Map of my internet

STEMlords

Evan Chen

evanchen.cc

Author of Infinite Napkin.

Guillermo Angeris

angeris.github.io

Convex optimisation proofs enjoyer. Not a real doctor.

Locklin on science

scottlocklin.wordpres.com

Crankerous old physics guy.

Bartosz Ciechanowski

ciechanow.ski

Crankerous old physics guy.

Academia

Steve Hsu

infoproc.blogspot.com

Genomics, statistics, physics.

Cosma Shalizi

bactra.org

Genomics, statistics, physics

Simon Dedeo

simondedeo.com

Professor at CMU, I think. Writer of helpful thigs like Information Theory for Intelligent People.

Brad Delong

delong.typepad.com

Econ prof at UC Berkeley, wrote a book.

Internet Culture

Aaron Z. Lewis

aaronzlewis.com

Smart guy.

Kneeling Bus

kneelingbus.net

Thinking about sociology amidst technology.

Cold Healing

coldhealing.substack.com

media criticism and diary entries, sometimes both.

Default Friend

default.blog

Keywords: internet history, internet culture, digital communities, millennial nostalgia, media ecology, fandom and fan studies.

Ye Olde Blogosphere

Venkatesh Rao

ribbonfarm.com

Lowkey a genius, if you ask me.

The Last Psychiatrist

thelastpsychiatrist.com

Abrasive, personal favourite. Wrote a really long book.

Hotel Concierge

hotelconcierge.tumblr.com

Also TLP, or so people say.

qntm

qntm.org

Business-of-tech theorist.

Eugene Wei

eugenewei.com

Business-of-tech theorist.

Scholar's Stage

scholars-stage.org

History, politics, culture, behavioral science, and strategic thought—often with a focus on East and Southeast Asian affairs.

Still Drinking

stilldrinking.org

Like the name says.

Idle Words

idlewords.com

Guy who made Pinboard, fairly cranky specimin.

Money Stuff

The Diff

www.thediff.co

Inflections in tech and finance.

Moontower

moontowermeta.com

«math, education, parenting, games, business, and occasionally hair bands🎸»

Kyla Scanlon

kylascanlon.com

Looking at the economy with a human-focused lens, often with video.

Matt Levine

bloomberg.com/money-stuff

Yeah, everyone reads him, and deservedly so.

"Do Things" people

Austin Kleon

austinkleon.com

Writer who draws.

Derek Sivers

sive.rs

He's been a lot of things, so he's earned the right to be a writer too.

Simon Sarris

simonsarris.com

Beautiful things appreciator/creator, neo-trad propoganda.

Karl Yang

karlyang.net

Beautiful things appreciator/creator, neo-trad propoganda.

James Somers

jsomers.net

Writer and programmer.

Rands in Repose

randsinrepose.com

Really fun writing, about whatever he likes.

Molly Mielke

mollymielke.com

Lots of enthusiasm.

Feral Free Agents

Tom Critchlow

tomcritchlow.com

Indie consultant. Bricolage enthusiast.

Micheal Curzi

michaelcurzi.com

Storyteller, vibe reel maker, he can think.

Toby Shorin

tobyshorin.com

Founder of Other Internet. Now a psychology nerd.

Visakan Veeraswamy

visakanv.com

Twitter power user, internet switchboard operator, do100things encourager.

Postrats

The Inexact Sciences

tis.so

Community blog (the community is a bunch of neo-postrats).

Yearly Cider

yearlycider.wordpress.com

OG Postrat.

Hazardous Times

hazardoustimes.substack.com

Prototypical modern postrat writing.

Crispy Chicken

crispychicken.cc

Friend, communication theorist.

Desystemise

desystemize.substack.com

Thinking about things, very carefully.

SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD

slimemoldtimemold.com

Questionable vercacity, entertaining writing. They once made many people eat potatoes.

Youngins'

JOODALOOP

joodaloop.com

Personal site designer, internet enjoyer, economics sometimes.

