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Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?
Obviously, outside of Hacker News.
- sailorganymede 5y agoAre.na has occasional long reads
- 1680168l 5y agoSermons.
- mtmail 5y agoI quite enjoy https://restofworld.org/ https://restofworld.org/ https://www.instapaper.com/daily https://www.instapaper.com/daily (contains some automated spamming, flooding submissions to trick the popularity scoring I guess)
- riidom 5y agoCame here to mention restofworld as well. I recently discovered https://expmag.com https://expmag.com but can't really tell yet, since it's too fresh in my bookmarks. I enjoyed the article about clothes in landfills though (mentioned a while ago on HN).
- gorbachev 5y agoI've been subscribing to http://longreads.com/ http://longreads.com/ for a while.
- NaOH 5y agoThe Sunday Long Read has been a great resource for many years now. https://sundaylongread.com https://sundaylongread.com
- randycupertino 5y ago/r/TrueReddit and /r/FoodforThought subreddits are both pretty interesting and tend to have insightful long-form articles.
- owensmp 5y agoMore recent but solid compilation of writing - https://www.fairobserver.com/ https://www.fairobserver.com/
- atulsin 5y agoThanks for the kind words! Here is my long piece on Vladimir Putin's long game that I co-authored with retired CIA officer Glenn Carle: https://www.fairobserver.com/politics/making-sense-of-vladimir-putins-long-game/ https://www.fairobserver.com/politics/making-sense-of-vladim...
- pkcsecurity 5y agoThe New Yorker is great too, if you’re willing to pay a few bucks a month.
- geoblack 5y agoOften free in eform via your local public library.
- Zmajche 5y agohttps://waitbutwhy.com/ https://waitbutwhy.com/
- StoneFox 5y agolove love love waitbutwhy, i wish more people knew about it.
- frickinLasers 5y agoI wish his latest post wasn't from last April.
- guiambros 5y agoLikewise; love Tim Urban. Spent way too much time reading his work. My favorites are "Religion for the Nonreligious" [1] (which actually has little to do with religion, despite the title), and "The Tail End" [2]. Each one gave me new ways of looking at life and relationships, in ways that I haven't thought before. I started "The Story of Us" [3], but haven't gone through all. I think it crossed the threshold of long-blog-post and became almost a book-in-a-blog. [1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious... [2] https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html [3] https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html
- nscalf 5y agoI've been liking Packy's writing over at Not Boring (https://www.notboring.co/ https://www.notboring.co/).
- wnolens 5y agoNon-tech and non-news (and not even that long), but I have to plug https://www.themarginalian.org/ https://www.themarginalian.org/ (previously called "brain pickings"). The author reads voraciously and follows common threads across many works, compiling her thoughts into articles which often contain beautiful prose in their own right. I often pickup book recs from here that get me into reading about art, poetry, love, spirituality, and more, which I never would otherwise.
- sooheon 5y agoIn a similar vein is Commonplace by Cedric Chin. Think a Stratechery that analyzes individuals, not corporations. Has great summaries and read/don't read recommendations on book. One of the few blogs I didn't end up unsubscribing from in annoyance. https://commoncog.com/blog/ https://commoncog.com/blog/
- neilpanchal 5y agoCabinet Magazine: https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/ https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/
- lvs 5y agoHave you heard of books?
- akprasad 5y agoI agree with the spirit of this. If you want serious long-form substance that is the product of months or years of careful effort, it's hard to beat a book. Usually the best long-form content I've found online (e.g. [1]) is itself just an excerpt. [1]: https://lithub.com/aneurysm/ https://lithub.com/aneurysm/ I've also become a fan of buying ebooks through the Apple Books app on my phone, if you extend the definition of "online" a bit.
