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Brockman's account of figuring out the CTO role at Stripe after hiring Marc Hedlund as VP Engineering. A personal story about finding leverage when your role is

Sequel to define CTOdefinectogregbrockman.md, written two years later after cofounding OpenAI. Where the Stripe post was about discovering a role inside an exis

Source: Sphero Blog, STEM education article Raw file: raw/6 Examples of Algorithms In Everyday Life.md Contributors quoted: Laurie Guyon NY Model Schools Coordi

This timeline report is best read as a history of platform coevolution. Rather than telling the story of the App Store alone, it tracks how Apple and Google kep

Author: Barbara Oakley Published: 2014, Penguin Subtitle: How to Excel at Math and Science Even if You Flunked Algebra A practical guide to learning math and sc

Source: Khan Academy / LSAT prep series Raw file: raw/A quick guide to conditional logic Khan Academy.md A reference guide for translating 14 common prose phras

LessWrong post by Dylan Bowman June 29, 2026. Bowman, identifying as a reasonably strong generalist working in AI safety, argues that the field has a shortage o

Organizations create structures in which bad things can happen and no one is meaningfully accountable. Classic examples from Dan Davies' The Unaccountability Ma

Author: Justin Skycak Format: Working draft collection of essays/passages Domain: Skill development, learning science, career, motivation A collection of short,

LessWrong post critiquing most theories of impact for interpretability research in AI alignment. Referenced in the generalist reading list primarily for Richard

Source: https://github.com/multicaai/andrejkarpathyskills Local ingest snapshot: cloned on 20260521. Important files inspected: README.md, CLAUDE.md, CURSOR.md,

A twohour communicationskills masterclass transcript by Vinh Giang, structured around three teachable frameworks bookended by his own origin story and, in its s

Uncommon Core podcast ~October 2020. Hasu sits down with Light, an anonymous prop trader who moved from equities and options through poker into crypto, and Su Z

Author: James Clear Type: Book — behavior change and habit formation 2018, 320pp Habits are the compound interest of selfimprovement. Getting 1% better each day

Ben Kuhn argues that a particular form of impatience is a virtue. The good version is the habit of frequently asking “how could this thing take less calendar ti

This TED talk by Eli Pariser argues that the web's personalization systems do not just make information more convenient. They quietly narrow it. The talk's cent

This is the transcript of Brené Brown's RSA Animate video on the difference between empathy and sympathy. Brené draws on the work of nursing scholar Theresa Wis

This MDN primer is a beginnerfacing webliteracy page about the ordinary things people touch before they ever write code: browsers, web pages, websites, web serv

Harvard Business School talk 2013 by entities/HowardStevenson, SarofimRock Professor of Business Administration Emeritus. Delivered after Stevenson survived sud

Elizabeth Cox builds this essay around Dorothy Kenyon and the paranoia of McCarthyism to explain a simple but destructive mistake: treating a claim as credible

Elizabeth Cox uses the Virginia Military Institute admissions case to show how circular reasoning hides inside respectable language. Her target is not the carto

Elizabeth Cox uses the climatechange debate to explain why analogy can clarify a problem without proving anything about its cause. Her target is a familiar skep

Elizabeth Cox tells the story of childbed fever to show how easily people confuse correlation with causation, especially when they are staring at a vivid sympto

Elizabeth Cox uses the Missouri Compromise to challenge the comforting idea that the wisest position is usually somewhere in the middle. Her point is sharper th

Elizabeth Cox uses Eisenhower's domino theory about Vietnam to explain why a scary chain of consequences is not the same as an inevitable one. The point of the

A YouTube live session by Theo @theodevoid, LinkedIn: tmangowal, software engineer and alumni of Apple Developer Academy Indonesia Kohort 7 BSD/Tangerang campus

Internal Anthropic doc adapted publicly. Breaks down team leadership into four distinct responsibility categories, enabling clearer role design and staffing — e

This Crash Course episode builds a full argument that credibility on the modern web is usually discovered somewhere other than the page you're reading. Its meth

Source: Let's Talk Science letstalkscience.ca, 2020 Format: Educational explainer with framework diagrams and visual icons Scope: Full 3layer CT framework — 9 P

Source: Khan Academy / LSAT prep series Raw file: raw/Conditional reasoning and logical equivalence Khan Academy.md Identifies the four variations of a conditio

