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“The Munger Operating System: How to Live a Life That Really 
Works” by @FarnamStreet
Rules to live and prosper by.
“The Day You Became a Better Writer” by Scott Adams
Even though I am a very good writer and I’ve been writing a 
lot since I was young, I still open up that blog post and put it 
in the background anytime I’m writing anything important. 
It’s that good. I use it as my basic template for how to write 
well. Think about the title, “The Day You Became a Better 
Writer.” It’s such a powerful title. He teaches you in one small 
blog post the importance of surprise, the importance of head-
lines, the importance of being brief and directed, not using 
some adjectives and adverbs, using active not the passive 
voice, etc. This one blog post right there will change your 
writing style forever if you put your ego down and absorb it 
properly. [6]
Want to become smarter in ten minutes? Absorb this: “Crony 
Beliefs” by Kevin Simler.

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Best post I’ve read on “Career Decisions” (in Silicon Valley/
tech) by @eladgil
Harari’s Sapiens in lecture/course form on YouTube.
Every business school should have a course on Aggregation 
Theory. Or learn it from the master himself, @benthompson, 
the best analyst in technology.
Great read. “Quantum physics is not ‘weird.’ You are weird.”—
“Think Like Reality” [Eliezer Yudkowsky]
Must-read. “Lazy Leadership” by @Awilkinson
No-holds-barred wisdom from a self-made man. Everything on 
@EdLatimore’s site is worth reading for overachievers: https://
edlatimore.com/
If you eat, invest, and think according to what the “news” 
advocates, you’ll end up nutritionally, financially, and 
morally bankrupt.
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Twitter accounts like:
@AmuseChimp (my all-time favorite Twitter account)
@mmay3r
@nntaleb

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Art De Vany (on Facebook)
Genius is here, just unevenly distributed. [4]
Must-read. (Twitter thread on “intellectual compounding” by 
@zaoyang). [11]
There are actually some really good graphic novels out there. 
If you’re open to the cartoony element of it, Transmetropoli-
tan [Warren Ellis], The Boys [Garth Ennis], Planetary [Warren 
Ellis], and The Sandman [Neil Gaiman]…some of these are, I 
think, among the finest works of art of our age. I also grew 
up as a boy reading comics, so I may be very biased toward 
those. [1]