Things I find interesting
Inspo
A collection of things worth revisiting — videos, tweets, tools, writing, and sites I keep coming back to.
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Strategy
Educational startup strategy lecture covering positioning, competitive thinking, and business model fundamentals.
Customer Development Process
Foundational lecture explaining customer development and startup validation through continuous user feedback.
How To Break Into the Startup Ecosystem
Practical advice on entering startup ecosystems through networking, projects, positioning, and skill-building.
How I Created Two Billion-Dollar Fintech Companies
Founder case study on building Monzo and GoCardless through product iteration, timing, and execution discipline.
Pain Killers - Problem or Need
Classic startup framework explaining why products solving painful urgent problems outperform nice-to-have solutions.
High Frequency of Capital Turns = High Sustainability
Business insight explaining how low-margin industries remain sustainable through rapid inventory and capital turnover.
Hardtalk India Jyoti Basu 18 8 1999
only delulu no solulu
Riding to the World's Higest Monastery
Edvard Munch: What A Cigarette Means
What My Family Used to Watch in the Soviet Union
Soviet Army Dancing to Hard Bass [REMASTERED HD]
How one FMCG giant's complaint changed how IPL advertising works
America's Iron Giants — The World's Most Powerful Metalworkers
What Japan Understands About Branding No One Else Does
Muji – The Brand That Designed Nothing
How Muji's no-brand philosophy redefined Japanese consumer design.
The Deadliest Design Mistakes in History
Engineering blunders that caused massive disasters.
Lachung Beyond the Map — A Hidden Side of Sikkim
Stunning visuals of Sikkim's remote paradise.
Indian Premier League Cricket
Audio highlights — IPL's high-stakes drama.
The NFL
Deep dive into NFL's business empire.
TSMC (Remastered)
TSMC's semiconductor dominance — key to understanding AI supply chains.
Renaissance Technologies
Audio story of RenTech's quant trading revolution.
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30 Essays to Make You Love Biology.
Apr 2026
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This isn't just a light show. It's a demonstration of futuristic military power. You are looking at an unarmed drone swarm.
Sep 2024
DEToolbox
Collection of startup execution tools, canvases, and strategic resources for entrepreneurs and product builders.
Steve Blank Startup Tools
Curated founder toolkit covering customer development, lean startup methods, experimentation, and startup education.
YouTube Playlist Generator
AI-assisted tool for generating themed YouTube playlists from prompts, moods, topics, or creator niches without manually searching videos.
Cursify
Converts normal cursor movement into smooth cinematic trails and effects for aesthetic screen recordings and demos.
8x Engineer
Competitive platform where developers build real-world software projects, solve engineering challenges, and earn rewards.
Google Labs Pomelli
Experimental Google Labs workspace for generating and managing AI-powered creative campaigns and marketing concepts.
Bellilou's Neocity
Handcrafted personal web space built in the nostalgic DIY style of the early internet using custom HTML aesthetics and widgets.
Neocities Browse
Directory of independently built personal websites celebrating old-school web creativity, experimentation, and self-hosted internet culture.
PixelCrash
Collection of experimental web visuals, interactive graphics, and glitch-inspired browser art experiences.
SPACE TYPE GENERATOR
Browser-based kinetic typography tool for creating animated text compositions and motion graphics directly on the web.
MagicPattern CSS Backgrounds
Generates customizable SVG and CSS background patterns for websites, apps, and UI design projects.
CSS Textures
Demonstrates how layered gradients and CSS effects can recreate tactile textures without using image assets.
40 CSS Background Effects to Enhance Your Website
Curated collection of modern CSS background animation and visual effect techniques with practical implementation examples.
Transparent Textures
Free library of seamless transparent texture overlays for adding subtle grain and tactile depth to web interfaces.
CSS Pattern
Pattern generator that creates fully editable CSS-only geometric backgrounds without requiring images or SVG files.
Wikimedia Commons Texture Search
Massive searchable archive of freely usable texture images, scans, surfaces, and public-domain visual assets.