- science4sail 5y agoMany dead-tree-book libraries also have ebook lending programs. If that's not an option, then there's also Project Gutenberg[0] and the Internet Archive's Open Library [1]. [0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ https://www.gutenberg.org/ [1] https://openlibrary.org/ https://openlibrary.org/
- gyulai 5y agoProject Gutenberg lost favour with me when they basically said "U.S. Copyright is the only copyright law that matters on the internet, so screw you Germany" and geoblocked the entire country. This must have felt like such a slap in the face to Germans who ever donated time or money to project Gutenberg. Personally, I had never done that, so I had the luxury of being able to just turn away in bewilderment. I do give money to archive.org though, and sincerely hope they will never pull crap like that.
- wrycoder 5y agoLibby app for connection via your library card.
- zwog 5y agoI like aeon.co - a collection of essays, thinkpieces and articles about a wide range of topics
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- adonovan 5y agoLondon Review of Books. It’s a print magazine mirrored on its website, but do yourself a favor and leave your phone beyond reach while trying to read long-form. The internet has ruined us all.
- mixedmath 5y agoThe website it at: https://www.lrb.co.uk/ https://www.lrb.co.uk/ I see it's published twice a month. I also see that it has an RSS feed that doesn't seem to have an obvious link on the front page: https://lrb.co.uk/feeds/rss https://lrb.co.uk/feeds/rss
- wrycoder 5y agoClaremont Review of Books for a contrasting view.
- stevesimmons 5y agoLRB is great. I've subscribed for years. It's more than book reviews, also social and political commentary. And often the book reviews will be nominally about 3-4 related books, and give really interesting in-depth takes on historical events, social movements, etc.
- valyagolev 5y agohttps://www.aldaily.com/ https://www.aldaily.com/ Arts&Letters daily was a curated collection of links that introduced many to highbrow internet longform. Not sure how it does those days
- hersko 5y agoThe Joe Rogan podcast. Listening to long-form, multi-hour conversation is so refreshing compared to what traditional news shows have become.
- walrus01 5y ago
- kspacewalk2 5y agoMost of his guests are nothing like that. His interview with Brian Cox (the physicist) is one of my personal favourites, to give one of many examples. Sure, sometimes he's got relatively kooky people on, but often it's people whose ideas are unusual but still rationally debatable. The downside of stranding outside your own echo chamber is that often it'll be a waste of time. But the upside is that occasionally it'll change your mind, and that's certainly what I'm after.
- burner556 5y agoWell he’s the most popular media source in the country now. I think your opinion is a minority one. I find his content entertaining, engaging, and well worth it. I don’t find it any of the things that you claim it is. He’s probably anti vaccine, people are entitled to their opinions.
- walrus01 5y ago> Most popular media source in the country right now [citation needed]
- akprasad 5y agoI was curious and gave it a search. It's hardly a high quality source, but: https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-ufc-news-joe-rogan-seemingly-millions-listeners-tucker-carlson-fox-news-cnn https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-ufc-news-joe-rogan-seem... Per the chart, Rogan has 11m viewers per episode compared to 3.24m for Tucker Carlson Tonight, which was the highest-viewed primetime cable news show as of 2020 per [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson_Tonight#Ratings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson_Tonight#Ratings
- walrus01 5y agoMetafilter: https://www.metafilter.com/ https://www.metafilter.com/
- jsiaajdsdaa 5y agoI think I'm fundamentally opposed to long form content. I can learn a lot more from one line of code than 10 pages of theory.
- 650 5y agohttps://astralcodexten.substack.com/ https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ formerly known as Slate Star Codex prior to doxxing by Cade Metz at the New York Times.
- yesenadam 5y agoBooks are available free at: https://archive.org/ https://archive.org/ https://libgen.rs/ https://libgen.rs/ Archive.org tends to have out-of-copyright stuff, LibGen newer stuff, but stuff in between (mid to late 20th C) you can often get by "borrowing" the ebook from archive.org for a short time (free, requires sign-up.) LibGen also has the vast majority of scientific papers/journal articles I look for, no matter how old or obscure.