Anson Yu

ansonyu.me

Tech media, people-organiser at Socratica and elsewhere.

Riley Walz

walzr.com

Just a really cool dude.

Sarvasv Kulpati

sarvasvkulpati.com

Follows his curiosity.

Jacky Zhao

jzhao.xyz

Agentic and communcal technology for the web, gardener (digital).

Yihui Hu

yihuihu.com

Young project-maker with excellent design sense.

Literacy Enjoyers

Justin Duke

arcana.computer

Mailman at Buttondown, blogging enjoyer.

Nadia Eghbal

nadia.xyz

Internet thinker.

Robin Sloan

robinsloan.com

Author.

Robin Rendle

robinrendle.com

Author and designer.

Craig Mod

craigmod.com

Very cool guy.

The Designer's Designers

kēlín carolyn zhang

carolynzhang.com

making software with a soul.

Paco Coursey

paco.me

Elegant details, tasteful interactions, minimalism enjoyer.

Kevin Chen

kevinnchen.com

systems, tool-making, infrastructure, visibility, gathering, gardening, printed matter, websites, computer graphics, and open source.

Matthew Butterick

matthewbutterick.com

Lawyer and hobbyist programmer, wrote some typography and programming books.

Azlen

azlen.me

Interfaces, cyberspace, cities, and the like.

Eric Zhang

ekzhang.com

Scarily impressive polymath, thoughtful designer.

Murat Ayfer

muratayfer.com

Designer, programmer, sysadmin, generative artist, etc, etc.

Simon Collison

colly.com

Immaculate details, web veteran.

Frank Chimero

frankchimero.com

Writer, designer, essayist, warm and slow.

Rasmus Anderson

rsms.me

Design legend, creator of Inter, wokring on Playbit.

Cristóbal Sciutto Rodríguez.

cristobal.space

Designer, of forms practical and convival.

Chia Amisola

chia.design

One if the best.

Maggie Appleton

maggieappleton.com

Digital gardening, excellent essays, interfaces and more.

Udara Jay

udara.io

Interested in a little bit of everything, but mostly– technology, genetics and startups.

Alexander Wang

dragonman225.js.org

Tool-maker.

Web gang

Neal (fun)

neal.fun

Maker of excellent mini-games.

Brendan Schlagel

brendanschlagel.com

writer, media-maker, building hyperlink.academy.

Matt Webb

interconnected.org

Speculations about the future of technology, design, and society.

Jim Nielsen

jim-nielsen.com

Cares about the web, and blogging.

Manual Moreale

manuelmoreale.com

Writes, designs minimal websites, is a little sad.

Steve Krouse

stevekrouse.com

Founder, val.town. Cares about computers and education.

Tom Macwright

macwright.com

Cares about the web, also works at val.town.

Rauno Freiberg

rauno.me

Interface prototyper, thinking about knowledge representation and creative tools.

Linus Lee

thesephist.com

Interface prototyper, thinking about knowledge representation and creative tools.

Maya

maya.land

Web crank.

Spencer Chang

spencerchang.me

Wholesome mf.

Software Enjoyers

Tyler Angert

tyler.cafe

Guy who softwares.

Sarah Lim

slim.computer

She is a computer scientist.

Alexander Obenauer

alexanderobenauer.com

Working on a new OS, based on "items".

Andy Matuschak

andymatuschak.org

Interfaces for thinking, tools for memory.

Katherine Yang

kayserifserif.place

Guy who softwares.

Geoffrey Litt

geoffreylitt.com

Guy who softwares.

Bret Victor

worrydream.com

Legendary dynamic media researcher.

Omar Rizwan

omar.website

Computer appreciator and explorer.

Todepond

todepond.com

Make slightly-surreal videos about their coding experiments.

Dorian Taylor

doriantaylor.com

Hmmm.

Eugene Kudashev

eugenekudashev.com

Eugene Kudashev (b. 1989, Leningrad, Russia) makes web art, writes serious essays and silly one-liners, and tries to make sense of the ever-present absurdity of today.

