Assorted Links

A series of curated reading lists I posted on old.ajr.fyi in spring 2022 — short collections of articles, papers, and threads I found worth sharing.


March 1, 2022

  1. A new list of industrial startups that are growing and hiring. Recommended.
  2. Exactly how a CEO Founder spends the first 2 years of a startup
  3. Positive sum El Salvadoran Immigrant Community Grant Programs
  4. Host more dinner parties
  5. The successful aftermath of vibecamp. Consider hosting more social events.

March 15, 2022

  1. Some reasons for investment in alternative education and here’s some more
  2. A new course to train new political leaders for the future of New York City
  3. The state of climate tech. It’s a good time to start working on industrial tech, people!
  4. Immigration benefits industrial progress and the importance of skilled immigration from our foreign adversaries

March 22, 2022

  1. A defense of the case for more aristocratic tutoring
  2. One of very few attempts to scale aristocratic tutoring
  3. Patio11’s tips on how to build a consultancy
  4. The case for critiquing EA and PS (because they’re successful, and they listen)

March 28, 2022

  1. Policy of Progress does not poll well with American voters
  2. A list of essays related to American Dynamism
  3. Sarah Constantin’s new blog details “Underrated Opportunities in Science, Technology, and Society”
  4. The Housing Theory of Everything. This isn’t new, but it’s worth re-iterating the importance of more housing.

April 1, 2022

  1. A new fellowship for ambitious high schoolers
  2. Building a toaster from Scratch — starting with only Stone Age technology
  3. The importance of global markets — price of wheat futures seamlessly signal farmers to plant more, without any top down intervention necessary.
  4. Wearable Hormone Sensors are on the horizon

April 4, 2022

  1. How should we be helping the 44% of depressed teens?
  2. Spaced repetition directly from the browser and an example of using it to learn quantum computing
  3. Aaron Mayer pledges to donate all income above 70k, forever
  4. STEM Immigration is Critical to American National Security. Recommended.
  5. The eternal Geeks, Mops, Sociopaths cycle strikes again, in twitter “in-group”