- wolverine876 5y ago> Archive.org tends to have out-of-copyright stuff Their lending library has lots and lots of in-copyright stuff. With a free account (takes minutes to setup), you can borrow them (read in an online browser, or via DRM-controlled PDF) for an hour or for two weeks. My impression is that they limit simultaneous borrowers to the number of physical copies the Archive possesses. If it sounds too good to be true, give it a try. It's only drawback is a poor search engine (just use a general one like DuckDuckGo and add "site:archive.org" to your search)
- dredmorbius 5y agoI'm a fan of the Samizdat sources (you could add ZLibrary as well). Archive.org's holdings are truly amazing for older works. Newer, in-copyright works can be checked out, though I find the e-reader software, which works well on desktop, is poorly-suited to tablets. Other sources of legal works include: - Project Gutenberg: https://gutenberg.org/ https://gutenberg.org/ (60k books) - Standard Ebooks: very-well formatted quality ebook, largely public domain https://standardebooks.org/ https://standardebooks.org/ - Wikisource: https://en.wikisource.org/ https://en.wikisource.org/ Public-domain works, downloadable in ePub and other formats. There are numerous other smaller collections focusing on specific topics which may also be useful. Searching for "filetype:pdf", "filetype:epub", or "filetype:djvu" may find ebook formats elsewhere.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoI have over 400 books on my iPad. A significant number are various tech tomes, but I also like to read “escapist junk”; mostly fantasy.
- goatkey 5y agoThe Browser: https://thebrowser.com/ https://thebrowser.com/ Arts and Letters Daily: https://www.aldaily.com/ https://www.aldaily.com/ Lit mags: LRB, NYRB, Paris Review, McSweeneys Lit-adjacent mags: Harpers, Laphams Quarterly I usually follow a lot of these via RSS, and subscribe to some. Beyond that, several newsletters. Astral códex ten (as already mentioned) and tomas pueyo’s uncharted territories come to mind. The Browser is easily the best reading money I’ve spent in a long time. $5/mo and it finds such good articles.
- LeoPanthera 5y agoI subscribe to Apple News, which includes access to a large number of magazines, and I have an electronic subscription to a couple of newspapers. My morning routine is reading from these sources on my iPad... and a coffee. :)
- projektfu 5y agoStill the same old places mostly. Harper's. Rolling Stone. NY Review of Books. Lots of podcasts, especially ones that go through a long story in several episodes, for example "Deep Cover" and "Buried Truths". Books. I'm getting tired of long-form content that wanders around the point. That's just taking a small subject and adding words. I like long form when the subject demands it and its complexity makes the long form useful.
- geoblack 5y agoThe only thing I resent about moving to ebooks from the library is time I wasted on second rate content from the internet. I have seven library cards and I can read almost anything for free. If none have what I want, they will often order it and notify me when it arrives. All from my sweet Gesture chair. Also Kanopy has wonderful classes for free.
- ravenstine 5y agoI've slowly come to the same conclusion, though partially in the sense of audiobooks. When someone makes a book, even if it's a relatively short one, that usually means they know enough about the subject and have something valuable enough to say, regardless of whether one agrees with or enjoys the content for its entertainment value. Although there can be good long-ish form content on the internet, there's simply too much incentive to spew loosely connected ideas that aren't fully formed and serve mostly to get attention. And a lot of it really is just chum to get clicks, however nicely it's presented. The way I see it, written content on the internet went the way of TED talks. I remember a time when TED was popular, at least in my social class, and now it's pretty widely mocked not only for being vapid but by lowering the barrier to entry via TEDx. Medium is a perfect example of this phenomenon.
- geoblack 5y agoA lot of the Great Courses are on Kanopy. The Archeology is fantastic.
- pmoriarty 5y agoThe Atlantic has some of the highest quality long-form content I've ever read in my life. It's not all excellent, but quite often it is. Highly recommended.
- paisawalla 5y agoMy pipeline of interesting Twitter users/threads to Substack mailing lists has served me well. I recently discovered Google Assistant's "read this article aloud" functionality and it's been amazing to help cut down the backlog of unread newsletter emails. The experience is quite good, makes a newsletter feel almost like a podcast.
