To my delight, the quality and variety of online writing seems to have improved a lot since the pandemic; I hope the trend continues. I’m a big fan of RSS and use Feebin to keep up with my favorite sites. These are some of my favorites.

• Marginal Revolution (anyone who finds Tyler interesting, I find interesting)
• The Browser (really great long-form aggregator)
• Fantastic Anachronism
• Slate Star Codex & Astral Codex Ten
• Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf
• Scott Sumner & Archive
• Nabeel S. Quershi
• Applied Divinity Studies
• Gavin Leech
• Misha Saul
• Joseph Heath
• patio11
• Sam Kriss
• Ted Gioia
• Riva Tez
• Steve Hsu
• Cremieux Recueil
• Trung Phan
• Holden Karnofsky
• Tanner Greer
• Samuel Hammond
• Noah Smith
• Erik Hoel
• N.S. Lyons
• Zvi Mowshowitz
• Eli Dourado
• Roger’s Bacon
• Frederik Gieschen
• Matt Levine
• Byrne Hobart
• Dan Wang
• Alexey Guzey
• Matt Lakeman
• Daniel Frank

All-time great posts:

• Joseph Heath, “Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks” (2017)
• Time Magazine, “Lee Kuan Yew Reflects” (2005)
• Riva Tez, “The Grandest Vision for Humanity” (2014)
• Jose Luis Ricon on the distinction between public and private organizations (2018)
• C.S. Lewis, “The Inner Ring” (1944)
• Nick Land, “Hell-Baked” (2015)
• Ben Kuhn, “Staring into the abyss as a core life skill” (2022)
• Venkatesh Rao, “A Big Little Idea Called Legibility” (2010)
• David Sheff, “Playboy Interview: Steven Jobs” (1985)
• Alica Maz, “You Can Just Do Stuff” (2023)
• Richard Hamming, “You and Your Research” (1986)
• Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook” (1968)
• Joan Didion, “On Self-Respect” (1961)
• Ross Douthat, “‘Watership Down’ and the Crisis of Liberalism” (2019) (Archive link)
• Tyler Cowen, “Deconstructing cultural codes” (2018)
• Tyler Cowen, “My philosophy of interviewing” (2017)
• Tyler Cowen, “The high-return activity of raising others’ aspirations” (2018)
• Mills Baker, “The Charisma of Leaders” (2013)
• u/Sizzle50, “American Cultural Dominance Abroad” (2019)
• Tanner Greer, “Questing for Transcendence” (2019)
• Sam Altman, “The days are long but the decades are short” (2014)
• Alexey Guzey, “lifehacks” (2023)
• Daniel F. Chambliss, “The Mundanity of Excellence” (1989)
• Zvi Mowshowitz, “Slack” (2017)
• Bryan Caplan, “Against Human Weakness” (2009)
• Leopold Aschenbrenner, “Burkean Longtermism” (2021)
• Scott Sumner, “What do we mean by meaning?” (2018)
• James Somers, “Speed matters” (2015)
• James Somers, “The best general advice on earth” (2012)
• Paul Graham, “What Charisma Is” (2004)
• Scott Alexander, “More Confounders” (2019)
• Scott Alexander, “1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled” (2019)
• Scott Alexander Reviews Whyte’s Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times (2020)
• Scott Alexander, “Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism” (2014)
• Scott Alexander, “How the West Was Won” (2016)
• Scott Alexander, “The Lottery of Fascinations” (2013)
• Tyler Hogge, “A few thoughts on intensity” (2024)
• Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Sheryl Sandberg, Marc Andreessen, and others discuss millennials and predictions for 2030