Evergreen Knowledge
Blog posts, articles, videos, and essays that provide a dense chunk of information that I often think about.
- Richard Hamming: You and Your Research
- Advice for ambitious teenagers
- Advice for ambitious 19 year olds - Sam Altman
- Advice for ambitious Stanford students | by Stanford Guide | Stanford Guide
- College advice for people who are exactly like me | benkuhn.net
- Double your productivity without more work or stress
- Searching for outliers | benkuhn.net
- History of Philosophy
- List of Deeptech Companies
- List of Things Startups Did That Didn’t Scale
- Starter Guide to SF for Founders
- Dr. R. W. Hamming’s Advice on Great Work
- The Transformer Model, Explained
- Will We Ever Get Fusion Power?
- A history of Nvidia’s Multiprocessors
- The 1517 Anti-Pitch Playbook
- How I Mastered Data Structures and Algorithms
- Fifty Years Progress Map
- Deep-dive on the transition to clean energy
- Rebuild the Arsenal
- From Silicon to Slime | Are.na Editorial
- A new breed of biotech | Alex’s blog
- A detailed 4-stage roadmap to learn AI/ML
- Palmer Luckey, American Vulcan - Tablet Magazine
- What You Should Know about Venture Capital - Google Slides
- Living Carbon: Photosynthesis-Enhanced Trees
- How the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Works - YouTube
- How does Computer Memory Work? - YouTube
- The Investors’ Guide to the DOE
- The Founder’s Guide to the DOE
- Founder’s Handbook Notion Page
Newsletters
Consistent, high-quality, information-dense news.
- Construction Physics | Brian Potter | Substack
- The Chip Letter | Babbage | Substack
- Wes Kao’s Newsletter | Substack
- Not Boring | Packy McCormick | Substack
- Materially Better | Tsung Xu | Substack
- NLP Newsletter | elvis | Substack
- Asimov Press
- Freethink
- LessWrong
- Coldtakes
- Wait But Why
- Our World in Data
- Newsletter | Sequoia Capital
- Abundance Institute
Courses
Leadership
- “Are You Destined to Deal?” With Goldman Sachs MD Jim Donovan - YouTube
- Leadership Lab: Writing Training - YouTube
- Personality 101 - YouTube
Mathematics and Physics
- Matter and Energy - YouTube
- Stanford’s Introduction to Probability - YouTube
- MIT OCW Probability + MIT OCW Problem Sets
- Matrix Methods + MIT 18.065 Videos
- Napkin Mathematics
- StatQuest with Josh Starmer - YouTube
- Gilbert Strang lectures on Linear Algebra (MIT) - YouTube
- Information Theory, Pattern Recognition, and Neural Networks - YouTube
- 6.041 Probabilistic Systems Analysis and Applied Probability - YouTube
- Resources | Poker Theory and Analytics | Sloan School of Management | MIT OpenCourseWare
- The Complete Mathematics of Neural Networks and Deep Learning - YouTube
Programming
- Functional Programming with TypeScript - YouTube
- Intuitive Mathematics of Machine Learning (Paid textbook for $70)
- Stanford CS229: Machine Learning Full Course taught by Andrew Ng | Autumn 2018 - YouTube
- Alpha for Learning GPUs
- Introduction to Probability for Computing
- Understanding Deep Learning
- CS 189/289A: Introduction to Machine Learning
Misc
Misc Collections
Fun Reads
Great Design