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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Overtaking with a steam engine.
A Tribute to the Magnum Legend | Raghu Rai
Studies show that watching a beaver eat cabbage lowers stress by 17%
Calcutta, Darjeeling & Bihar (1947)
Life inside Extinction Rebellion: 'We can't get arrested quick enough'
Customer Development Process
Foundational lecture explaining customer development and startup validation through continuous user feedback.
"What are you gonna do? Shoot me?" Gets shot. Supercut/Compilation
The REAL REASON why cricket has three stumps | CRICKET EXPLAINED
The Secret of Steel
Muji – The Brand That Designed Nothing
How Muji's no-brand philosophy redefined Japanese consumer design.
How To Break Into the Startup Ecosystem
Practical advice on entering startup ecosystems through networking, projects, positioning, and skill-building.
[Official] Solitary Gourmet 1 Episode 1: Yakitori and Fried Rice in Monzen-nakacho
8019 m | The Closest You Can Go to Mt "Annapurna" Without Climbing it | Annapurna Base Camp
Best fan placement to move air through the house
The Cost of Concordia
Tomar Chokhe Chokh | Kabir Suman | Kolkata 1994 | Live
World Record Tyre Throw?
সিপিএমের একমাত্র বিধায়ক মুস্তাফিজুর রহমানের জীবন যেমন | @CPIMWESTBENGALONLINE
Pain Killers - Problem or Need
Classic startup framework explaining why products solving painful urgent problems outperform nice-to-have solutions.
How to buy a piece of land (in Portugal) #projectkamp
Bauls of Bengal
Soviet Army Dancing to Hard Bass [REMASTERED HD]
BEST CROISSANT IN PARIS
Jimmy's Gang Finally Meets Satan | 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE (Horror Clip)
Gaggan Anand: Fine Dining Scams, Toxic Hotels & His India Return | Table 1 with Vir Sanghvi
DELHI TO PUNE 1500 KMS NON STOP IN 27 HRS | KONKAN MAHARASHTRA SOLO RIDE EP-01 | BMW F850 GSA
Strategy
Educational startup strategy lecture covering positioning, competitive thinking, and business model fundamentals.
What Japan Understands About Branding No One Else Does
America's Iron Giants — The World's Most Powerful Metalworkers
Sikkim's Best kept Secret - Should we even post this?
Why the Dutch Government Has the Best Graphic Design
The Longest Tyre Roll in the World
What My Family Used to Watch in the Soviet Union
$6 Michelin Stock in 60 Minutes (Costco Hack)
Indian Premier League Cricket
Audio highlights — IPL's high-stakes drama.
Why Kerala Posters Feel Different from Tamil Nadu?
Miles with Mum - A bucket list road trip in a Volvo EX 30 | Autocar India
What My Family Used to Watch in the Soviet Union
Rare Color Video of Dr. B.R.Ambedkar's Exclusive Interview with BBC |HD|
Namchi Bazaar, an inspiration for every market in India
How I Created Two Billion-Dollar Fintech Companies
Founder case study on building Monzo and GoCardless through product iteration, timing, and execution discipline.
Two Greedy Italians - Silk handkerchief pasta with pesto, Mandilli di seta (HD)
40 Ton Humpback Whale Leaps Entirely Out of the Water! A Video by Craig Capehart
How Knowledge is Lost
The Oldest Settlements in South India: The Keeladi Excavations
Bauls of Bengal
ITALIAN MAFIAS RANKING
Why Göbekli Tepe Changes Human History Forever
Can Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal lift the FIFA World Cup ?
Riding to the World's Higest Monastery
A Journey to Nepal's Most Beautiful Trek | The Annapurna Base Camp
Lachung Beyond the Map — A Hidden Side of Sikkim
Stunning visuals of Sikkim's remote paradise.
Renaissance Technologies
Audio story of RenTech's quant trading revolution.
GATE 2: Tides of Conflict | Official Teaser
Edvard Munch: What A Cigarette Means
Curious Baby Seal Approaches Cameraman
The World's Oldest Buildings Iceberg | PART 1
Gaggan Anand: Fine Dining Scams, Toxic Hotels & His India Return | Table 1 with Vir Sanghvi
Muay Thai is Pain.