Texturelabs
High-quality free texture library with tutorials, overlays, brushes, and downloadable assets for digital artists and designers.
Library of Congress Free to Use and Reuse
Curated collection of copyright-friendly historical images, illustrations, posters, and archival media from the Library of Congress.
Mixpost
Open-source self-hosted social media scheduling platform supporting multi-account publishing, analytics, and automation workflows.
One-Time Secret
Securely share passwords and sensitive text through self-destructing encrypted links that can only be viewed once.
Paymenter
Open-source billing and client management platform built for hosting providers, VPS services, and infrastructure businesses.
Open Archiver
Open-source email archiving and eDiscovery system designed for long-term email storage, compliance, and searchable retrieval.
Sure
Privacy-focused personal finance application for tracking spending, budgeting, and financial habits with a clean modern interface.
Cursify
Open-source React + Next.js cursor animation library with customizable motion effects built using TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and Framer Motion.
8x Engineer
Platform where developers build real-world apps, compete in engineering challenges, and earn money or recognition through practical projects.
Pomelli
Google Labs AI marketing tool that analyzes a brand's website and generates on-brand social campaigns, visuals, and marketing assets automatically.
GitMastery
An interactive Git learning platform that teaches Git commands and concepts through fun, game-like challenges in a safe sandbox environment.
Learn Git Branching
An interactive Git visualization tool and tutorial for mastering Git concepts like branching, merging, and rebasing through browser-based simulations.
Effector
A reactive state manager for Javascript focused on performance, modularity, and type safety.
Swishy.ai
An AI-powered platform for creating high-end motion graphics and smooth transitions.
Venngage Icon Generator
A free online tool to create and customize high-quality icons for infographics and presentations.
Death to Stock
A subscription service providing unique, high-quality photo and video assets beyond traditional stock aesthetics.
Uiverse.io
A community-built library of open-source UI elements made with HTML and CSS.
React Bits
An open-source collection of animated and interactive React components for modern web apps.
Texturefabrik
Premium and free high-quality textures, backgrounds, and digital art assets for creative professionals.
GitMastery
An interactive Git learning platform with a simulated terminal and gamified challenges to master commands hands-on.
Learn Git Branching
A visual Git repository sandbox and tutorial for mastering complex branching, merging, and rebasing through visualization.
Design Reviewed
A curated repository documenting graphic design, visual history, and industrial objects.
Branding Style Guides
A comprehensive archive of official brand identity manuals and corporate design standards.
Stickers.gallery
A curated inspiration gallery featuring unique physical and digital sticker designs.
MyBharat
A digital platform empowering Indian youth through volunteering, skill development, and engagement.
Tooooools
Hyper-dense directory of creative + dev tools
Bendito Mockup
Art-driven premium mockups that feel like photography, not templates
Cosmos (Public Work)
Search engine for public-domain visuals from museums + libraries
Crowdsourced archive documenting failed startup strategies, experiments, growth tactics, and business mistakes.
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Tech Policy To-Do List
Policy-focused essay outlining urgent governance and regulatory challenges created by emerging technologies and AI systems.
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How To Prototype Radically Different Business Models
Framework for rapidly testing unconventional business models before fully committing resources.
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Sternberg Press
Independent publishing house focused on contemporary art, critical theory, architecture, visual culture, and experimental academic writing.
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Set Margins
Experimental publishing platform exploring digital culture, design, internet aesthetics, philosophy, and contemporary media criticism.
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the intersection of art & technology
Curated publication and platform documenting projects, essays, and conversations at the boundary of art, computation, and emerging technology.
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3 Quarks Daily
Long-running intellectual magazine aggregating thoughtful writing across science, philosophy, politics, literature, and the arts.
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The Marginalian
Reflective essays connecting literature, philosophy, science, poetry, and human meaning through deeply researched storytelling.
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NOEMA
Magazine focused on the future of technology, geopolitics, consciousness, AI, systems thinking, and civilizational change.
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Aeon
Digital magazine publishing accessible longform essays and ideas spanning psychology, philosophy, science, society, and culture.
