Advice for Young People + My Kids
For my kids
- Find a way to exercise your physical body that calls to you. This is as important a calling as your intellectual calling, but easier to ignore because there’s no money in it.
For young people
- If you work through one textbook in your field every year, that’s one more than almost everyone else in your field.
Resources
- School of life advice: https://handbookto.life/
- Patrick Collison’s advice: https://patrickcollison.com/advice
- Alexey Guzey, “What Should You Do With Your Life?”: https://guzey.com/personal/what-should-you-do-with-your-life/
- Things you’re allowed to do: https://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/things_youre_allowed_to_do/
- Kevin Kelly, 99 pieces of advice: https://kk.org/thetechnium/99-additional-bits-of-unsolicited-advice/
- How to find amazing internships (patio11): https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1344313750334046210?s=20
- Business advice (Kalzumeus): https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/
- Be strategic: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WVN7DZYWwDXOV-hwFbIYUvv3u17e_h3VS1QZZmIGNY0/edit
- Figure out what is going on: Frontiers / https://vienna.earth/page/andrew/frontier
- You should be working on hardware: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/08/25/you-should-be-working-on-hardware/
- Advice for high school: https://skunkledger.substack.com/p/escaping-high-school
- The story of Cole Summers: https://web.archive.org/web/20220823031953/https://www.deseret.com/2022/8/22/23309244/cole-summers-died-newcastle-utah-warren-buffett-charlie-munger-bari-weiss-unschooled
For Learning Anything
- Open Syllabus Galaxy: https://galaxy.opensyllabus.org/
Fellowship Programs
- Emergent Ventures: https://www.mercatus.org/emergent-ventures
- Progress Fellowship (high school): https://www.progressfellowship.org/
- Interact Fellowship (<24): https://joininteract.com/fellowship/
- Thiel Fellowship (<23): https://thielfellowship.org/
- Edith Labs: https://edithlabs.com/fellows
See also: Good Ideas, Open Problems, Frontiers