Extreme Tire Jumping Down A Mountain
Hardtalk India Jyoti Basu 18 8 1999
only delulu no solulu
I Built a Shockwave Cannon
Namchi Bazaar, an inspiration for every market in India
Syed Muzammil Shah |Fascism and Media| The Black Hole Islamabad| Full talk
Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio)
The Deadliest Design Mistakes in History
Engineering blunders that caused massive disasters.
Landscape Architecture is the Mother of All Arts | Ar Aniket Bhagwat
How one FMCG giant's complaint changed how IPL advertising works
Shooting San Francisco on Film - Road Trip pt. 2
TSMC (Remastered)
TSMC's semiconductor dominance — key to understanding AI supply chains.
The NFL
Deep dive into NFL's business empire.
YEAR ONE. Everything we built on our abandoned land
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30 Essays to Make You Love Biology
May 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.
Apr 2026
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.
31 Business Models
Visual reference guide explaining common startup and company business model structures across industries.
10 Essential Links For Testing Your Value Proposition & Business Models
Collection of startup validation resources for stress-testing customer demand, pricing, and business assumptions.
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
Virgilio
Open-source data science mentoring guide structured across beginner, intermediate, and advanced learning tracks to help anyone navigate machine learning without getting overwhelmed.
Brik Gallery
Curated gallery of AI-generated and interactive design tools and generative web creations, useful as a swipefile for designers and creative developers.
Google Dork Database
Comprehensive collection of pre-formatted Google search queries for locating individuals and data across 100+ platforms using OSINT methodology.
graphic.so
Collection of 30+ free browser-based generators for SVG backgrounds, gradients, blobs, patterns, and shapes with instant export to SVG, PNG, or CSS — no signup, no watermarks.
NaN Glyph Filters
Library of generative fonts built from open-source GlyphsApp scripts that algorithmically transform input typefaces into new outputs through glitch, beastly, broken-fax, and 25+ other effects.
Logggos
Curated catalog of well-crafted logos filterable by industry, typography style, color, and visual attributes — a searchable reference for logo research and branding inspiration.
Extraset
Independent Swiss type foundry offering original typefaces — from sharp grotesks to expressive display cuts — available for individual purchase with student discounts.
Studio Feixen Fonts
Experimental variable typefaces by Studio Feixen emphasizing motion design, including Mov Variable — a font that animates letters through adjustable axes — alongside display types like Ease and Noi Grotesk.
Drop The Adverb
Writing tool that helps authors replace weak verb-and-adverb combinations with stronger, more precise alternatives, organized by action category with paste-and-analyze functionality.
You and Your Research
A legendary talk on doing great work through long-term curiosity, problem selection, courage, and independent thinking.
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The Map Is Not the Territory
Explains how models, abstractions, and beliefs are simplified representations of reality rather than reality itself.
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The Machine Stops
A prophetic 1909 sci-fi story about technological dependence, isolation, algorithmic mediation, and civilizational collapse.
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How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
Examines how online platforms push people to constantly package identity, creativity, and life into monetizable content.
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The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
Contrasts open information streams with carefully curated knowledge gardens as two modes of consuming information online.
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Meditations on Moloch
Explores how competition, coordination failure, and incentive systems push societies toward destructive outcomes.
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The Californian Ideology
Critiques Silicon Valley’s fusion of libertarianism, techno-utopianism, counterculture, and neoliberal economics.
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The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Argues that informal groups without explicit structure often create hidden power hierarchies instead of true equality.
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Appreciation Over Aspiration: A $600B Shift
Discusses the cultural and economic movement from aspirational consumption toward appreciation, ownership, and meaning.
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If you're still thinking like a software engineer...
A short reflection on shifting from pure engineering execution toward systems thinking and business leverage.
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How to Research Anything
A practical framework for investigating unfamiliar topics using layered reading, synthesis, and iterative curiosity.
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What Is Code?
A sprawling interactive essay explaining software, programming culture, and the hidden systems running modern life.
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The Bitter Lesson
Argues that scalable computation and general methods consistently outperform handcrafted human-designed AI systems over time.
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Some excerpts from Nandy’s “The Intimate Enemy”
Reflections on colonialism’s psychological effects and how empires reshape identity, masculinity, and self-perception.
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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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Moral luck ....Two people drive drunk at night: one kills a pedestrian, one doesn’t. Does the unlucky killer deserve more blame or not?
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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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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China's AI Optimism Isn't What It Seems
What looks like Chinese enthusiasm for AI actually masks deep economic anxiety rooted in memories of 1990s mass layoffs, reframing it as desperate adaptation rather than genuine optimism.
