Resources I often recommend to people
Career stuff
Highly recommended:
- The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
- So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
- Manager Tools Basics podcast
- 80,000 Hours podcast (and the 80,000 website - read all of their research)
Other stuff I wasn't blown away by but you might find useful:
- The New One Minute Manager
- The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success
- The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
- Harvard Business Review
- AI/MLRoundup for a good overview of news about applied AI.
Thinking well
- How to Measure Anything by Douglas W Hubbard
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
- Conflict Vs. Mistake Theory
- Teach yourself (or your students!) the components of critical thinking.
- Rationality: A-Z - LessWrong 2.0
- The Codex - LessWrong 2.0
- Godel, Escher, Bach
Writing
- The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
Finances
- The Simple Path to Wealth by J L Collins
Improving the world
- Radical Markets by Eric Posner and Glen Weyl
- Doing Good Better by Will McAskill
Productivity
- The Doist blog - This is one of the most insightful blogs I've found, despite being a company blog (which I usually find to be superficial at best and thinly-veiled hard sells at worst)
Grants and funding opportunities
- Ford Foundation
- Sloan Foundation
- Emergent Ventures
- Pioneer
- GitHub - nayafia/microgrants: A list of microgrant programs for your good ideas
- List of opportunities, grants, fellowship programs, contests and things like that for young ambitious people – Harshita Arora
- Protocol Labs
- Radical xChange fellowship
Research tools
- Connected papers - Links papers based on how related they are, as measure by how closely their citations match.
- Lens - Search and filter papers and patents. Also has visualization tools.
- Open Syllabus - Good for finding most used textbooks
- How to generate research proposals - EA Forum