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Digital artifacts

Over the past 22 years, I've spent way too much time on the internet. There are a few things I find myself going back to every so often.

• Old Stanford STVP/ETL Seminars: From Harvard to TheFacebook, The Path to Palantir
• Richard Hamming's "You and Your Research".
• Randy Pausch's last lecture formally titled "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams".
• Warren Buffett's 1972 Letter to See's Candies. A great perspective into the mind of a world-class investor-operator.
• Hunter S. Thompson's 1958 letter to his friend Hume Logan.
• Make Something Wonderful, a collection of Steve Jobs' letters, speeches, and photographs stitched together in chronological order.
• Every issue of Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog is indexed online for anyone to read.
• This list is obviously incomplete without some PG. Plenty of great essays to choose frombut the most practical has always been Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule.
• Scott Alexander's Meditations on Moloch.
• Patrick Collison's examples of ambitious projects executed on quickly.
• More to be added as I (re)discover things!