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Project Glasswing: An initial update
Anthropic's AI-powered security initiative found over 10,000 high-severity vulnerabilities in critical software in its first month, revealing that finding flaws has become trivial while patching remains the bottleneck.
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Party in the Permanent Underclass
Explores why China experiences less visible panic than the US about AI-driven job displacement, arguing that policy intervention is necessary rather than relying on market-led optimism.
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The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML — examples
Showcases 20 self-contained HTML files demonstrating that HTML's native interactivity, spatial layout, and rendering make it far more expressive than markdown for AI-generated documents.
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Multi-Agent Reliability Math: Why Chaining 5 Agents Drops Success Rate to 77%
Shows mathematically how chaining five 95%-reliable AI agents produces only 77% system success rate, and outlines mitigations including retry logic and parallel processing.
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What Is the Reliability Compounding Problem in AI Agent Stacks?
Explains how sequential AI agent components multiply failure rates, advocating for shorter critical paths and smart retries to maintain system reliability.
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I design with Claude more than Figma now
A Jane Street designer describes how AI assistance shifted his workflow from wireframes and specs to building real prototype features directly, enabling immediate testing without engineering back-and-forth.
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How to Enter Side Doors
Argues that careers are built through unconventional pathways — direct outreach, public work, and solving unposted problems — rather than formal job listings, by treating a job as a bundle of problems someone needs solved.
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The Old World Is Dying
Rather than mourning outdated institutional structures, young graduates should embrace disruption by building interpersonal skills, tacit knowledge, and flexibility to thrive in an era of AI-driven transformation.
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Clocked Out
Challenges pure anti-work cynicism by arguing that mission-driven workers find genuine fulfillment despite systemic constraints, proposing Elizabeth Anderson's 'progressive work ethic' as a constructive alternative to Graeber's 'bullshit jobs' thesis.
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David Lynch Keeps His Head
Wallace's immersive on-set essay about Lost Highway argues that Lynch's singular power lies in penetrating viewers' psychological defenses rather than offering conventional narrative or moral resolution.
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Chesterton's Fence: A Lesson in Second-Order Thinking
Before removing or changing anything, you must first understand why it exists — a principle for approaching existing systems with humility rather than assuming they can be safely discarded.
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A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
History blog by a classicist examining ancient military systems, pre-modern societies, and how popular culture misrepresents the past — especially in fiction and games.
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The Red Queen Effect: Avoid Running Faster to Stay in the Same Place
Staying competitive requires continuous improvement just to maintain relative position, because competitors adapt simultaneously — strategic innovation, not harder work, is the only path to actually advancing.
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The Future of Human Agency
Pew Research survey of experts reveals a near-even split on whether AI will preserve human decision-making autonomy by 2035, with most acknowledging unprecedented opportunities and serious risks for agency.
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
A short story presenting a utopian city whose endless happiness rests on the deliberate suffering of one child — a thought experiment forcing the reader to confront the ethics of collective prosperity built on individual sacrifice.
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The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
An allegorical short story arguing that human aging — like the dragon demanding sacrificial victims — is an accepted atrocity that civilization should urgently mobilize to defeat through longevity research.
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Being basic as a virtue
Argues that working in Silicon Valley's idea economy is exhausting intellectual labor, and that 'being basic' — stepping back from constant ideation — functions as a coping mechanism and potential status signal of genuine freedom.
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What will be scarce?
As AI commoditizes production and abundance rises, economic demand will shift toward relational goods — care, craftsmanship, services where human presence is integral to value — preventing mass unemployment despite automation.
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After Automation
AI automation doesn't eliminate expert work — it commoditizes routine competence, which paradoxically increases demand for human judgment and specialized expertise to differentiate outputs in novel situations.
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I, Pencil
Classic economic essay narrated by a pencil arguing that no single person possesses all the knowledge to manufacture even simple objects — markets coordinate spontaneous cooperation through price signals better than central planning.
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The Egg
A short story in which God reveals that every human throughout history is the same soul experiencing all lives sequentially, and existence is a maturation process toward something greater.
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Reality has a surprising amount of detail
Reality contains far more meaningful complexity than initially apparent, causing people to become intellectually stuck because important insights are invisible until suddenly obvious — and we can't anticipate what we're missing.