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The Pudding
Interactive visual essay publication using data storytelling, design, and animation to reveal hidden cultural and behavioral patterns.
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The Public Domain Review
Online journal curating unusual public-domain books, illustrations, archives, maps, manuscripts, and forgotten historical media.
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I put a camera on a monkey. Here’s how it shook my understanding of humanity
Using monkey point-of-view footage, Fuentes argues that human behavior and sociality are far less unique than we often assume.
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How to tell a bad person from a person who did a bad thing
Explores the moral difference between condemning actions versus labeling entire people as inherently bad.
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A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you
Argues that meritocracy myths distort social reality, justify inequality, and increase stress, narcissism, and self-blame.
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Why do you believe what you do? Run some diagnostics on it
Practical framework for examining whether your beliefs come from evidence, social influence, emotion, or intellectual luck.
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Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
Personal essay arguing that meaningful work and life paths emerge gradually through experimentation rather than rigid planning.
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Laziness Does Not Exist
Challenges the idea of laziness by arguing that exhaustion, fear, burnout, and structural pressure are usually the real causes behind low productivity.
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The Elusive Green Consumer
Explains why environmentally conscious consumers often fail to act consistently and how businesses can better align incentives with sustainable behavior.
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What happens when you type google.com into your browser and press enter?
Deep practical walkthrough of everything happening between typing a URL and loading a webpage, covering DNS, TCP/IP, HTTPS, browsers, rendering, and servers.
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The Twelve-Factor App
Foundational methodology for building scalable cloud-native software applications with clean deployment, configuration, logging, and process management practices.
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Round #35: Back Leverage: Bank & Private Credit
Explains how modern finance quietly layers leverage through banks, private credit, and shadow financial structures beyond public markets.
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Why Warm Countries Are Poorer
Argues geography and climate heavily shape economic development through agriculture, disease burden, transportation, institutions, and energy efficiency.
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hindi albums you should listen to because there's more than seedhe maut
Curated introduction to lesser-known Hindi music albums spanning indie, alternative, experimental, and genre-diverse artists beyond mainstream rap.
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India doesn't have a right wing
Political commentary arguing that Indian political factions often lack coherent ideological alignment with classical right-wing traditions.
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Horn "OK" Please?
Reflective essay using Indian truck slogans and road culture to explore identity, communication, aesthetics, and everyday public life.
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Confirmation Bias
Explains how people selectively notice and interpret information that reinforces existing beliefs while ignoring contradictory evidence.
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What Are You Going to Do With That?
Critiques modern higher education’s shift from intellectual development toward career optimization and economic signaling.
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The Politics Of Superintelligence
Examines how advanced AI systems could reshape global power, governance, military competition, and institutional stability.
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A Brief History of Consumer Culture
Historical overview of how industrialization, advertising, globalization, and identity shaped modern consumer behavior.
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Building AIs that do human-like philosophy
Explores whether AI systems could reason philosophically in ways similar to humans and what that means for alignment and cognition.
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The Mythology Of Conscious AI
Challenges popular assumptions about conscious machines and argues that human narratives often exaggerate AI sentience.
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The synthetic psychology of the self
Academic exploration of how robotics, neuroscience, and cognitive modeling can simulate human-like concepts of selfhood and identity.
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The Trouble with Scientists
Science is distorted by human bias; researchers favor confirmation while journals reward 'neat' results, leading to a slow self-correction process despite improved transparency tools.
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Cities and Ambition
live where people chase X → you start chasing X; cities quietly set the default definition of success and pull you towards it.
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The Past and Future of Military Drones
how drones quietly shifted war from 'protect pilots' to 'scale cheap, autonomous kill systems'—and why the next leap is less about hardware and more about coordination and mass.
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High Agency in 30 Minutes
The mindset that separates people who make things happen from people who wait for them to happen. Short, punchy, worth re-reading once a year.
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Indie Hackers
Community platform where indie founders share revenue metrics, experiments, product launches, and startup journeys.
