What are your favorite Essays/Longform blogposts you find yourself coming back to over and over again?<p>Does not have to be entrepreneurship related!<p>Heading out for a longer vacation and wanna stack up that Kindle
Essays of GK Chesterton, Hazlitt, Emerson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Santayana, Bertrand Russell, HL Mencken, Oscar Wilde, William James<p>Almost everything they wrote, but some good starting points:<p>Chesterton - <i>Heretics, Varied Types</i><p>Hazlitt - <i>The Plain Speaker, Table-Talk</i><p>Emerson - <i>Essays: First and Second Series</i><p>Stevenson - <i>Virginibus Puerisque, Across the Plains</i><p>Santayana - <i>Little Essays</i> ed. Logan Pearsall Smith<p>Russell - <i>Unpopular Essays, Sceptical Essays</i><p>Mencken - <i>Selected Prejudices</i><p>Wilde - <i>Intentions</i><p>James - <i>Talks to Students</i>, <i>Memories and Studies</i>
I greatly enjoyed working through this list a while back: <a href="https://kk.org/cooltools/best-magazine-articles-ever/" rel="nofollow">https://kk.org/cooltools/best-magazine-articles-ever/</a>
From my Kobo vacation readings :<p>- The internet didn’t kill counterculture — you just won’t find it on Instagram
<a href="https://www.documentjournal.com/2021/01/the-internet-didnt-kill-counterculture-you-just-wont-find-it-on-instagram/" rel="nofollow">https://www.documentjournal.com/2021/01/the-internet-didnt-k...</a><p>- Extreme Athleticism Is the New Midlife Crisis (10 min)
<a href="https://elemental.medium.com/extreme-athleticism-is-the-new-midlife-crisis-d87199a18bed" rel="nofollow">https://elemental.medium.com/extreme-athleticism-is-the-new-...</a><p>- The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done (19 min)
<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-rise-and-fall-of-getting-things-done" rel="nofollow">https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-rise...</a><p>- On Aging Alone (19 min)
<a href="https://thewalrus.ca/on-aging-alone/" rel="nofollow">https://thewalrus.ca/on-aging-alone/</a><p>- How an Unlikely Family History Website Transformed Cold Case Investigations (31 min)
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/science/gedmatch-genealogy-cold-cases.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/science/gedmatch-genealog...</a><p>- They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War (31 min)
<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-makers-started-cold-war/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-...</a><p>- Why Revolutionaries Love Spicy Food (14 min)
<a href="https://nautil.us/issue/62/systems/why-revolutionaries-love-spicy-food-rp" rel="nofollow">https://nautil.us/issue/62/systems/why-revolutionaries-love-...</a><p>- For Hannah Arendt, totalitarianism is rooted in loneliness (13 min)
<a href="https://aeon.co/essays/for-hannah-arendt-totalitarianism-is-rooted-in-loneliness" rel="nofollow">https://aeon.co/essays/for-hannah-arendt-totalitarianism-is-...</a><p>- The Olympics Is a Racket (18 min)
<a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2021/07/olympics-politics-working-class-international-elite-sports" rel="nofollow">https://jacobinmag.com/2021/07/olympics-politics-working-cla...</a>
There's No Speed Limit [0]<p>How I Became The Honest Broker [1]<p>Running with Bruce Lee [2]<p>This excerpt from Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman [3]<p>Before The Startup [4] (also available in video form[5])<p>[0] <a href="https://sive.rs/kimo" rel="nofollow">https://sive.rs/kimo</a><p>[1] <a href="https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/how-i-became-the-honest-broker" rel="nofollow">https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/how-i-became-the-honest-brok...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://quittingadderall.com/running-with-bruce-lee-quote/" rel="nofollow">http://quittingadderall.com/running-with-bruce-lee-quote/</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/kilcup.1/262/feynman.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/kilcup.1/262/feynman.html</a><p>[4] <a href="http://paulgraham.com/before.html" rel="nofollow">http://paulgraham.com/before.html</a><p>[5] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii1jcLg-eIQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii1jcLg-eIQ</a>
I really like this one<p>The Night I Met Einstein by
Jerome Weidman<p><a href="https://www.rd.com/article/the-night-i-met-einstein/" rel="nofollow">https://www.rd.com/article/the-night-i-met-einstein/</a>
How to Think for Yourself by Paul Graham. Link to essay: <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/think.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/think.html</a>