A list of blogs, websites, and podcasts that I enjoy from time to time or that provided useful advice to me in the past. Feel free to check them out if you have not already:
Blogs and websites
Tech / management / thinking
- Ben Kuhn’s blog - A blog about programming, engineering management, and books reviews.
- Irrational Exuberance - A blog where Will Larson shares his experience on engineering management and strategy.
- Farnam Street - A collection of mental models.
- Bytepawn - Data science methods and management focused blog.
- Ian Whitestone’s blog - Ian blogs on data science and data engineering topics.
- Ian Ozsvald’s page - Ian Ozsvald is one of the organisers of the PyData conferences and a coach for data scientists.
- Simon Willison’s blog - Simon Willison’s notes and TILs
Finance
- Money Stuff - Matt Levine has a great way of breaking down the inner workings of financial products and institutions using simple words and he is doing it with a great sense of very dry humour.
- Monevator - A UK focused blog on personal investing and financial independence.
- Rent vs. Buy Calculator - A free calculator that can aid with the rent vs. buy decision
- Capital Gains - A newsletter archive about finance, economics, and corporate strategy.
Research / PhD advice
- Gregory Gundersen’s blog - great collection of notes on math, ML, probability that Gregory uses to explain a topic to himself.
- Julian Schrittwieser’s blog - Julian is a software engineer at Deep Mind and tasks about a range of interesting research topics.
- Matt Might’s blog - Awesome PhD advice from Matt Might. Especially his ‘The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.’ really helped me put my research into perspective.
Travel
- seat61.com - if you want to travel Europe on the train this blog has all the information you could ever want.
Newspaper
- Financial Times Weekend edition
Podcasts
Every episode:
- The Rational Reminder Podcast
- The Riff with Bryne Hobart and Erik Torenberg
- Money Stuff: The Podcast
- This is Politics
Some episodes:
- BBC In Our Time
- Dwarkesh Podcast
- Conversations with Tyler
- Lex Friedman Podcast
- Philosophize This
- Stuff You Should Know
- The Knowledge Project
- FT News Briefing
- Acquired