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Submarine Cable Map
Interactive global map visualizing undersea internet cables, landing points, and worldwide digital infrastructure connecting continents.
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i miss my library
Ambient productivity site recreating the quiet atmosphere of libraries with realistic background sounds for studying and focused work.
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I Miss My Cafe
Relaxing browser experience simulating coffee shop ambience with customizable café sounds, rain, chatter, and background noise.
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Postcrossing
Global postcard exchange community where strangers send and receive real postcards from around the world.
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WindowSwap
Virtual window-view platform letting users experience relaxing real-world scenery and ambient sounds from homes worldwide.
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MySketchBooth
Free online vintage-style photo booth that transforms selfies into retro sketches, film strips, and nostalgic portrait effects.
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Neal.fun
Collection of highly polished interactive experiments, simulations, and educational web toys exploring science, culture, money, and absurd internet ideas.
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Absurd Trolley Problems
Darkly funny interactive moral-choice game that escalates the classic trolley problem into bizarre and increasingly impossible scenarios.
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Radiooooo
Time-travel radio platform that lets users discover music from different countries and decades through an interactive world map.
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Animal Crossing Letter Generator
Fan-made tool for creating printable Animal Crossing-style letters with authentic game-inspired layouts and typography.
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The Art Scavenger
Archive of free printable collage sheets, vintage ephemera, textures, and paper craft resources for artists and journal makers.
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Erowid Roulette
Randomized portal into unusual and often surreal experience reports sourced from Erowid’s psychoactive substance archive.
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Erowid Psychoactive Vaults
Massive educational archive documenting psychoactive substances, user reports, chemistry, culture, risks, and historical references.
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Mercatus Center — India Political Economy Program
Research initiative publishing analysis on Indian economic policy, governance, markets, institutions, and public policy reform.
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Atlas Obscura
Travel discovery platform cataloging unusual places, hidden history, strange museums, forgotten architecture, and global curiosities.
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WINDOWS93
Chaotic browser-based parody operating system packed with retro apps, memes, fake desktop tools, games, and early-internet nostalgia experiments.
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your ai slop bores me
Viral multiplayer social experiment where humans pretend to be AI chatbots and answer prompts in real time as a playful protest against AI-generated content.
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Line Rider
Classic physics sandbox game where players draw sled tracks and create kinetic animations, stunts, and music-synced motion art.
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OldMapsOnline
Historical map search engine that lets users explore digitized old maps from libraries and archives across different time periods and regions.
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Running Reality
Interactive world history simulation that models civilizations, wars, trade, politics, and technological development across time.
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Zooniverse
Citizen science platform where volunteers help researchers classify galaxies, transcribe archives, identify wildlife, and analyze scientific data.
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Explorable Explanations
Curated collection of interactive essays and simulations that teach complex concepts through hands-on visual experimentation.
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Letters from the Future
Speculative interactive storytelling project presenting fictional future letters that explore climate, technology, politics, and society.
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The Fish Doorbell
Live-streamed Dutch canal project where viewers press a virtual doorbell to help migrating fish pass through a river lock.
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make yourself a cold coffee
Playful interactive web experience that guides users through making cold coffee using animated storytelling and tactile interactions.
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gradient.horse
Massive searchable collection of CSS gradients for designers and developers exploring color palettes, backgrounds, and visual inspiration.
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Same Energy
AI-powered visual search engine that finds aesthetically similar images based on mood, style, composition, and texture instead of keywords.
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tree.fm
Ambient nature platform that streams real forest soundscapes from around the world for relaxation, focus, meditation, and virtual nature immersion.
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City Walks Live
Virtual travel platform featuring immersive walking tours through cities worldwide using long-form street exploration videos and live-style travel experiences.
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Fields of The World
Open-source global agricultural field boundary mapping platform using satellite imagery and machine learning for crop monitoring, land-use analysis, and geospatial research.
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3DTuning
Interactive 3D car customization simulator where users can modify vehicles with body kits, wheels, paint, suspension, and tuning parts in real time.