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- jlcoff 5y agoUnpopular opinions: the pirate bay.
- silisili 5y agoI like a lot of David Perell's writings. Usually you'll learn at least one thing from each. www.perell.com
- unfolding 5y agoI really like the Astral Codex blog[1]. It is rationalist blog that features a variety of long-form posts, book reviews, discussions, etc. I don't really know if I consider myself a rationalist or not but I find the posts, discussions, and community to be very stimulating. [1]: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ https://astralcodexten.substack.com/
- princeali_ 5y agoThanks for posting this! Seems super dope with a large backlog of articles to dive into!
- tsidewinder 5y agoSame guy (Scott Siskin) wrote slatestarcodex.com, which covers over a hundred writeups of a similar quality, going back to 2013. Lots of great stuff. I recommend checkimg the top posts on that blog, its the best content on the internet imo. I've read almost all of it. He changed to Astralcodexten after the New York Times threatened to Doxx him (for "policy" reasons), which basically upended his entire life, since he had (and now still has, in a slighly altered form), a successful psychiatry practice. Brilliant guy.
- nlitened 5y agoI didn't know his name until you wrote it here (I specifically abstained from looking it up), so to me you're the part of that NYT doxxing crowd who "upended his entire life".
- ujki1 5y agoWhile he is still uses the pseudonym Scott Alexander, he has told his real name in Astral Codex Ten so I don't believe it's supposed to be a secret anymore.
- lhoff 5y agoSomeone wrote a nice intro to Scott Alexanders Blogs with links to some recommended articles. My personal favorite read from the past months is definitely the article on ivermectin. Its a hell of a ride and he was able to create a very well working (at least for me) metaphor that allowed me to imagine how the covid-denial people came to their conclusions.
- waingake 5y agoThe New Yorker is great https://www.newyorker.com https://www.newyorker.com. Amazing writing, so much so that I can be pulled into articles that I wouldn't expect to be interested in. I had a Kindle subscription, but liked it so much I forked out for a print subscription. I find it a real struggle reading long form articles digitally.
- marsa 5y agore. digital: the last time i read a newyorker article it consumed 900+ MB of my mobile data plan and i've been avoiding it like the plague ever since. which is a shame because the writing is generally good as you note.
- dotancohen 5y agoThe New Yorker certainly is entertaining to read, but their articles are notoriously slanted. Even non-controversial subjects are presented from a polarized standpoint. Its as if the whole purpose of the articles is to misinform the reader just enough to get into an argument with someone on the topic.
- chillpenguin 5y agoI like The Economist. https://www.economist.com/ https://www.economist.com/
- stephenhuey 5y agoSome of my favorites have already been mentioned: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Economist. But one missing jewel of great long-form stories told with excellent writing is: Texas Monthly https://www.texasmonthly.com/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/
- eliben 5y agoBooks Seriously. Books are the ultimate long-form content; their authors typically spend years researching and writing them, and you can sample many reviews before committing to read one.
- baron816 5y agoHow about audiobooks? Had I had the option to listen to audiobooks while I was in school, I would’ve been a much better student. I never read any of the assigned reading when I was in school because I couldn’t keep my focus on the words, but I’m finding myself cruising through about one very long book per month. Most of the books had been non-fiction (social science and history mostly), but more recently I’ve been getting into novels. They’re just so easy to listen to at the gym, or while driving, or while playing video games. For all of you who have kids, please encourage them to listen to audiobooks if they don’t like reading paper books. That is, unless you think it’s a valuable skill to know how to bullshit their way through a paper on a book they haven’t read…
- causi 5y agoAudiobooks are my saving grace when it comes to my daily commute and doing boring chores at home.
- hardlianotion 5y agoAgreed on the commute. I find that, having stopped commuting, I cannot follow an audiobook any more.
