some advice
January 19, 2026
more examples appreciated . . .
- Close open loops - Oliver Habryka
- Advice for prospective startup founders - Max Hodak
- Abstract advice to researchers tackling the difficult core problems of AGI alignment - Tsvi Benson-Tilsen
- Advice (10-20yos) - Patrick Collison
- What Should You Do With Your Life? Directions and Advice - Alexey Guzey
- How To Do What You Love - Paul Graham
- How To Do Great Work - Paul Graham
- How I've run major projects by Ben Kuhn
- To listen well, get curious by Ben Kuhn
- Attention is your scarcest resource by Ben Kuhn
- Staring into the abyss as a core life skill by Ben Kuhn
- My favorite essays of life advice by Ben Kuhn
- How To Be Successful by Sam Altman
- Salary Negotiation by Patrick McKenzie
- For potential Ph.D. students by Ravi Vakil
- The "Three Things" Exercise for getting things out of talks by Ravi Vakil
- On writing by Terence Tao
- Advice for the Young Scientist by John Baez
- How to write mathematics badly by Jean-Pierre Serre
- Life is Short by Paul Graham
- You and Your Research by Richard Hamming
- An Opinionated Guide to ML Research by John Schulman
- Strong Inference by John R. Platt
- Cargo Cult Science by Richard Feynman
- Principles of Effective Research by Michael Nielsen
- Cormac McCarthy on Scientific Writing
- Research as a Stochastic Decision Process by Jacob Steinhardt
- Effective Startup Ideation by Benjamin Spector
- Tips for Empirical Alignment Research by Ethan Perez
- Nat Friedman's webpage. Ex "In many cases it's more accurate to model the world as 500 people than 8 billion"
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