For the pharma industry, Derek Lowe's blog In the Pipeline:
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#12I love reading Granola Shotgun, it's a blog focused on how to navigate the current macro trends in urban/suburban real estate design but from a very interesting and personal viewpoint.
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#13ribbonfarm - a longform blog devoted to unusual takes on both familiar and new themes. What we call “refactored perception.”
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/
meaningness - Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value. https://meaningness.com/
Whereas sites like SSC and LessWrong are rationalist, both of these suggestions are predominately post-rationalist, but perhaps you’re like I was – reading the rationalist sites because I didn’t know there were post-rationalist sites
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#14Wait but why is pretty neat... For example, [1] was quite nice. [1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2018/04/picking-career.html
This is really nice ... Thanks for sharing ...
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#15These are my two favorite blogs of Q4`19:
Pat Collison [1] (Co-founder, CEO Stripe) doesn't blog often, but is one of the most interesting and insightful people I have ever read
I don't know much about Alexey Guzey [2] yet, but he also has some very good posts (he writes more often and more long form, and is more similar to Gwern and SSC, in part because I think those two blogs have influenced him heavily)
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#16Longform: https://longform.org/
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#17Idlewords https://idlewords.com/ - Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard's blog. His essays are always worth reading
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#18Not tech-related, but if you're into city issues, I enjoy these:
Vital Vegas: https://vitalvegas.com
Chicago Architecture: https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org
Even though I don't live in either place, their cheeky writing styles can be a nice change from the pretense we see so often in blogs.
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#19Wait but why is pretty neat... For example, [1] was quite nice. [1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2018/04/picking-career.html
Thanks for the rabbit hole! Spend a few hours on this blog and his recommendations... and then theirs.
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#20https://beepb00p.xyz/ - Dmitrii writes a lot about quantified self and building personal knowledge bases.