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Ask HN: What are some blogs of really smart people you check regularly?
What are some blogs of really smart people you check regularly?
The less mainstream or well known the better.
Edit:
I'll provide some of my own;
http://blog.asmartbear.com/archives
http://www.dilbert.com/blog/
^Mostly of entertainment value but he says some interesting things from time to time.
http://rs.io/articles
- supersrdjan 12y agofarnamstreetblog.com
- JacobEdelman 12y agoReally smart people I know like www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ . It's quite popular on HN. I also recommend https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/ for interesting articles :P
- thousandtyone 12y agoSeth Godin has a blog that's short and sweet: http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/ http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/ http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/ http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/ is interesting when it comes to career advice. http://www.codinghorror.com http://www.codinghorror.com - technology related. http://www.themiddlefingerproject.org/ http://www.themiddlefingerproject.org/ - another smart blogger and not very mainstream. http://randsinrepose.com/ http://randsinrepose.com/ - writer of managing humans. has an impressive blog.
- duncan_bayne 12y agohttp://esr.ibiblio.org/ http://esr.ibiblio.org/ - Eric S. Raymond
- slashnull 12y agoI'm completely addicted to rationalist blogs these days (for better or for worse). Currently bingeing http://slatestarcodex.com http://slatestarcodex.com, and many, many of the blogs he links to. In a completely different category, I enjoy war reporting blogs for a really down-to-earth, naturalistic (and arguably overly militaristic) point of view of geopolitic issues. - The War Nerd (http://pando.com/author/garybrecher/ http://pando.com/author/garybrecher/) - War is Boring (https://medium.com/war-is-boring https://medium.com/war-is-boring)
- koberstein 12y agohttp://unenumerated.blogspot.com/ http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/
- avni000 12y agoFrom the VC space: Fred Wilson's AVC: http://avc.com http://avc.com Ben Horowitz Ben's Blog: http://www.bhorowitz.com http://www.bhorowitz.com Paul Graham's Essays: http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
- avni000 12y agoedit: for lesser known, I would say: - Whitney Johnson's blog on disrupting yourself: http://whitneyjohnson.com http://whitneyjohnson.com - Occam's Razor on data driven marketing: http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/ http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/ - Copyblogger (probably in the well known bucket but still really good): http://www.copyblogger.com/blog/ http://www.copyblogger.com/blog/
- mwhite 12y agohttp://michaelochurch.wordpress.com http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/ http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/ http://pchiusano.github.io/ http://pchiusano.github.io/ (was http://pchiusano.blogspot.com/ http://pchiusano.blogspot.com/) http://www.daedtech.com/blog http://www.daedtech.com/blog http://yosefk.com/blog/ http://yosefk.com/blog/ http://oldurbanist.blogspot.com/ http://oldurbanist.blogspot.com/
- unclesaamm 12y agoNot tech, or even a famous figure, but I still check the blog of my history professor from college: https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/ https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/ I have a friend who wrote poetry on the side and never publicized it. These poems are so good that I still check it every other day, even though no new posts have been made in maybe a year.
- endrebak 12y agoSteve Hsu: http://infoproc.blogspot.com http://infoproc.blogspot.com Example post title: "Preimplantation genetic diagnosis and screening using next generation sequencing" Razib Khan: http://www.unz.com/gnxp/ http://www.unz.com/gnxp/ Example post title: "Most Horse Lineages Are in Heaven" Gregory Cochran: http://westhunt.wordpress.com/ http://westhunt.wordpress.com/ Example post: "It is easier to develop a phobia about snakes than electricity or carbon monoxide, probably because we have built in neurological mechanism that confer that propensity. Likely most animals have a similar propensity to develop a fear of fire: or it might come automatically. If there was such a fear-of-fire mechanism, we have lost it: and dogs have as well. If this is correct, one could learn about this hypothetical mechanism by comparing dogs and wolves." --- These are heavily biased towards population genetics and quantitative genetics. Would appreciate suggestions for blogs of smart people writing about molecular biology.
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- lazyjones 12y agoPhilip Greenspun wrote really interesting things about web development in the mid-/late 90's. Nowdays he writes about more general issues, still always worth reading: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/
- zzzzz_ 12y agohttp://jamesaltucher.com.. http://jamesaltucher.com... but I think he's "jumped" the shark recently.
- adam419 12y agoHow do you figure?
- RickS 12y agoTom Tunguz: http://tomtunguz.com/ http://tomtunguz.com/ Patrick McKenzie http://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/ Intercom http://blog.intercom.io/ http://blog.intercom.io/