APA Speaking of Psychology podcast episode with John Kounios, professor of psychology at Drexel University. Kounios has spent two decades using brain imaging to

Author: Samantha Agoos Type: Practical guide / educational essay Critical thinking is presented as a disciplined method for making decisions that are more evide

Author: Fidenza Macro Type: Essay — for otherwiseprofitable traders who gave back meaningful gains Trading has no checkpoints. Unlike most professions, an entir

This is a blog post on remon.design offering practical advice for designers on developing the capacity to recognize and appreciate good visual design. The autho

TED2006 talk by Sir Ken Robinson, the mostwatched TED talk ever recorded. Robinson's argument is that creativity is not a rare gift unevenly distributed — it is

The common myth is that startups build something and if it's good, users magically appear. In reality, startups take off because the founders make them take off

This guide treats internet search as a layered method with three distinct phases: tool selection, query construction, and result evaluation. Its main claim is t

This instructional video frames figurative language as the point where words stop meaning only what they literally say and start carrying comparison, implicatio

Source: raw/first principles thinking how to see what everyone else misses ingested.md Core concept: concepts/firstprinciplesthinking This essay argues that mos

Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Fooled by Randomness is a practitionerphilosopher attack on the human tendency to mistake luck for skill, narrative for explanation, and

Author: William Poundstone Type: Book Hill and Wang, 2005 — narrative history of the Kelly criterion Raw: raw/Fortune&039s Formula ... libgen.li ingested.epub T

Source: YouTube lecture by Professor Jiang, delivered to his Beijing high school students, January 6, 2026. Introduction to a semesterlong course on game theory

Pursuit of Wonder video examining the prisoner's dilemma, Robert Axelrod's computer tournament, and the emergence of titfortat as the most effective strategy in

A 119page visual retrospective PDF compiled from entities/GCR's @GiganticRebirth / @GCRClassic public tweets, Discord and Telegram messages, position screenshot

A consolidated archive of 1,965 tweets and replies by GCR, scraped from his two accounts @GiganticRebirth, active through the FTX collapse; @GCRClassic, used be

An Arkham Intelligence profile of entities/GCR @GiganticRebirth, covering his full career from early 2021 through early 2025. Draws on onchain data ezekielx.eth

This TED talk argues against the lazy slogan that "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." Glenn Greenwald reframes privacy not as a shield for

This instructional chapter explains search engines as useful but nonneutral intermediaries. It gives the beginner version of how crawling, indexing, ranking, ad

Angela Duckworth's TED talk is an argument that longrun success depends on more than intelligence. Her candidate variable is grit: sustained passion and perseve

This short explainer draws the cleanest baseline distinction in the whole mindset literature: people with a growth mindset treat intelligence as developable, wh

This guide is built around one distinction: search engines retrieve, while AI assistants generate. The interface is starting to blur, but the underlying jobs ar

This is the transcript of Jonathan Juravich's TEDEd Educator Talk on teaching empathy as an actionable skill rather than a soft skill or catchphrase. Juravich,

This TEDEd explainer teaches the three basic learning modes that sit under much of modern machine learning: unsupervised learning, supervised learning, and rein

This short TEDEd explainer shows how falsehoods acquire the appearance of verification through repetition. Its central concept is circular reporting: one public

Interview transcript YouTube. Ethan Perez Anthropic, Mikita Balesni Apollo, and Henry Sleight discuss how to pick what to work on in alignment research. Highlig

Ben Kuhn's playbook for running large, highstakes projects at Anthropic, distilled from "crisis project management" work. Key claim: excellent project managemen

This MDN article takes the vague experience of "opening a website" and decomposes it into a small chain of technical events: client, server, DNS lookup, TCP/IP

Author: Dan Koe Type: Newsletter / essay Articulation isn't a talent — it's a learnable skill built through repeated writing and speaking. The prerequisite: dev

Cate Hall treats agency as a learnable skill "manifest determination to make things happen" rather than an innate trait. She has used it to compensate for aging

TED2012 talk by David Kelley, founder of IDEO and the Stanford d.school. Delivered partly from personal experience — including a cancer diagnosis that clarified

The web has turned writing into a conversation. Disagreeing is more motivating than agreeing, and the web makes it easy. The result is more disagreement, measur