Pablo Meier

morepablo.com

computer-ey things, personal things.

Max Krieger

a9.io

Interaction design and implementation.

Tom Murphy VII

tom7.org

Programming language + font nerd with the coolest Youtube channel.

Collectives

Ink & Switch

inkandswitch.com

Elegant details, tasteful interactions, minimalism enjoyer.

Metalabel

metalabel.com

Serial releasers of...stuff. Like the Collaboration Cookbook.

100 Rabbits

100r.co

Elegant details, tasteful interactions, minimalism enjoyer.

Good Enough

goodenough.us

Elegant details, tasteful interactions, minimalism enjoyer.

Tech Bros

Aaron Swartz

www.aaronsw.com

RIP.

Kwokchain

kwokchain.com

Things that shape industries, often tech.

Alexey Guzey

guzey.com

Terrible epistemics, lots of enthusiasm and opinions.

Nick Arner

nickarner.com

Cool computer guy (I helped make his site). Ex-bass player, impressive angel investor.

Robert Heaton

robertheaton.com

Dad who can write, guy who can program.

Patrick McKenzie

kalzumeus.com

On money and systems thereof, programmer self-harm prevention.

Stratchery

stratchery.com

On the business, strategy, and impact of technology.

Dan Luu

danluu.com

He just writes and thinks pretty well tbh.

Gwern

gwern.net

Internet besserwisser.

Ben Kuhn

benkuhn.net

Guy.

Gordon Brander

gordonbrander.com

Software philosophy-isms, working on Subconscious.

Evan Miller

evanmiller.org

Statistics, math opinions, hacker.

Substack club

Experimental History

experimentalhistory.substack.com

Guy who does psychology fairly well.

Bits of Wonder

honest-broker.com

feeling things and talking about them, sometimes simultaneously.

The Honest Broker

honest-broker.com

A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia.

Strange Loop Canon

strangeloopcanon.com

Rohit writes well, thinks better.

The Intrinsic Perspective

theintrinsicperspective.com

Science and humanities fan. Neuroscience + novelist.

Effective Epistemics (???)

David Maciver

drmaciver.com

Careful thinking, sharp writing.

Dan Wang

danwang.co

Excellent, excellent writer. Semiconductors and East Asia.

Nintil

nintil.com

Science, bio these days.

Cedric Chin

commoncog.com

Operations, the study of expertise.

Samstack

samstack.io

social science, the future, and why people behave in the way that they do.

Slightly Insane

Roger's Bacon

secretorum.life

Heretic, sometimes.

Numb at the Lodge

samkriss.substack.com

A writer and your enemy.

sam[ ]zdat

samzdat.com

The reader is expected to quarrel with much that is said…

Egg Report

eggreport.substack.com

The reader is expected to quarrel with much that is said…

MYTHICAL STRENGTH

mythicalstrength.blogspot.com

Powerlifter who writes screeds.

Zero HP Lovecraft

zerohplovecraft.substack.com

Imperfect (racist) writer of dystopian sci-fi.

Lesswrong mafia

Scott Alexander

astralcodexten.substack.com

Writes essays, some say too many.

Don't Worry About the Vase

thezvi.wordpress.com

Written by Zvi, a game theory and incentives hobbyist.

niplav

niplav.github.io

Hmmm.

Putanumonit

putanumonit.com

Psychology, statistics, sex, rationality.

Melting Asphalt

meltingasphalt.com

Psych-something, socio-something, econ-something.

Applied Divinity Studies

applieddivinitystudies.com

Data for qualitative questions, economic lenses, opinionated claims.

Argmin Gravitas

gleech.org

He can think, and read.

Do drugs and/or philosophy and/or be happy

Qualia Computing

qualiacomputing.com

Qualia, and computers.

Sasha Chapin

sashachapin.substack.com

Compulsive over-sharer.

Meaningness

meaningness.com/

By David Chapman, a living book about systems of meaning. Buddhism too?