Best Free Websites

General

• I release a weekly blog (separate from this long-form website) that distills everything that I'm reading from the sources below into the most essential reading on science, technology, and macro
• And here's a link to my curated Twitter feed on the topics above
• Wait But Why, this collection of primers on various industries, Farnam Street, The Marginalian, summaries of ideas & books, Unemurated, Naval Ravikant, Our World in Data, Manhattan Institute
• Podcasts: Tim Ferris, Sam Harris, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, The Knowledge Project

Tech

• Stratechery, Guide to AI, ML papers of the week, another fantastic blog on AI, and another, and another, and another, yet another, State of The Future, Tech Fund blog, the research blogs of DeepMind, Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, Facebook and Apple, Not Boring, Hazy Research, Anthropic co-founder's blog, DeepMind prof's blog, Ilya's top AI papers to study, Sequoia Capital's blog, Robotics Roundup, deep tech company write ups, SemiEngineering, TSMC + Samsung + Intel's research portals, Bill Gurley's blog, a software investor's blog, a16z's blogs (1,2), studying how progress happens, VC theses as a way to hear about early tech (1,2), summaries of hundreds of private companies, news and analysis on hardware, IEEE Spectrum, a top researcher on quantum computing weeding through the hype, Geek Wire for news, this blog on the metaverse, Paul Graham, Ben Evans, LBL's seminars on quantum, Gwern
• Tech investing: fund managers' blogs (1, 2), FinTech market analysis
• Podcasts: Near Frontiers, No Priors, MLSys, MIT Robotics, Interconnected, Abstracts by Microsoft Research, Lenny's Podcast, Generally Intelligent, Exponent, The New Quantum Era, Computer Architecture

Science & Innovation in Atoms

General:

• Lawrence Berkley and Livermore Labs' news centers (1,2), Wyss Institute at Harvard, The White Pill, MIT, National Academy of Engineering, Stanford news (1,2), CalTech research news, Harvard's school for applied engineering & science, good news source, AtomsNotBits, Payload for space news, MIT Nano, DCVC, Nature Magazine's blog, Science Magazine's blog, Institute for Nanotech, Max Plank Society, EPFL, C&EN, Galileo Unbound, Department of Energy's highlights, Oak Ridge Lab News, Quanta Magazine, Wolfram Alpha's writings, Fundamental Questions Institute
• Podcasts: TechBlick, The Science of Everything, The Future of Everything, Science Magazine, MIT Nano, Materialism, Open Catalyst

Biotech & Medicine:

• Century of Bio, Decoding Bio, my colleague's blog, Asimov Labs, Asimov's fav articles of the week, AI x bio blogs, primers on computational bio topics, interactive 3D explorer for biomolecules, Fifty Years, Broad Institute, Ground Truths, recent paper summaries, Fierce Biotech, Dimension Research, Northwestern synbio, Digitalis Ventures, Leerink, Innovation Endeavors, Synthesis blog, Liu Group, Codon, Omics! Omics!, SynBioBeta, this PhD student's blog, great primers on key biotech innovations, LMB, Allen Institute, Axial, The Scientist, LifeSciVC, David Baker's Lab, this comprehensive collection of resources on biotech, this news site, data-driven insights on the business of biotech, estimates of the size of bioeconomy, blogs on green chemicals (1, 2), Drug Baron, Essentials of Cell Biology, Plant Research weekly
• Podcasts: Translation, BIOS, CASP talks, Valence Labs' talks on AI x Bio, Grow Everything, The Long Run with Luke Timmerman, Disruptive, Translating Aging, Lifespan by David Sinclair, A Day in the Half-Life, Longevity Biotech, Quanta, The Joy of Why, molpigs, Bio Eats World

Crypto

• dba, Token Terminal's blog, Vitalik Buterin's blog, 0xSmac, Concurrent Research, VeradiVerdict, Crypto Market Map, Electric Capital, Pantera Capital's thoughts, Maven11, The Depths, Artemis, Irreducible for zk, 1kx, Zee Prime, Chris Dixon's blog, data platform Kaiko's research, Messari, Standard Crypto, Multicoin's ideas, Monegro's blog, Placeholder's thoughts, list of resources, Syncracy, TCG
• Podcasts: Bankless, Zero Knowledge

Economics & Markets

Note: Harkster is a well-done website that aggregates blogs into a single newsfeed so you don't have to constantly check each one independently or have your inbox bombarded. It feels like reading the news. They have most of the sites below.

News and analysis:

• Bridgewater's latest research (1,2), a former Bridgewater trader's thoughts, biggest drivers of the economy & markets, a quality blog on topical subjects, Nobel Laureates posting their thoughts at Project Syndicate, Andy Constan's market analysis, Exante Data's writing, BIS, PIIE, SF Fed, NY Fed, VISA, Man Group, GMO, PGIM, Adam Tooze's blog, analysis from a quant shop, Milken Review
• Other sources: KKR, Hoisington, DeerPoint Macro, AMRO Asia, Lyn Alden, Emerging Market Investor, Blackstone, Lord Abbett, Janus Henderson, OEC
• Podcasts: Odd Lots, Freakonomics, Trade Talk, Hidden Forces, Epsilon Theory

On financial plumbing and flows:

• Brad Stetser on international finance, top notch blog on monetary plumbing, Zoltan Pozsar's insights on money & shadow banking

On China:

• Rhodium Group, Michael Pettis' insights, Big Data China, Macro Polo, PRC Leader, Andrew Batson's blog, CFR, a site tracking China's power projection

Theorizing and policymaking:

• Bridgewater's long-form analysis, Institute for Progress, Epsilon Theory, AQR, Arcadia, Economics from the Top Down blog, Phenomenal World

Economic data:

• FRED, Yardeni, OEC, US data, Trading Economics for global data, US surveys, Long Term Trends

Commodities, Energy & The Environment

• Global Energy Monitor, Speed & Scale, Sustainability by the Numbers, Cleantech Group, National Renewable Energy Labs (1,2), Bloomberg's energy transition division, Lowercarbon Capital, blog of Terraform Industries' founder on energy and space, datasets & insights on climate change issues, Clean Energy journal, ARPA-E (DARPA for energy), Arjun Murti, a fund manager's notes, info on nuclear energy, CTVC
• Podcasts: Catalyst, Volt

Investing

• Berkshire Hathaway's annual letters, Mark Howard's memos, Bill Miller's latest thoughts, Michael Mauboussin's insights on investing, these compilations of the commentary from history's greatest investors & traders, Aswath Damodaran's blog and his estimates of things like equity risk premium, Robert Shiller's data for long-run estimates of things like CAPE & home prices, VC by the Numbers, collection of top investment firm's investor letters, all of Amazon's shareholder letters, Value Investor's Club, theses of short-sellers Kerrisdale & Muddy Waters
• Great app for serious retail investors that's halfway between Yahoo Finance and a Bloomberg Terminal: Koyfin
• Podcasts: Invest like the Best, Capital Allocators, Business Breakdowns, Acquired, How I Built This with Guy Raz, Value Hive

Math & Statistics

• Nassim Taleb's sites (1,2), math concepts explained simply, math visualizations, Aleph 0