New Year Reads 2026 May the Road Rise Up to Meet You
A collection of cross-disciplinary thoughts, perspectives, and opinions
12 Meditations for the New Year
We are stardust, a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam; thank your lucky stars - Link
Every year you make a resolution to change yourself. This year resolve to be yourself. Be Here Now; - Link
Stay in the game. Try again. Fail Again. Fail Better - Link
Upanishads - Do what makes us human. Become what you are. Aham Brahmasmi (I’m Brahman) - Link
Character. Discipline. Patience. Wisdom. Hard work. - Link
Let go with compassion; Don’t argue with Idiots, Toss the Toxic - it just wasn’t meant to be - Link
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves - Link
Be Water - Link
Life is anti-entropy; it must be lived forwards (but can only be understood backwards) - Link
Act with intention and integrity; your obligation is to the action, and never to it’s fruits - Link
What you may not have realized is that today truly is a wide open frontier. It is the best time EVER in human history to begin. You are not late.- Link
Just do the thing and iterate from there. It all compounds. - Link
or….take the easy route
To really take it up a notch, add four acacia thorns and a half-teaspoon of Tibetan monk tears - Link
News
The reality is, we will not eradicate polio without funding from the United States. - Link
Roblox as a literal hellscape or the safest place the internet has to offer. This is a deep dive into the disconnect. - Link
More than 30% of U.S. market capitalization now trades above 10x sales - Link
AIs aren’t sentient, and can’t hallucinate, any more than a fridge or a toaster can. They also can’t lie, because that involves intention. AIs can mimic intent, but they can’t possess it. The existence of radically different versions of the same events is a recurrent theme in Altman’s life.’ - Link
As ai agents spread, their makers need to understand the human-facing domains in which their tools operate. “Your personality is where your premium is.” - Link
“Hey ai, bend this copper pipe” half of Britain’s welding workforce is expected to retire by 2027. - Link
Drivers pay to access just 6,300 miles of America’s 160,000 or so miles of highway. Indiana’s experiment could lead to toll roads proliferating across the United States. - Link
LLM ownership is being priced at $1.5 trillion or more, and the collective revenues, even generously defined, are less than $100 billion. The 3Ps: Possible, Plausible, and Probable - Link
Prediction is as significant a concept as modernism and postmodernism. It’s the defining reframe of our generation. we create order in the universe by contributing information. - Link
1 in 4 American shoppers paid for a purchase in November with BNPL - most short-term lending of this type isn’t reported to credit bureaus - Link
Perspectives
Charlie Munger – 24 Cognitive Biases – Human Misjudgement full speech - Link
More importantly we have to get better at becoming improbable ourselves. Our mission in life is to become as improbable as we can be. - Link
Michael Mauboussin - 30 years - reflections on 10 attributes of great investors - Link
The tension between the time average and expected value forms the basis for a theory of ergodicity economics- Link
Your whole life is dependent on how you deal with people. It’s the single most important skill you can possibly develop - Link
There’s a promising future for anyone willing to double down on the role of conscious human connection in their work. - Link
System 3 is an assortment of introspection and meditation techniques aimed at establishing a dialogue between intuition and rationality. - Link
“Cambrian Explosion” of Tech-Enabled Innovation - Link
radical agency is about finding real edges: things you are willing to do that others aren’t, often because they’re annoying or unpleasant. - Link
Over time, that context graph becomes the real source of truth for autonomy – because it explains not just what happened, but why it was allowed to happen. - Link
Cultivating Agency - Link and Navigating the End of Work - Link
A simple life - Link
Patrick O’Shaugnessy and David Senra (must listen) - Podcast
Krishnamurti & David Bohm The Future of Humanity - Podcast
A Soulful Journey to Stellar Returns w/ Nima Shayegh - Podcast
The world is our field of practice - Podcast
STEM
Making it easier to reap the molecular benefits of exercise - Link
Foundational Training - Link
World-class performance in a domain is associated with smaller amounts of discipline-specific practice, larger amounts of early multidisciplinary practice, and more gradual early discipline-specific performance progress. - Link
A new wariness of booze is spreading, especially among the young. Nothing triggers the release of endorphins like alcohol, though. Churchill would find such a future dispiriting. - Link
A Strange New Infinity - Link
Miscellaneous