Quake Articles

Tyler Cowen has this idea of quake books — books that trigger an earthquake in how you view the world.

Most articles are fleeting, even good articles are a pale imitation of good books, but a great articles can change how you think about the world just as much as great books.

• What Do Your Ideas Want From You? — Judah

• Are you serious? — Visa

• Why You Should Start a Blog Right Now — Alexey Guzey

• On Being a Loser, or Should you Start a Blog? — Applied Divinity Studies

• Your Life is More Financialized Than You Think — Byrne Hobart

• The Trouble with Optionality — Mihir A. Desai

• Optionality is for Innumerate Cowards — Byrne Hobart

• Asymmetric Opportunities and the Cult of Optionality — Applied Divinity Studies

• Why aren’t there more Billionaires — Applied Divinity Studies

• Finance — Applied Divinity Studies

• The 30-Year Mortgage is an Intrinsically Toxic Product — Byrne Hobart

• Is Time Working for or Against You? — Applied Divinity Studies

• Staying Classy — Scott Alexander

• Book Review: Fussell On Class — Scott Alexander

• The 3-ladder system of social class in the U.S. — Michael O.Church

• The Phrase “No Evidence” Is A Red Flag For Bad Science Communication — Scott Alexander

• Book Review: How Asia Works — Scott Alexander

• The Magic of Small Databases — Tom Critchlow — Tom Critchlow

• How Levels.fyi scaled to millions of users with Google Sheets as a backend — Dushyant Sabharwal

• My Simplistic Theory of Left and Right — Bryan Caplan

• Don’t End The Week With Nothing — Patrick McKenzie

• Tech and Liberty — Ben Thompson

• Dust in the Light — Ben Thompson

• Housing Theory of Everything — John Myers & Ben Southwood & Sam Bowman

• The Story of VaccinateCA — Patrick McKenzie

• Why Procrastinators Procrastinate — Tim Urban

• S3 as an Eternal Service — Corey Quinn

• The Control Group Is Out Of Control — Scott Alexander

• I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup — Scott Alexander

• Slightly Skew Systems of Government — Scott Alexander

• A Thrive/Survive Theory of The Political Spectrum — Scott Alexander

• A Something Sort of Like Left-Libertarianism-Ist Manifesto — Scott Alexander

• The Categories Were Made for Man, Not Man for the Categories — Scott Alexander

• All Debates Are Bravery Debates — Scott Alexander

• Weak Men Are Superweapons — Scott Alexander

• Cardiologists and Chinese Robbers — Scott Alexander

• Weak Men Are Superweapons — Scott Alexander

• Cardiologists and Chinese Robbers — Scott Alexander

• The Revenue-Evil Curve: a different way to think about prioritizing public goods funding — Vitalik Buterin

• The Baked Data architectural pattern — Simon Willison

• Epistemic trespassing, or epistemic squatting? — Noah Smith

• Oracle Database 12.2: It is close to 25 million lines of C code — oraguy

• The Paradox of Ambition — David Perell

• The Look of Gentrification — Darrell Owens

• The End of the Beginning — Ben Thompson

• There’s no speed limit — Derek Sivers

• Eleven Magic Words — Yassine Meskhout

• Unemployment Part I – Quitting Won’t Save You — Applied Divinity Studies

• Unemployment Part 2 - How to Save Yourself — Applied Divinity Studies

• Why do people hate the media so much? — Tyler Cowen

• Cool URIs don’t change — Tim Berners-Lee

• Why TV News Is A Waste Of Human Effort: One Example Worth A Trillion Dollars — CGP Grey

• Digital gardening — Nicolas Bouliane

• Money and Confidence are Interchangeable — Mr. Money Mustache

• The Harried Leisure Class — Tyler Cowen

• The Grug Brained Developer: A layman’s guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brained — Grug

• How To Legally Own Another Person — Nassim Taleb

• Book Review: Seeing Like A State — Scott Alexander

• Book Review: Against The Grain — Scott Alexander

• The Economics of Pricelessness — Venkatesh Rao

• Luxury Beliefs are Status Symbols — Rob Henderson

• Why is Everything Liberal? — Richard Hanania

• Contra Hanania On Partisanship — Scott Alexander

• The 4-Hour Life — Paul Skallas

• Why were you late? — Visa

• The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius — Paul Graham

• All Debates Are Bravery Debates — Scott Alexander

• Sort By Controversial — Scott Alexander

• Dictator Book Club: Chavez — Scott Alexander

• Book Review: Legal Systems Very Different From Ours — Scott Alexander

• The Ideology Is Not The Movement — Scott Alexander

• The Amish Health Care System — Scott Alexander

• I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup — Scott Alexander

• Conflict Vs. Mistake — Scott Alexander

• Who By Very Slow Decay — Scott Alexander

• The Control Group Is Out Of Control — Scott Alexander

• Whither Tartaria? — Scott Alexander

• Ex-technology companies — Will Larson

• Coke Stevenson — Misha Saul

• This Page is Designed to Last — Jeff Huang