List of Learning Materials

High Signal Knowledge

Blog posts, articles, videos, and essays that provide a dense chunk of information that I often think about.

1. Richard Hamming: You and Your Research
2. Advice for ambitious teenagers
3. Advice for ambitious 19 year olds - Sam Altman
4. Advice for ambitious Stanford students | by Stanford Guide | Stanford Guide
5. College advice for people who are exactly like me | benkuhn.net
6. Double your productivity without more work or stress
7. Searching for outliers | benkuhn.net
8. History of Philosophy
9. List of Deeptech Companies
10. List of Things Startups Did That Didn’t Scale
11. Starter Guide to SF for Founders
12. Dr. R. W. Hamming’s Advice on Great Work
13. The Transformer Model, Explained
14. Will We Ever Get Fusion Power?
15. A history of Nvidia’s Multiprocessors
16. The 1517 Anti-Pitch Playbook
17. How I Mastered Data Structures and Algorithms
18. Fifty Years Progress Map
19. Deep-dive on the transition to clean energy
20. Rebuild the Arsenal
21. From Silicon to Slime | Are.na Editorial
22. A new breed of biotech | Alex’s blog
23. A detailed 4-stage roadmap to learn AI/ML
24. Palmer Luckey, American Vulcan - Tablet Magazine
25. What You Should Know about Venture Capital - Google Slides
26. Living Carbon: Photosynthesis-Enhanced Trees
27. How the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Works - YouTube
28. How does Computer Memory Work? - YouTube

Newsletters

Consistent, high-quality, information-dense news.

1. Construction Physics | Brian Potter | Substack
2. The Chip Letter | Babbage | Substack
3. Wes Kao’s Newsletter | Substack
4. Not Boring | Packy McCormick | Substack
5. Materially Better | Tsung Xu | Substack
6. NLP Newsletter | elvis | Substack
7. Asimov Press
8. Freethink
9. LessWrong
10. Coldtakes
11. Wait But Why
12. Our World in Data
13. Newsletter | Sequoia Capital
14. Abundance Institute

Youtube Series

Leadership

1. “Are You Destined to Deal?” With Goldman Sachs MD Jim Donovan - YouTube
2. Leadership Lab: Writing Training - YouTube
3. Personality 101 - YouTube

Mathematics and Physics

1. Matter and Energy - YouTube
2. Stanford’s Introduction to Probability - YouTube
3. MIT OCW Probability + MIT OCW Problem Sets
4. Napkin Mathematics
5. StatQuest with Josh Starmer - YouTube
6. MIT OCW Linear Algebra

Programming

1. Functional Programming with TypeScript - YouTube
2. Intuitive Mathematics of Machine Learning (Paid textbook for $70)
3. Alpha for Learning GPUs
4. Introduction to Probability for Computing
5. Understanding Deep Learning
6. CS 189/289A: Introduction to Machine Learning

Venture Capital

1. The Investors’ Guide to the DOE
2. The Founder’s Guide to the DOE

Misc

1. Fundamentals of Mechanical Design - MIT
2. Financial Markets with Robert Shiller - YouTube
3. Artem Kirsanov - YouTube

Cool Designs

Websites I find cool through design or aesthetics.

1. Inflection VC
2. 8VC
3. Kyler Phillips
4. Unseen Studio

Fun Reads and Watches

1. The Neighbors’ Window - YouTube
2. A Comic on Mantis Shrimps