Author: robotjames New Zealandbased discretionary trader, Substack Type: Longform essay — practical trading framework This essay is really a field guide to trad

TED Talk 2017 by entities/GuyWinch, psychologist and author. Built around clinical cases from 20+ years of practice. The central argument: when your heart is br

Source: Naval Ravikant, How to Get Rich — a ~3.5hour podcast/YouTube megaepisode that expands every tweet from his "How to Get Rich Without Getting Lucky" tweet

Rebecca Okamoto's TEDx talk on the four words that make people ramble or freeze — "Tell me about yourself" — and how a 20word introduction built around the list

This Excelsior OWL video presents the KIM chart as a lightweight structured notebook for vocabulary growth. KIM stands for Key Word, Information, and Memory Cue

This video pushes vocabulary work beyond bare definitions by treating each new word as the center of a small semantic network. A word web places the target word

Author: robotjames Type: Trading essay / practical market microstructure guide The essay extends the earlier edge material by arguing that small traders do not

This short Excelsior OWL video treats vocabulary growth as something that should leave physical study artifacts behind. Its recommendation is as simple as possi

This source pushes back against the easy slogan that failure automatically teaches. Its central claim is narrower and more useful: people often want to learn fr

Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren treat reading as an active art rather than a passive intake process. The book's central claim is that most people never

Julian Treasure's TED talk on why people stop listening and what speakers can change — both in what they say and how they say it. The argument moves from habits

Daniel Levitin's TED talk on why you are not at your best under stress — and why the fix is not willpower in the moment but systems and premortem thinking insta

This instructional video from the Excelsior University Online Writing Lab treats unfamiliar vocabulary as a reading problem that can often be solved before a di

This Excelsior OWL explainer approaches unfamiliar vocabulary from inside the word itself. Instead of searching the surrounding sentence for clues, it asks the

Dale Carnegie's 1936 classic — updated in 2022 by his daughter Donna Dale Carnegie — is built from fifteen years of lectures, thousands of adult students, and C

LessWrong reply by Anna Salamon to Lionhearted's post on the "Failure to Evaluate ReturnonTime" fallacy. The piece explains why even smart, numerate, goalorient

Author: Dan Koe Type: Newsletter essay The information environment is being poisoned by "fast content" optimized for engagement rather than thinking. Essays — t

Source: Khan Academy — LSAT prep article Format: Educational article with worked examples ~1000 words Scope: Conditional statements; sufficient vs. necessary co

Among highly screened technical talent, the biggest remaining bottleneck is often the ability to get leverage — work with a big impactperhour multiplier. Exampl

This source is a teaching document built to make one distinction stick: inductive reasoning moves from repeated observations toward a probable generalization, w

This Statista infographic frames the App Store less as a software catalog and more as an economic infrastructure layer. The image itself matters because it is n

Justin Skycak's Introduction to Algorithms and Machine Learning: from Sorting to Strategic Agents is a 424page exercisedriven curriculum built out of Math Acade

TEDxSurrey talk by Mollie Kaye, a single parent who worked from home and found herself sliding into isolation. Her experiment: dress in attentiongrabbing 1950s

Source: raw/Karpathy's CLAUDE.md hit 1 ingested.md This clipped thread argues that a projectroot instruction file can turn AI coding from repeated reexplanation

Paul Graham realized why politics and religion and sometimes programming produce uniquely useless discussions: they engage people's identities. Religion on foru

This instructional explainer presents inferencing as the act of drawing a conclusion from evidence, background knowledge, and reasoning. Its main teaching move

Holden Karnofsky describes his method for going from "never heard of this" to "detailed opinions with retained reasoning." The approach inverts the usual order:

This library guide presents Mike Caulfield's SIFT method as a fourstep routine for evaluating claims before accepting or sharing them. The guide opens with an i

Author: Unknown crypto/trading Substack Type: Shortform numbered lessons 27 distilled observations from a professional trader. Covers the nature of edge, team d

Author: Viktor Frankl Published: 1946 German: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager; postscript "Tragic Optimism" added later editions Format: EPUB Fran

Ashley Rizzotto's TEDx talk reframes the "perfect interview" — not as saying what employers want to hear, but as preparing before you arrive so you can advocate

