Research Interpretability and model behavior research.
- ARC Prize / ARC-AGI Intelligence evaluation beyond ordinary benchmark saturation.
- EleutherAI Open research culture for large models.
- Google DeepMind Long-horizon AI research and scientific capability.
- Hugging Face Papers Daily applied AI research signal.
- METR Measuring AI task capability, autonomy, and risk.
- OpenAI Research Frontier models, agents, evals, and system behavior.
- Papers with Code Research linked to implementation and benchmarks.
- Stanford AI Index Annual evidence base for AI progress.
Research Feeds
- Asterisk Magazine Careful science, economics, technology, and policy essays.
- Construction Physics Physical-world infrastructure, cost, energy, and building.
- Dwarkesh Podcast Frontier AI, scaling, institutions, and unusual operators.
- Import AI Jack Clark's field notes on AI capability and policy.
- Interconnects Nathan Lambert on open models, labs, and AI systems.
- Pirate Wires Technology, politics, and power.
- Statecraft State capacity and institutional execution.
- Stratechery Aggregation, platforms, and strategy.
- The Diff Finance and technology where the actual leverage lives.
- Works in Progress Progress, science, institutions, infrastructure.
Data & Evidence
- BIS Statistics Banking, credit, liquidity, and cross-border financial data.
- FRED Macro data backbone.
- GitHub Trending Developer momentum and tooling signal.
- Google Dataset Search Dataset discovery.
- IMF Data Global macro and financial data.
- OECD Data Comparative institutional and economic data.
- Our World in Data Long-run evidence behind progress claims.
- World Bank Data Development, financial inclusion, and country-level data.
Financial Infrastructure
- a16z Crypto Research Protocols, crypto economics, and programmable trust.
- Bank for International Settlements Papers Central-bank-grade research on money and finance.
- Bank of England Staff Working Papers Payments, money, risk, and banking.
- BIS The institutional core of global monetary and banking research.
- BIS Innovation Hub CBDC, tokenization, payment systems, and financial infrastructure experiments.
- Chainalysis Research Crypto flows, illicit finance, and market structure.
- ECB Working Papers Monetary systems, banks, payments, and macro-finance.
- Financial Stability Board Global financial stability, regulation, and systemic risk.
- IMF Fintech Notes Policy-level fintech, crypto, money, and banking analysis.
- NY Fed Liberty Street Economics Banking, liquidity, market structure, and financial plumbing.
AI / Agent Tools
- ChatGPT Frontier general reasoning and multimodal work.
- Claude Long-form reasoning and writing partner.
- Claude Code Agentic coding and repository work.
- Cursor AI-native development environment.
- Elicit Paper discovery and literature review.
- Hugging Face Models, datasets, papers, and spaces.
- LangGraph Stateful agent workflows.
- LM Studio Local model interface and experimentation.
- Mastra TypeScript agent framework.
- Model Context Protocol Standard interface for model-tool/data integration.
- NotebookLM Source-grounded document synthesis.
- Ollama Local model testing.
- OpenAI Codex Agentic software work.
- OpenRouter Model routing and comparison.
- Perplexity Fast web research and source discovery.
Knowledge Tools
- Excalidraw Visual thinking and rough diagrams.
- Hypothes.is Web annotation.
- Logseq Local-first outlining and connected notes.
- Matter Read-later queue and article capture.
- Mermaid Diagrams as text.
- Obsidian Plain markdown knowledge base.
- Raycast Operating system acceleration.
- Readwise Highlight capture and resurfacing.
- Tana Structured notes and knowledge graph experiments.
- Zotero Serious citation and library management.
Building Tools
- Astro Static site framework for fast, quiet personal publishing.
- Cloudflare DNS, edge, workers, security.
- Datasette Publish and query structured data.
- DuckDB Local analytical database.
- GitHub Public code and project surface.
- Modal Serverless compute for AI and data jobs.
- Observable Public data notebooks.
- Railway Lightweight deployment for services.
- Replicate Model experimentation and API deployment.
- Supabase Fast app/data layer.
- Turso Edge SQLite database.
- Vercel Deployment surface for the site.
Projects
- Build a Large Language Model From Scratch Practical path from model theory to working code.
- DSPy Programming model for optimizing language-model pipelines.
- LlamaIndex Data framework for LLM applications.
- MemexLab Local-first markdown memex for strategic thinking.
- MemexLab Engine Agent skills, schemas, evals, and governance over a markdown vault.
- Open WebUI Local/open model interface.
- OpenBB Open-source investment research platform.
Curiosities
- Daring Fireball: Markdown The quiet format that won.
- guide.world Patrick Collison's experiment in practical knowledge navigation.
- OEIS A window into the strange depth of mathematical pattern.
- Virtual OS Museum Interface archaeology.