- eliben 5y agoA lot of my reading is audiobooks. I love audiobooks - they enabled my reading levels to go way up in the last few years. Some more details about this here: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2020/my-reading-habits/ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2020/my-reading-habits/
- czottmann 5y ago
- sharmi 5y agoA cautionary message from someone who used to think long form content equals quality and indepth coverage: Long form content in magazines still used to have limited pages. So there needed to be a balance between information and prose. So even in long prose, the content was well edited, every sentence brought something important to the table. Nowadays, on the web, an article could have infinite length without any limits. Less editing skills required and more importantly, the longer you stay on page, the better their metrics. So the content tends to be way longer with more passages that do not really add anything to the central message. Most of them are approaching novellas in length. At one point in time, this became such a big time sink for me, I wrote a firefox extension to warn me how long the page was and how long I spent on it. I am a moderately good reader and still some of these articles would typically take 45 mins to finish. One heuristic I follow nowadays: Before reading, I think about what my purpose of this article is, what I hope to learn from this exercise: (It could just even be entertainment) A few mins in, I see if this purpose is being fulfilled. If yes, I continue. If not, I just bail out.
- kirso 5y agoTo add from a different perspective, long-form content also doesn't guarantee organic traffic: https://ahrefs.com/blog/short-form-content/ https://ahrefs.com/blog/short-form-content/
- Veen 5y agoYes, it's mainly because Google started using a similar heuristic a few years ago: length equals quality. Or so the SEO world concluded. It may not have been true; correlation != causation is not a popular concept in SEO. The result is publishers and marketers padding content to achieve some imaginary ideal length. It's why recipes, for example, have hundreds of words of irrelevant crap at the beginning. That said, the long-form essay is an ancient genre—much older than the modern magazine article—and they have always been filled with "irrelevant" asides, tangents, artistic flourishes, and so on. Concisely conveying their "central message" wasn't the primary point of the form, and people who enjoyed that type of essay wouldn't expect a linear explanation of the topic. The prose style, imaginative complexity, unexpected comparisons, digressions, and explorations were integral to the genre. Sadly, great essays of that type take a long time to write and edit, and most people aren't interested in reading them. So we get long, repetitive, unimaginative junk instead.
- bricemo 5y agoThe Information is the best long form content on tech news and analysis that I believe exists. Pricey but worth it. Surprised no one else has mentioned it.
- jozzas 5y agolongform.org used to be my go-to, but they have stopped curating long form content. Would be interested if anyone could recommend a replacement.
- rkique 5y agoI go on Quora. I don't really like their digest emails or any of their recent monetization efforts but it's still unparalleled in free high quality writing, especially if you follow the right people. It remains one of the best places to find interesting stories and explanations, and also for exposure to a wide range of human experiences.
- dredmorbius 5y agoBooks. My general preference these days is non-fiction. For discovery methods see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29609479 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29609479 Generally my problem is far too much content and not enough time, rather than the reverse. Online content seems to have rapidly diminishing quality. Search and discovery tools are increasingly disappointing. More on general "finding stuff" here: https://tildes.net/~misc/szx/what_tips_or_tricks_do_you_use_when_researching_a_topic_to_find_actually_useful_information#comment-5sou https://tildes.net/~misc/szx/what_tips_or_tricks_do_you_use_...
- GekkePrutser 5y agoSubstack for blogs. They have some famous people like Snowden. Medium is more popular but they constantly bug youto subscribe and have too much tracking.
- dusted 5y agoHN, the youtube channels I subscribe to, twitch.tv, netflix. But I'll repeat what others said, that long form != high quality, especially netflix documentaries are so bad that I simply will not watch them, they seem to be optimized only to waste your time, and somehow always manage to avoid leaking any information at all.
- input_sh 5y agoI find them either on https://longreads.com/ https://longreads.com/ or in a couple of indie magazines I follow (like for example this one: https://logicmag.io/ https://logicmag.io/)
- lornajane 5y agoHappy to see someone beat me to the recommendation of longreads.com, I get their weekly newsletter and have found some really great pieces there that I wouldn't have seen otherwise.
