NB: I didn’t read all of these this week. This is a dump from my long hiatus.
Articles
- What to Do
- Speech by Minister for Defence, Dr Ng Eng Hen, at The Committee of Supply 2025
- Speech by Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan during the Committee of Supply Debate, 3 March 2025
- The builder's yardstick: your life as the measure of all things
- An essay in which my friend feels stuck and I suggest relaxing some constraints
- Rationality is an underrated way to be authentic
- Developing Taste
- minimum effective dose
- How Making Time for Books Made Me Feel Less Busy
- How to Read a Book a Week
- What I Learnt From Complexity
- Minting the world’s next economic superpower: Can Nigeria live up to its potential?
- An Unreasonable Amount of Time
- The Elemental Foe
- No natural resource is inherently valuable
- Why There Won’t Be a Nuremberg 2.0
- Be impatient
- Why Everything is Becoming a Game
- Energy makes time
- You Must Read At Least One Book To Ride
- Clumsy Gods
- Robert Caro on the Art of Biography
- How Doctors Die
- Who By Very Slow Decay
- How Natural Selection Screwed Us
- The Day You Decided to Take the Leap
- Worse Is Better
- Why are we still surprised that startups are hard?
- Stablecoins: The Next Financial Platform
- On stablecoins and cross-border payments
- Sort By Controversial
- The State of the Culture, 2024
- Advice · Patrick Collison
- My favorite essays of life advice
- Staring into the abyss as a core life skill
- Making Normal Conversations Better
- In praise of blowing up your life
- Why Sweden punches above its weight in music
- Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
- finding the right people
- Here for the Wrong Reasons
- Notes on “Taste”
- A unified theory of fucks
- Notes on Nigeria
- The Moat of Low Status
- How to be More Agentic
- First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us
- Almost everyone I’ve met would be well-served thinking more about what to focus on
- What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
- plant life
- flow
- commitment
- ambition
- invisible scripts
- A Paystack Friendship
- 3 Traits of Successful Market-Creating Entrepreneurs
- Unshackling African entrepreneurs from the chains of foreign exchange & digital banking
- Forget Commitment: Invest in Something
- Enjoy the Process: Your Intrinsic Motivation Happiness Machine
- Hunter S. Thompson's Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
- How to Use Deliberate Practice to Reach the Top 1% of Your Field
- 2016 Letter to Shareholders
- Products Are Functions
- The Nothingness of Money
- How to Be Great? Just Be Good, Repeatably
- How To Be Successful
- Grow the Puzzle Around You
- Most People Won't