Source: QCAA Digital Solutions Unit 1 Topic 1 — Computational Thinking YouTube Format: Lecture video with slides ~7.5 minutes; transcript + five slide screensho

Author: entities/charlesmunger edited by Peter D. Kaufman Published: 2005 expanded edition Format: Collection of talks, speeches, and biographical material A co

Author: Anonymous personal essay Type: Reflective essay The essay is about what it feels like to discover the global scoreboard early while being born far outsi

Source: freeCodeCamp — Learn Python v9, Review Python Basics module Type: Structured reference / cheat sheet A generalpurpose, dynamicallytyped, interpreted lan

Source: freeCodeCamp — Learn Python v9, Loops and Sequences module Companion to: sources/pythonbasicsreview Ordered, mutable, zerobased indexed. Can hold mixed

Source: raw/Ramping Your Coding Output with OpenAI's Codex ingested.md Author: Unknown, associated with PostFiat community Entity: entities/openaicodex This sou

David Epstein's argument is simple and contrarian: in a complex, fastchanging world, breadth beats early narrowness more often than the Tiger Woods story sugges

Paul Graham distills what makes a good startup founder to two words: relentlessly resourceful. The opposite quality is “hapless” — not merely unlucky, but passi

Author: Edwin Lefevre ghostwritten; subject is entities/JesseLivermore Annotated edition: Jon D. Markman Wiley, 2010 Original publication: 1923 serialized in Th

Author: Farnam Street fs.blog Type: Mental model explainer A thinking tool for examining longterm consequences. Moving past the immediate, obvious result of a d

There are levels of effort above ordinary "strong" effort. Tsuyoku naritai "I want to become stronger": always keep improving, doing better than your previous f

Source: Leopold Aschenbrenner Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead June 2024, ~165 pages Entity: entities/leopoldaschenbrenner Context: Written by a former O

Six Easy Pieces is a distillation of the most accessible chapters from Richard Feynman's The Feynman Lectures on Physics 1963, the legendary twoyear introductor

Author: Dan Koe Type: Newsletter essay AI is compounding faster than previous technological shifts. The gap between early adopters and waiters is no longer line

This Excelsior OWL video argues that every field develops its own working language, and that learning a subject means partly learning how that subject names the

This EFF guide is not mainly a tool list. It is a practical operating model for digital security built around threat modeling. Its repeated claim is that securi

Yanis Varoufakis wrote this 2018 book as a direct explanation of capitalism for young readers, but its ambition is larger than that description makes it sound.

Source: The Bowers Institute at The Tech thetech.org/bowersinstitute, 4page educator handout Format: Visual reference card with tables, facilitative tips, and c

Dino Martinez's TEDx talk: once your resume gets you the interview, become a storyteller — reach into your rolodex of experiences and show how they shaped who y

School forces you to write essays with a rigid structure: topic sentence, introductory paragraph, supporting paragraphs, conclusion. The conclusion might be tha

Source: Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness Primary entity: entities/navalravikant Format: Curated collection of Nav

This Apple retrospective tells the story of the App Store as both softwaredistribution infrastructure and economic engine. Its main claim is that the App Store

Source: Howard Marks — The Complete Collection Oaktree Capital client memos, 1990–2025 Entity: entities/howardmarks Format: 100+ individual memos written over 3

CFI's 2018 eBook 116 pages — a structured intro to capital markets for aspiring traders. Three parts: markets asset classes, equities, fixed income, money marke

Author: Anonymous Bloomberg Beta investor Type: Essay — career strategy in the AI era The AI era is creating a Kcurve divergence in tech careers: those who repo

Ionica Smeets's TEDx talk is a short primer on correlation vs causality: one of the most common reasoning mistakes is treating correlation as if it were already

Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson 2018, Oxford University Press. The central thesis: human beings are designed to act on hidden, largely selfish motives while simul

Author: Unknown crypto/trading Substack Type: Essay — quantitative + cultural analysis The central insight: a game with positive arithmetic expected value can s

Author: Edward O. Thorp Type: Handbook chapter Elsevier, 2006; conference paper 1997, revised 2005 Raw: raw/THE KELLY CRITERION IN BLACKJACK SPORTS BETTING,2006

Source: Khan Academy / LSAT prep series Raw file: raw/The Logic of If vs. Only if Khan Academy.md "If" and "only if" sound nearly identical but point in opposit