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The Last Question
Asimov's story spanning trillions of years as successively greater supercomputers are asked whether entropy can be reversed — each responding 'insufficient data' until the final cosmic mind achieves the answer at the end of existence.
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The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy.
As AI handles analysis and summarization, professionals will shift from making knowledge to managing AI resources — fundamentally transforming what expertise means and how economic value is created.
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The Judgment of Dungara
A missionary's attempt to convert the Buria Kol people to Christianity is subverted when a local priest provides stinging nettle fiber for the converts' new clothes, which the villagers interpret as divine retribution from their god Dungara.
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The Dialogue of the Dogs
From Cervantes' Exemplary Novels — a philosophical dialogue between two hospital dogs, Scipio and Berganze, who discuss their observations of human society, hypocrisy, and the absurdities of everyday life in 17th-century Spain.
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River at the Heart of the World
Documents how the Pemakö region — a sacred Tibetan Buddhist hidden land on the India-China border — faces existential threats from hydroelectric dams and highways endangering both its ecosystem and centuries-old spiritual significance.
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Living in an Alive World
Argues that practicing 'soft eyes' and deep listening can expand perception beyond human defaults, enabling us to recognize animals, plants, and landscapes as sentient participants — a shift in awareness essential for meaningful survival.
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Searchcode
Search source code snippets across public repositories.
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BoardReader
Search forum discussions and community conversations across the web.
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RefSeek
Academic search engine for students, researchers and scholarly resources.
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PDF Drive
Search and access millions of PDF books and documents.
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BASE
Search academic papers from open-access repositories worldwide.
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Icons8
Search icons, illustrations, photos and design assets.
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Wayback Machine
Browse archived versions of websites from different points in time.
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Unsplash
High-quality royalty-free stock photography search platform.
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Project Euclid
Mathematics and statistics research paper database.
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DBLP
Computer science bibliography and publication search engine.
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ERIC
Education research database with reports, papers and studies.
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MetaGer
Privacy-focused metasearch engine with anonymous queries.
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PubChem
Search chemical compounds, molecules and substance data.
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ClinicalTrials.gov
Global database of clinical research studies and trials.
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Project Gutenberg
Free ebook and public domain literature archive.
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ccMixter
Search royalty-free music and remix tracks for creative projects.
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Radio Browser
Search online radio stations from around the world.
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Internet Archive
Massive archive of websites, books, videos and digital media.
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Packagist
Search PHP packages and open-source libraries.
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npm
JavaScript package registry for libraries and developer tools.
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Crates.io
Rust programming language package and dependency registry.
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SearX Space
Directory of privacy-friendly metasearch engine instances.
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Wolfram Alpha
Computational knowledge engine for factual and mathematical queries.
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Dogpile
Aggregates results from multiple search engines.
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TinyPNG
Compress PNG and JPEG images for faster loading.
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Million Short
Alternative search engine that removes top popular sites from results.
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Freesound
Search sound effects and audio samples by similarity.
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Ascii2D
Reverse image search engine focused on anime artwork.
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Browserling
Test and preview websites across multiple browsers online.
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Keyword Tool
Generate keyword ideas from Google, YouTube and other platforms.
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SlidePlayer
Search presentation slides from uploaded documents and decks.
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Issuu
Search digital magazines, catalogs and online publications.
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PyPI
Python package index for libraries and developer tools.
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DocPlayer
Search manuals, guides and uploaded document archives.
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Earth Nullschool
Animated real-time global wind, weather and ocean current visualization.
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MarineTraffic
Track ships, ports and maritime movement worldwide in real time.
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Mempool Space
Monitor pending Bitcoin transactions, blocks and network activity.
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Flightradar24
Live map of commercial and private aircraft around the world.
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Kaspersky Cybermap
Visualizes live cyberattack activity and threat detections globally.
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NETC Radiation Map
Displays live nuclear radiation monitoring data from global sensors.
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IQAir Earth
Interactive global air quality and pollution tracking map.
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Global Fishing Watch
Tracks commercial fishing vessel activity using satellite data.
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GlobalQuake
Real-time earthquake detection and seismic monitoring platform.
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Global Forest Watch
Satellite-powered forest loss and deforestation monitoring system.
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Climate TRACE
Tracks greenhouse gas emissions using AI and satellite analysis.
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Earthquake Track
Shows recent earthquakes worldwide as they happen.
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OpenSky Network
Open aviation data platform with live global air traffic tracking.
