FRIENDS
Derek Sivers ↗
A reminder that a personal website can just contain everything you care about.
Maggie Appleton ↗
Visual essays plus digital gardens. The patron saint of this rebuild.
Gwern ↗
One of the best examples of turning a personal site into an evolving research environment.
Paul Graham ↗
Essays I return to. The startup canon.
Kevin Simler ↗
Long essays on people and how they work.
Jose Luis Ricon ↗
Notes on science, progress, and civilization.
Scott Aaronson ↗
Quantum computing and complexity, with jokes.
Tim Urban ↗
Stick-figure explainers for enormous ideas.
Robin Hanson ↗
Think disagreeable thoughts about everything.
David Chapman ↗
Meaning, fluidity, and better ways of thinking.
Marginal Revolution ↗
Economics every day, from Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok.
qntm ↗
Fiction, essays, and code from the author of There Is No Antimemetics Division.
Venkatesh Rao ↗
Ribbonfarm: long-form thinking on technology, organizations, and modernity.
Michael Nielsen ↗
Essays on science, AI, and how discovery works.
Simon Willison ↗
Notes on LLMs, Datasette, and practical AI engineering.
Make your own — this page follows the /friends idea: link the people you actually know from your own corner of the internet. Start one at slashfriends.org, and put me on yours.