Ask HN: What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?

I was going through my bookmarks and found this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4000394

Mr. Money Mustache's account of how he retired at age 30: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/02/22/getting-rich-from-...

How to be more Productive, by Aaron Swartz - http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/productivity

http://www.chrissiewellington.org/blog/taking-the-plunge/ Because i didn't know what was to come next and whether she would be successful. A snippet from the first blogpost:

"Could I be as good as them, if not better? Had I fulfilled my potential, or did I have more to give? Had I pushed my mind and body to the limit? If not, what were those limits? What stars was I capable of grabbing? Without giving it a shot I would never know. I never want to look back and say ‘what if’."

Mostly not blog posts, but for the last years I tend to revisit the same resources over and over again for inspiration:

- "You and your research" by Hamming, and his video lectures which expand on topics in the original talk:

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30

- "On teaching mathematics" by V. I. Arnold:

http://pauli.uni-muenster.de/~munsteg/arnold.html

- "Undergraduation" by Paul Graham

http://www.paulgraham.com/college.html

- "Learn and relearn your field", and many others in the same category, by Terrence Tao

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/learn-and-relear...

- Steve Jobs Stanford commencement address:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

- All articles on programming by Peter Norvig:

http://www.norvig.com/