Dmitry Alexeenko

Open Tabs

June 23, 2025 (6m ago)166 views

I was having dinner with my friend Steve when he mentioned that he keeps a personal collection of links to articles, videos, essays that he's found particularly insightful, especially in the era of AI slop and the post-Google Reader era. It also made me think of The Tara Seshan Canon where she shared the set of things that she had read (i.e. canons) that shaped her thinking. For years I've kept my own list by emailing links to myself. I thought it was finally time to publish it.

  1. Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
  2. Shamir Secret Sharing by Max Levchin
  3. Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
  4. Do Things that Don’t Scale by Paul Graham
  5. Steve Yegge’s Google Platforms Rant
  6. What Makes a Great Photograph by Ken Rockwell
  7. Peter Norvig
  8. Designs, Lessons and Advice from Building Large Distributed Systems by Jeff Dean
  9. Boz
  10. Hotel WiFi, VPNs, And Security
  11. Mechanical Watch by Bartosz Ciechanowski
  12. Is it Euro-poor, or Ameri-poor? by Chris Arnade
  13. Can't Unsee by Alex Kotliarskyi
  14. The Tyranny of the Marginal User by Ivan Vendrov
  15. Levels & Derivatives by Noah Pepper
  16. The Performance of Open Source Software High Performance Networking in Chrome by Ilya Grigorik
  17. Engineering Management by Yishan Wong
  18. Using neural nets to recognize handwritten digits
  19. Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning by Volodymyr Mnih et al
  20. What Should You Do with Your Life? Directions and Advice by Alexey Guzey
  21. Distributed systems for fun and profit by Mikito Takada
  22. Dan Luu
  23. Fighting spam with Haskell by Simon Marlow
  24. Facebook Immune System by Tao Stein et al
  25. Practical Deep Learning by Jeremy Howard
  26. Why Chatbots Are Not the Future by Amelia Wattenberger