Mulham Trading. YouTube video, ~14 minutes. Channel: mulhamtrading. The core argument: most traders focus on entries, psychology, and indicators while ignoring

Source: Howard Marks The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor 2013 Entity: entities/howardmarks Related source: sources/

Peter Burke's 2020 cultural history Yale University Press follows five centuries of Western polymaths — people who made significant contributions to three or mo

Eduardo Briceno's TEDx talk argues that success is not mainly driven by effort, focus, or persistence in isolation. Those matter, but in his framing they are do

Carol Dweck's TED talk is a compact argument for one idea: students change when difficulty stops meaning "I am dumb" and starts meaning "I am learning." The tal

APA Monitor on Psychology article by Kirra Weir 2022, surveying where creativity research stands after a generation of neuroimaging. The article pulls together

This Crash Course episode treats the World Wide Web as a history rather than a definition. Starting from an idea in 1945 and ending with an ongoing governance d

Daniel Kahneman's 2011 synthesis of a career spent mapping how humans actually judge and choose — much of it with Amos Tversky. The book is organized around a f

Author: Erick Wilberding Type: Educational essay The essay argues that the Socratic method is one of the strongest tools for improving critical thought because

This is the transcript of Don Norman's 2003 TED talk exploring how design engages emotion at three levels — visceral, behavioral, and reflective — and why desig

Author: Unknown crypto/trading Substack; HFT background Type: Essay — personal + quantitative Time is better measured in events than in objective clocktime. Thi

TLDR: collected tips for research given to others/used self that sped things up and helped right mindset for empirical AI alignment scalable oversight, adv robu

Author: Harvard Business Review article Type: Management / problemsolving article Teams often rush into solution mode before they have defined the problem well

Mark Douglas 2000, Prentice Hall Press. The followup to The Disciplined Trader 1990. Douglas does not sell a trading system — he assumes you already have an edg

Source: EasyTech / learning.com Format: Educational article originally October 2022, updated January 2025 Scope: Conceptual primer on abstraction in CT — one se

Author: Edward O. Thorp Type: Essay — Wilmott Magazine columns May & September 2008, revised reprint Raw: raw/2008UnderstandingKellyNew ingested.pdf Thorp's cau

Source: interactiondesign.org — 5 Whyshttps://www.interactiondesign.org/literature/topics/5whys Clipped: 20260603 A definition page on the 5 Whys rootcause tech

Source: BBC Bitesize, KS3 Computer Science Revision Raw file: raw/What is abstraction Abstraction KS3 Computer Science Revision.md !abstractioncornerstone.png A

Source: BBC Bitesize, KS3 Computer Science Revision Raw file: raw/What is an algorithm Algorithms KS3 Computer Science Revision.md !algorithmbrain.png Algorithm

Source: BBC Bitesize, KS3 Computer Science Revision Raw file: raw/What is computational thinking Introduction to computational thinking KS3 Computer Science Rev

Source: BBC Bitesize — KS3 Computer Science Revision Format: Short educational explainer ~600 words, UK secondaryschool level Scope: Definition of decomposition

Source: BBC Bitesize, KS3 Computer Science Revision Raw file: raw/What is evaluation Evaluating solutions KS3 Computer Science Revision.md !evaluationdeveloper.

An IxDF explainer on iterative development in UX design, drawing on video commentary from Laura Klein, Alan Dix, Frank Spillers, William Hudson, Morgane Peng, a

Source: BBC Bitesize — KS3 Computer Science Revision Format: Short educational explainer ~600 words, UK secondaryschool level Scope: Definition, cats example, t

Paul Graham YC lists the qualities that matter most in startup founders, based on experience funding them. Intelligence matters only above a threshold; determin

TEDEd lesson Public Speaking 101, Episode 4 on how to prepare and deliver a talk — specifically the choice between scripted and unscripted approaches, and the m

This guide argues that generative AI failure is not one problem but at least two structurally different ones: hallucinations and bias. It is strongest when it s

Brian Little's TED talk: personality is more than fixed traits. We are like all others, like some others, and like no other — and what makes you individually yo

TEDEd animated lesson by AnnHelén Bay examining the structural mechanics of welfare traps — how programs designed to fight poverty can inadvertently lock people