What are your favorite Essays/Longform blogposts

Essays of GK Chesterton, Hazlitt, Emerson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Santayana, Bertrand Russell, HL Mencken, Oscar Wilde, William James

Almost everything they wrote, but some good starting points:

Chesterton - Heretics, Varied Types

Hazlitt - The Plain Speaker, Table-Talk

Emerson - Essays: First and Second Series

Stevenson - Virginibus Puerisque, Across the Plains

Santayana - Little Essays ed. Logan Pearsall Smith

Russell - Unpopular Essays, Sceptical Essays

Mencken - Selected Prejudices

Wilde - Intentions

James - Talks to Students, Memories and Studies

I greatly enjoyed working through this list a while back: https://kk.org/cooltools/best-magazine-articles-ever/

From my Kobo vacation readings :

- The internet didn’t kill counterculture — you just won’t find it on Instagram https://www.documentjournal.com/2021/01/the-internet-didnt-k...

- Extreme Athleticism Is the New Midlife Crisis (10 min) https://elemental.medium.com/extreme-athleticism-is-the-new-...

- The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done (19 min) https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-rise...

- On Aging Alone (19 min) https://thewalrus.ca/on-aging-alone/

- How an Unlikely Family History Website Transformed Cold Case Investigations (31 min) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/science/gedmatch-genealog...

- They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War (31 min) https://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-...

- Why Revolutionaries Love Spicy Food (14 min) https://nautil.us/issue/62/systems/why-revolutionaries-love-...

- For Hannah Arendt, totalitarianism is rooted in loneliness (13 min) https://aeon.co/essays/for-hannah-arendt-totalitarianism-is-...

- The Olympics Is a Racket (18 min) https://jacobinmag.com/2021/07/olympics-politics-working-cla...

There's No Speed Limit [0]

How I Became The Honest Broker [1]

Running with Bruce Lee [2]

This excerpt from Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman [3]

Before The Startup [4] (also available in video form[5])

[0] https://sive.rs/kimo

[1] https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/how-i-became-the-honest-brok...

[2] http://quittingadderall.com/running-with-bruce-lee-quote/

[3] https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/kilcup.1/262/feynman.html

[4] http://paulgraham.com/before.html

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii1jcLg-eIQ

- https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/

- http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...

https://www.infoq.com/articles/slow-down-go-faster/

Sea of Crisis (Grantland) https://grantland.com/features/sumo-wrestling-tokyo-japan-ha...

I really like this one

The Night I Met Einstein by Jerome Weidman

https://www.rd.com/article/the-night-i-met-einstein/

How to Think for Yourself by Paul Graham. Link to essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/think.html

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage...

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/07/archipelago-and-atomic...

Sorry I don't remember anything right now, but do you do something to read the articles on the kindle?