Timeless Content
Things I keep coming back to. Not the news — the pieces that still explain something years after they were written.
The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence ↗ Why exponential progress fools us, and how narrow AI becomes general: perception is harder than calculus, and $1,000 of hardware may match a brain by 2025. waitbutwhy.com · Tim Urban · 28 min 
My President Was Black ↗ Obama's rare biography let him genuinely trust white Americans — politically indispensable, and blinding him to Trump's appeal. theatlantic.com · Ta-Nehisi Coates · 28 min 
Most Human Wins ↗ AI commoditizes skills, not people: Einstein needed a mathematician friend for General Relativity, and now that help costs $200 a month. notboring.co · Packy McCormick · 14 min 
Taylor Swift, iOS, and the Access Economy: Why the Normal Distribution is Vanishing ↗ Abundance turns multifactor purchase decisions into binary ones, hollowing out the middle in phones, media, banking, cars, and salaries. alexdanco.com · 10 min 
How to Do Great Work ↗ A four-step recipe for ambitious work: find your aptitude, reach the frontier, notice the gaps, and stay upwind on curiosity rather than plans. paulgraham.com · 30 min