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BGS Geomagnetism
Live readings and monitoring of Earth’s magnetic field.
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Observe Earth
Tracks global conflicts, outbreaks, disasters and economic disruptions.
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NASA Worldview
Interactive NASA satellite imagery and Earth observation platform.
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ACLED
Conflict, protest and political violence event tracking database.
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Global Incident Map Outbreaks
Maps disease outbreaks and epidemic incidents globally.
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The World Now
Live globe showing disasters, wars and major global incidents.
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ISS Tracker
Track the International Space Station in real time.
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Dead Drops
Map of hidden offline USB data-sharing dead drops worldwide.
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CO2 Earth
Tracks atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration levels.
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NASA Ocean Color
Ocean chlorophyll, temperature and marine ecosystem satellite data.
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ADS-B Exchange Globe
Unfiltered live aircraft tracking including military flights.
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Tide Forecast
Real-time tide forecasts and coastal water level information.
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Wikimedia Statistics
Live statistics and edit activity across Wikimedia projects.
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NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
Solar flare alerts, geomagnetic storms and space weather forecasts.
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Internet Live Stats
Tracks live internet usage, traffic and digital activity metrics.
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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.
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Loot Drop
Database of 1,600+ actionable business concepts derived from 1,200+ failed startups, with failure case studies, industry analysis, and rebuild plans.
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Birdcall
Online community hub with integrated library, classroom, wiki, and Discord space for collaborative learning and knowledge sharing.
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Inventory Press
Independent publisher specializing in art, design, music, and film books — from artist monographs to critical anthologies on contemporary visual culture.
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Are.na Editorial
Publishing platform featuring essays, interviews, and long-form writing by and about the Are.na community of researchers, designers, and creative practitioners.
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Onomatopee
Eindhoven-based creative organization combining an exhibition venue, independent publishing house, and RISO printing workshop — a multifunctional space for contemporary art and experimental print culture.
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Good Good Good
Positive news platform and monthly newspaper curating stories of progress on climate, justice, and mental health, alongside actionable guides for community engagement.
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Sunday Club
Monthly print newspaper featuring curated puzzles, crosswords, and games with no news — designed for offline, screen-free entertainment.
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History Nation
Social community for history enthusiasts featuring discussion forums, member blogs, photo galleries, and video content for sharing and exploring historical narratives worldwide.
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Book Marks
Book review aggregator compiling critical responses from major publications, displaying sentiment across rave, positive, mixed, and pan ratings for quick discovery of literary consensus.
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The Evolution of Trust
Interactive game theory simulation by Nicky Case exploring how trust, cooperation, and betrayal evolve through strategic encounters — an accessible playable introduction to iterated prisoner's dilemmas.
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Parable of the Polygons
Interactive playable essay by Vi Hart and Nicky Case demonstrating how small individual biases compound into large-scale societal segregation, and how demanding diversity actively counteracts it.
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Chronophoto
Photo-guessing game where players identify the decade or year a photograph was taken, available in single-player, daily challenge, and multiplayer party modes.
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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How to read erros - Scrolly
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Literary Devices
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Color Palettes i like
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Github Pages Swipefile
Curated GitHub Pages, portfolios, personal sites, and landing pages. A swipefile for studying layouts, navigation, storytelling, and project presentation patterns.
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Prompt library swipefile
A curated map of the prompt ecosystem — sorted by actual use-case instead of random link dumping.
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Interesting Claude Skills & Other GitHub Repos
Curated list of Claude Code skills and useful GitHub repositories.
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Swipefile of design portfolios
A curated collection of standout design, product, and personal portfolios. Study layouts, storytelling, typography, interactions, case-study structure, and personal branding patterns.
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businesses that can leverage the ikea effect
A collection of businesses that have figured out how to leverage the IKEA Effect
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companies that found USP
A collection of memorable USPs and competitive moats.
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companies that has cracked UGC + 10 lessons
A collection of companies that turned customers into marketers. Study how brands like Apple, Tesla, Royal Enfield, Red Bull, and GoPro engineered identity, status, and community to unlock powerful user-generated content.
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Tierlist of best sunday suspense episodes
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brown's list of human universals
Brown's list of human universal turned into a Tierlist
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BMC Swipefile
List of Business Model Canvas examples, case studies, and walkthroughs for learning business-model patterns through real companies.
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Good bets vs Bad bets
collection of pivotal business bets where one company correctly identified the future and another defended the past
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