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F4map Demo
Interactive WebGL-powered 3D map viewer built on OpenStreetMap data with realistic buildings, terrain, shadows, and city exploration.
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Messenger
Relaxing browser-based multiplayer delivery game where players explore a tiny stylized planet delivering messages in a beautifully crafted WebGL world.
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Metazooa
A daily animal guessing game that uses biological taxonomy to narrow down a mystery species.
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Tradle
A daily geography puzzle where players identify a country based on a treemap of its global export data.
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Geocities Gallery
A visual archive preserving the unique digital vernacular and design of the 1990s Geocities era.
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Mobile Phones Museum
A visual encyclopedia of mobile hardware history, featuring over 2,000 distinct devices.
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Intertapes
A digital preservation project featuring scanned media and audio from found VHS and cassettes.
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TheToyMaker
A collection of printable paper toys and vintage-inspired crafts for creative play.
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Every Noise at Once
An algorithmically-generated, interactive scatter-plot of thousands of music genres.
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Drive & Listen
An immersive experience combining 4K dashcam footage of world cities with local radio stations.
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MyRetroTV
A series of nostalgic simulators providing an authentic TV-viewing experience from past decades.
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Worldle
A daily geography game where players guess a country or territory based on its silhouette.
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Puzzle Prime
A hub for brain teasers, detective puzzles, and educational logic games for all ages.
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Origami.me
A dedicated resource for origami enthusiasts featuring diagrams, tutorials, and paper reviews.
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World Monitor
A real-time intelligence dashboard tracking global conflicts and geopolitical risks.
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Valdevia
Dude makes creepy art
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OpenGridWorks
An interactive global map of power infrastructure including operating plants, fiber cables, and transmission lines.
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Running Reality - Early Kolkata
A historical world model providing a high-fidelity geospatial timeline of Kolkata's early urban development.
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The Valley of Code
Structured web dev curriculum, free and no fluff.
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PZ Thinking Routines
Harvard's toolbox for structured thinking. Surprisingly practical.
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Untools
Mental models and thinking frameworks, one clean page each.
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MindTools
Dense but useful. Good reference when you need to get better at explaining things.
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AlternativeTo
Crowdsourced software alternatives. Beats Googling 'X but free.'
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TinyWow
Free AI + file tools. PDF, image, writing — no sign-up.
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MyMap.ai
Ideas that changed the world, mapped visually.
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Your Logical Fallacy Is
Every fallacy, named and explained. Bookmark it for arguments.
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Your Bias Is
24 cognitive biases with clean one-liners. Sister site to the above.
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Information Quotes — DGI
Data Governance Institute's quote bank. Good for framing ideas.
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The Information — Bookey
30 quotes from Gleick's The Information. Worth reading cold.
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Data Quotes — CareerFoundry
23 quotes on data. Some are actually good.
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Headline Formula List — Neil Patel
PDF. Every headline pattern worth knowing, in one place.
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Marketing Examples
Harry Dry's breakdowns. Short, specific, actually useful.
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Meta Ad Library
What's running in Kolkata right now. Good reality check on local copy.
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Ads of the World
Award-level campaigns, searchable. Kolkata filter bookmarked.
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AdEspresso Examples
Facebook ad examples, curated and categorised.
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Instapage Examples
110 landing pages with annotations. Good for structure ideas.
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Growth Archive
B2B growth marketing examples. What's working in the wild.
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Landingfolio
Landing page design inspiration. Best visual reference in this list.
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Welcome Email Examples
15 welcome emails worth studying. GetResponse's breakdown is solid.
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Really Good Emails
The email swipe file. Searchable by type, brand, and industry.
Deep Dive · N° II
Essays on Graphic Design
Seven canonical texts that shaped how designers think — and occasionally argue with each other across decades. The aesthetics are debatable. The ideas aren't.
Deep Dive · N° I
ASPI
Tracks which countries are winning the race for 64 critical technologies — with citations, not opinions. The data is open. The conclusions are uncomfortable.
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