Resources
Readings I recommend.
Writings, books, tools, and references I've found especially impactful, across AI policy, getting things done, writing, and more. Not exhaustive, just the stuff I keep coming back to or pointing people toward.
AI policy & safety
Agency, Focus, Mindset, and Getting Things Done
- Henrik Karlsson — Hacker Mindset →
- High Agency →
- 80,000 Hours — How to be More Successful →
- Alex Vermeer — A Lack of Time is a Lack of Priorities →
- Alex Vermeer — Life Hacks →
- James Clear — Building an Identity →
- James Clear — Atomic Habits Cheat Sheet →
- Cate Hall — Maybe You're Not Actually Trying →
- Cate Hall — How to be More Agentic →
- Cate Hall — Fuck Willpower →
- Neel Nanda — Become a Person Who Actually Does Things →
- Half Assing It With Everything You've Got →
- Dead Planet Theory →
- Zvi — Levels of Friction →
- On Clinging — Joe Carlsmith →
On writing
Books
- 4000 Weeks — Oliver Burkeman →
- Atomic Habits — James Clear →
- 80,000 Hours — Benjamin Todd →
- The Defining Decade — Meg Jay →
- 10% Happier — Dan Harris →
- Dune — Frank Herbert →
- Speaker for the Dead — Orson Scott Card →
- Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck →
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built — Becky Chambers →
- The Midnight Library — Matt Haig →