- dgellow 5y agoIn the past few months I spent a lot of time consuming content from these two sources: - https://fasterthanli.me https://fasterthanli.me, already quite popular on HN. Amos articles are often really long and have lot of details, they read like adventures and I love that. - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing, Old New Thing by Raymond Chen at Microsoft. He’s writing articles since ~20 years and has a lot of really cool anecdotes regarding low level Windows stuff. I stopped trying to find platforms with long form content, personal blogs is the only thing that works for me (and HN, but that’s an addiction more than anything else :p).
- ocdtrekkie 5y agoI really prefer interesting blog posts. While I use HN and Twitter and such often to find interesting links, if I find one, and it's part of a blog, I usually take the opportunity to pull it's feed into my RSS reader, since other content on the same site is likely of similar quality.
- somedangedname 5y agoIt's a bit niche but for reading about military history I've really been enjoying https://acoup.blog https://acoup.blog.
- 0x008 5y agoThe New York Times writes great articles and usually you get a discount so it only costs 1 or 2$ per week which I find really fair pricing. Also popular substack Newsletters. It totally depends though, some are just hot air even in the paid versions and others really have good content also for free subscribers. If there is more need for content I will go through my list of 100+ blogs and just grab some random old article about compiling gtk on gentoo or similar… haha
- CodeGlitch 5y agoPodcasts. TRIGGERnometry: https://audioboom.com/channels/4991237.rss https://audioboom.com/channels/4991237.rss Lex Fridman Podcast: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:234608349/sounds.rss https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:23460834... The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ADV2256857693 https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ADV2256857693
- Gareth321 5y agoI've really been enjoying Triggernometry. They really aren't afraid to discuss important topics.
- CodeGlitch 5y agoYes every episode is worth listening to. I like how they might be talking about a serious subject one minute, then crack a joke at just the right time.
- kzrdude 5y agoMy tips would be (a bit different than those maybe): - Fall of Civilizations podcast (Has few but some absolutely gorgeous, long episodes). - People I mostly admire - Freakonomics (earlier episodes better than current IMO) - The Joy of X - Numberphile and The 3b1b podcast - In Our Time (BBC)
- CodeGlitch 5y agoThanks for those.
- atc 5y ago
- stereoradonc 5y agoYou can join here for the best reads that I curate manually for the long-form: https://t.me/+pwdYcfBiV1I3Njll https://t.me/+pwdYcfBiV1I3Njll This is on Telegram and will require admin approval. I had to keep this as a private channel. I read a lot; if I find (and come across) good book recommendations, I post them too (including the books). You can save content locally, but the channel is restricted to disallow forwarding. This is intentional, because once I plan for comments and group discussions, I need something more substantial than fluff.
- MonaroVXR 5y agoI joined the Telegram group, Monday 24 Jan 20:10. Netherlands UTC + 1 from the top of my head.
- desaiguddu 5y agohttps://fiftytwo.in https://fiftytwo.in [Largely India focused stories] Worked with this company for building their Newsroom Workflow solution.
- Veen 5y agoThree Quarks Daily often surfaces high-quality long form content from a broad ideological cross-section. As others have mentioned, Arts and Letters Daily is often interesting too. https://3quarksdaily.com/ https://3quarksdaily.com/ https://www.aldaily.com/ https://www.aldaily.com/ And, while I'm commenting, some of my favorite Substacks who tend to write long content are: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/ https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/ https://justinehsmith.substack.com/ https://justinehsmith.substack.com/ https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ https://razib.substack.com/ https://razib.substack.com/ https://www.theinsight.org/ https://www.theinsight.org/
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- Havoc 5y agoNot sure it counts as long form since it isn’t written but I’ve been loving YouTube documentaries on big infrastructure projects and geopolitics issues. There are a handful of small content creators cranking out quality content in these areas
- feynman69 5y agoWhat are the channel names? I've been looking for some quality YouTube videos. Thanks!
