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. There is an audio recording available of this as well.
- Project MK-ULTRA
- History of the Net
- HOUNDING TEENAGE HACKERS DON'T PLUG THOSE LEAKY COMPUTERS | A txt file written in 1984, before filenames always had extensions, when words on computers were in all caps, about some government action that attempted to “crack down” on “unauthorized computer access”.
- CIA Memo on Communist Brainwashing.
Videos
an astronomer meets a violinist
akezu
"I'll never amount to anything"
anorthkey6214
no, the moon.
the wrecking crew
You Can't Hate Yourself Into Loving Yourself
Sisyphus 55
Genetic grief
TAEETIMEE
Nihilism.mp4
Trisket
Existential Crisis in Class
WhatsItLike
Birds Do Not Sing in Caves
Horses
Who Can Write Whose Story?
Below the Fray
i could write my magnum opus or i could simply go to bed
Savannah Brown
The Charlie Rose Paradox
Below the Fray
Why Write Fiction (if you'll probably never be published)?
Below the Fray
Atypography - Art Movement Introduction
Atype Movement
All The Ghosts You Will Be
Vsauce
people strive to be fantasies of themselves
Shirley Lee
half time.
krys
The Diary of a Teenager
krys
BRIEFCHASE | Student Short Film
krys
if i'm you and you're me then...who's that
Savannah Brown
The Infinite Weight of Mediocrity
snow
forming real human connections? sounds fake but ok
Savannah Brown
I built an Ultrawide DS ... a DIY Steam Deck thingy.
Marcin Plaza
I Put a Mechanical Keyboard INSIDE My Laptop
Marcin Plaza
Why we can't focus.
Jared Henderson
what is love. baby you're hurting me ow ow ow
Savannah Brown
Switzerland
Gawx 2
안코하/杏こは - I Do Adore
하범HABUM
I Typed a Dog
Japhy Riddle
glimpse of us if chopin composed it
Birru
i feel this is the best harmony ive ever written
AZALI
Elysium
dooglebug
everything (and more)
MARAN
There Are Mountains in the Clouds
Horses
O, Death!
Horses
Yes, You Are Living in a Simulation
Horses
We All Got Tricked into Content Addiction
Horses
A First Look At Raytraced Audio
Vercidium
HEMINGWAY: The Unbearable Pain of Greatness
Horses
Why Rich People Love Pretending to Be Poor
Horses