Blogs

Blogs I keep coming back to.

Ideas & essays

• Astral Codex Ten (Website) — Scott Alexander’s essays on AI, forecasting, medicine, and philosophy.
• Overcoming Bias (Website) — Robin Hanson on hidden motives, cultural drift, and contrarian social science.
• The Renaissance Mathematicus (Website) — a self-taught historian of science on the history of maths, astronomy, and navigation, cheerfully busting popular myths about al-Khwārizmī, Ibn al-Haytham, and Newton.
• Wait But Why (Website) — Tim Urban’s enormous, stick-figure-illustrated deep dives on AI, space, procrastination, and the human timeline, taking one huge question and patiently walking all the way to the bottom of it.
• Johnny’s Blog (Website) — a personal “some thoughts, some links” site of curated lists, film and book notes, recipes, travel guides, and opinions on everything from baseball to politics.
• Ribbonfarm (Website) — Venkatesh Rao’s “refactored perceptions” blog, retired in 2024 and kept online as an archive of 17 years and 1,000+ posts on organizational theory, economics, technology, and ritual; start with The Gervais Principle, which reads The Office as an anatomy of how companies actually distribute power.