- Havoc 5y agoInfrastructure heavy list: Megaprojects, neo, real engineering, Free Documentary, The B1M, Tomorrow's Build, Wendover Productions. Not infra, but similar long form docu vibe: Johnny Harris, Coldfusion, Vice. I'd probably start with Johnny Harris - his style is somewhat unique. All over the place when it comes to topics but usually thoughtfully executed & researched.
- feynman69 5y agoWow thanks!
- ploppyploppy 5y ago
- kp25 5y ago- https://waitbutwhy.com/ https://waitbutwhy.com/ by Tim Urban - https://moretothat.com/ https://moretothat.com/ by Lawrence Yeo - https://psyche.co/ https://psyche.co/ - https://aeon.co/ https://aeon.co/ - https://www.quantamagazine.org/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/ I didn't realise till now, I read at least 2-3 articles a week from the above list. Well written long form content.
- nottorp 5y ago
- LoveMortuus 5y agoImportant quote to not forget: "If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter" Meaning quantity =/= quality. That being said, a lot of short content today has near zero quality. When TikTok reached first place on the DNS thingy, I decided to try it, so as to not feel like I'm out of touch. My findings were that TikTok works on disappointment, it's going to show you low quality content for so long that you drop your expectations to almost zero, which means that when you do eventually see some content with at least a bit of effort put into it, it gives you a dopamine hit and you feel like it was all worth it. I personally have not been able to find any usefulness from the app except consuming time, which it's great at. But if you've got a lot of time to waste you might as well be reading a book or something, not sure. I haven't really been able to fit TikTok into my life, but I don't really feel like I'm missing anything. Also food for thought: "YouTube used to have much more short form content, but then the algorithm forced many to making videos that are at least 10 min long. Doing that YouTube removed enough creators for a platform like TikTok to be viable and successful. Now YouTube introduced YouTube Shorts. Think..." (https://twitter.com/LoveMortuus/status/1485258235137429507?t=XSUDBTSAOyRtMKqTh4x5kw&s=19 https://twitter.com/LoveMortuus/status/1485258235137429507?t...)
- env123 5y agoAs much as The Economist is good, it's still news, which has negative effects on the mind + it's too focused on global economy which don't really have any value for me, maybe to an actual economist/global leader, it would XXX Review of Books are good, but they're basically convoluted essays. Good for anybody else, not for my time though Aeon focuses much on philosophy. I no longer read this though because it's too academic for my taste Brain Pickings, Arts & Daily, 3 Quarks Daily focuses much on classics, mostly - I'd rather read classics that reading writings about classics, nowadays
- env123 5y ago^ This.
- gwhl 5y agoBooks. They're called books.
- jerome-jh 5y agoRead research papers on a topic of interest to you. As of now I try to limit the time I spend on HN. I skim through articles very quickly. OTOH I recently reorganized my collection of research papers, most of them obtained thanks to that Kazakhstani heroïcal woman. I pick one and read it from start to finish, over the course of a week, a month, whatever. I often do not understand what I read. Little by little, reading again after a few months the same article, I understand one paragraph more :) The two golden rules: - stick to the most important, breakthrough papers - read a paper from start to finish, even if you do not understand it. Do not block, just keep reading.
- kirso 5y agoI love finance biographies from Neckar, its more of a longer newsletter but stories are fascinating: https://neckar.substack.com/ https://neckar.substack.com/ Its not sensational, but just well researched and put together. A good example is bootstrapping buyouts: https://neckar.substack.com/p/reginald-lewis-bootstrapping-buyouts https://neckar.substack.com/p/reginald-lewis-bootstrapping-b... Cedric's commoncog already mentioned here. And second these resources: - https://waitbutwhy.com/ https://waitbutwhy.com/ by Tim Urban - https://moretothat.com/ https://moretothat.com/ by Lawrence Yeo - https://psyche.co/ https://psyche.co/ - https://aeon.co/ https://aeon.co/ - https://www.quantamagazine.org/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/