This is an amalgamation of articles/videos/quotes that I find interesting. This is pretty incomplete and I'll be expanding this in the future, especially since I've unfortunately not kept track of things.
Quotes
- “The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance.”, Norbert Wiener.
- “Whenever I am around people I feel crazy. I feel like some madman the moment I open my mouth, I don't adhere to what most people like. [...] I don't even know alot about what I like, despite being well liked, I feel so out of place.”
- “You all have a little bit of “I want to save the world” in you. I want you to know that it’s okay if you only save one person, and it’s okay if that person is you.”, Evan Chen.
- “I think it’s really important to not have an opinion on things you don’t know much about.”, Yi sun.
- “Never underestimate results that count something.”, Fraleigh.
- “Stop fooling yourself, scrambling to barely qualify an exam isn’t ambition, it’s avoidance of real effort. You’re not just competing to pass; you’re competing with people who own their knowledge. Rushing makes you fragile, and when the real challenges come, you’ll break. Mediocrity doesn’t impress anyone.”
- “He who sees how far he can lean out of a window without falling is a moron.”
Academic Articles
- Mathematical Formalisation of Dimensional Analysis
- Didaktikogenic Physics Misconceptions
- Great Mathematicians on Math Competitions and “Genius”
- Danger of Analogies
- So You Want to Be a Physicist: A 22 Part Guide
- Infinitely Many Stages of Grief
- A Story of A Town
- On Choosing Exercises
- Terence Tao's Career Advice
- Bartosz Ciechanowski's articles | Really wonderful, definitely worth having a look at.
- Coffin Problems | Especially interesting for the history behind them.
Articles/Essays
- What Football Will Look Like in the Future
- The Pudding
- The Age of the Essay
- What You Can't Say
- The GNU Manifesto
- The Hitler - Mannerheim Conversation | Very interesting historically.
- Project MK-ULTRA
- History of the Net
- HOUNDING TEENAGE HACKERS DON'T PLUG THOSE LEAKY COMPUTERS | A funny txt file written in 1984.
- CIA Memo on Communist Brainwashing.
- Etymology of “Foo”
- Are there any important biographies of nobodies?
Videos
The Infinite Weight of Mediocrity
snow
There Are Mountains in the Clouds
Horses
Existential Crisis in Class
WhatsItLike
Empathy for the Inanimate
Shloop
Why we can't focus.
Jared Henderson
I Typed a Dog
Japhy Riddle
Atypography - Art Movement Introduction
Atype Movement
Elysium
dooglebug
The Diary of a Teenager
krys
What Does "the" Even Mean?
K Klein
The Alt-Right in Tabletop Games
snow
Birds Do Not Sing in Caves
Horses
Why Write Fiction (if you'll probably never be published)?
Below the Fray
Socialization Simulator
Diggon
no, the moon.
the wrecking crew
an astronomer meets a violinist
akezu
glimpse of us if chopin composed it
Birru
The Charlie Rose Paradox
Below the Fray
안코하/杏こは - I Do Adore
하범HABUM
Genetic grief
TAEETIMEE
everything (and more)
MARAN
Illusions of Time
Vsauce
Nihilism.mp4
Trisket
people strive to be fantasies of themselves
Shirley Lee
A First Look At Raytraced Audio
Vercidium
The History of Tetris World Records
Summoning Salt
O, Death!
Horses
forming real human connections? sounds fake but ok
Savannah Brown
i could write my magnum opus or i could simply go to bed
Savannah Brown
Switzerland
Gawx 2
I only wanted to be normal...
snow
half time.
krys
i feel this is the best harmony ive ever written
AZALI
what is love. baby you're hurting me ow ow ow
Savannah Brown
All The Ghosts You Will Be
Vsauce
Who Can Write Whose Story?
Below the Fray
BRIEFCHASE | Student Short Film
krys
Did People Used To Look Older?
Vsauce
I Put a Mechanical Keyboard INSIDE My Laptop
Marcin Plaza
Sitcom Simulacrum
Below the Fray
if i'm you and you're me then...who's that
Savannah Brown
"I'll never amount to anything"
anorthkey6214
Yes, You Are Living in a Simulation
Horses
I built an Ultrawide DS ... a DIY Steam Deck thingy.
Marcin Plaza
You Can't Hate Yourself Into Loving Yourself
Sisyphus 55